If elected Barack Obama won't be the 1st Black U.S. President??!!

The moment Barack Obama announced he was running for President the media and a majority of fellow Americans have focused on his ethnicity rather than what this man had to offer this country, which didn’t come as a surprise. Questions like “Is this Country ready for a Black President?” echoed from coast to coast. Well, apparently we’ve been there and done that! According to this article I stumbled upon, if elected, Barack won’t be the first Black U.S. President (and no I’m not talking about Bill Clinton either). I learned about Warren Harding in college, so I was expecting to find a lengthy article about him. I was in disbelief when he was accompanied by 4 other U.S. Presidents who are said to all have black ancestry:







Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President, was the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father."







Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. President, was "the son of an Irish woman who married a black man." (His older brother was reportedly sold into slavery.)







Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth U.S. President, had dark skin, course hair, and a heritage that included Melungeon or African ancestors. Hussein writes that "His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents."







Warren Harding, the twenty-ninth U.S. President, never denied his African heritage, and reportedly had black ancestors on both sides of his family; it is also said that Harding attended a school that was founded to educate fugitive slaves.






Calvin Coolidge, the thirteenth U.S. President, was found to have African and possibly Native American heritage as well.

Although if you saw, dare I say, these “brothas” (lol) on the street they’d be regarded as white men but at the end of the day they were white men with black blood running through their veins. But if you really want to take it there, who doesn't??? That's a whole different story, a whole different blog.


This information really makes no difference to me nor do I feel a sense of pride because none of these Presidents dared to acknowledge the fact or could identify with what it meant or how it felt to be a black man. So in my eyes, if Barack wins this election I will refer to him as the first Black President. But according to this article, he wouldn’t be the 1st but the 6th. There you have it.