The United States’ Black Presidents Prior
to Barack Obama
By Mal’akiy 17 Allah
John Hanson, late 1850's
Was Barak Obama really the first Black President of the United States of America? That is what the mainstream media has been pushing since his 2008 selection to the Oval Office. However, some historians note that there were at least six previous U.S. Presidents of African ancestry.
During this country’s imperialistic infancy many European slave-makers raped their enslaved African women resulting in their DNA being diluted by their Caucasian colonizers. This was a common theme throughout the African holocaust. At this time the “one-drop” rule was in effect. Meaning that anyone with as little as one-fourth African blood lineage would still legally be classified as Caucasian, thus allowing them to be more socially accepted. As time went on the ratio dropped to one-eighth, and then less.
Famed historian, J.A. Rogers’ penned a literary piece titled, “The 5 Black Presidents” in 1965, and detailed how the U.S.’ third president, Thomas Jefferson’s (1801-1809), his father, Peter Jefferson, was a “Virginia mulatto”, and his mother, Jane Randolph-Jefferson, was “a half-breed Indian Squaw”.
He notes that the U.S.’ seventh president, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), “was the son of a [Caucasian] woman [Elizabeth] from Ireland who had intermarried with a [Black man],” Rogers reveals. He also noted how Jackson’s eldest brother “had been sold into slavery in North Carolina”. Meaning he must’ve had Black features in order to be able to be in that situation.
This country’s 16th Commander In Chief, Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), is most known for abolishing physical slavery on paper, yet his dominant DNA may have motivated him to do so. “He had very dark skin and coarse hair, and his mother [Nancy Hanks] came from an Ethiopian tribe, and his father was an African-American,” explains author, Dr. Leroy Vaughn, in his 2001 book, ‘Black People and Their Place in History.’ “His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed ‘Abraham Africanus the First,’ and cartoons were drawn depicting him as an African.”
The 29th President, Warren Harding (1921-23), was often asked about his heritage, and one time when pressed by political oppositions in public about it, he responded, “How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence?”
Rogers notes that “Harding had Black ancestors between both sets of parents. He had a mulatto father [George] and a Black great-grandmother; and got his only academic degree from Iberia College,” which was “founded to educate fugitive slaves.”
The very next President, Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), blurred no lines and openly admitted his genealogy. One time he boasted that “his mother, Victoria Moor, was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry,” Dr. Vaughn reveals. “They said she had fair complexion with a ‘rich growth’ of brown hair.”
Many critics of the 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), had suspicions. “The rumor was his dad was mixed, coming out of Africa, but his mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover-Eisenhower, was mulatto,” indicated Dr. Vaughn. “He was the first President to elevate an African-American to an executive position in the White House.”
Prior to the United States formerly being established, a man named John Hanson was president of the Continental Congress from 1781-82, which was actually the nation’s first operating government, which came about after the American Revolution. However, this occurred prior to the United States Constitution being established, therefore excluding Hanson as the first U.S. President.
Furthermore, the Maryland native was actually Caucasian, yet, he is often confused with John Hanson, the Black Senator from almost four decades later, who assisted the American Colonization Society relocate Americanized-Africans to Liberia.
There’s also false rumors that the Black President Hanson appears on the back of the United States’ two-dollar bill, however, thorough research reveals that the shadowy figure in the portrait reproduced on the currency is actually that of a Caucasian named Thomas Heyward Jr.
During this country’s imperialistic infancy many European slave-makers raped their enslaved African women resulting in their DNA being diluted by their Caucasian colonizers. This was a common theme throughout the African holocaust. At this time the “one-drop” rule was in effect. Meaning that anyone with as little as one-fourth African blood lineage would still legally be classified as Caucasian, thus allowing them to be more socially accepted. As time went on the ratio dropped to one-eighth, and then less.
Famed historian, J.A. Rogers’ penned a literary piece titled, “The 5 Black Presidents” in 1965, and detailed how the U.S.’ third president, Thomas Jefferson’s (1801-1809), his father, Peter Jefferson, was a “Virginia mulatto”, and his mother, Jane Randolph-Jefferson, was “a half-breed Indian Squaw”.
He notes that the U.S.’ seventh president, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), “was the son of a [Caucasian] woman [Elizabeth] from Ireland who had intermarried with a [Black man],” Rogers reveals. He also noted how Jackson’s eldest brother “had been sold into slavery in North Carolina”. Meaning he must’ve had Black features in order to be able to be in that situation.
This country’s 16th Commander In Chief, Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), is most known for abolishing physical slavery on paper, yet his dominant DNA may have motivated him to do so. “He had very dark skin and coarse hair, and his mother [Nancy Hanks] came from an Ethiopian tribe, and his father was an African-American,” explains author, Dr. Leroy Vaughn, in his 2001 book, ‘Black People and Their Place in History.’ “His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed ‘Abraham Africanus the First,’ and cartoons were drawn depicting him as an African.”
The 29th President, Warren Harding (1921-23), was often asked about his heritage, and one time when pressed by political oppositions in public about it, he responded, “How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence?”
Rogers notes that “Harding had Black ancestors between both sets of parents. He had a mulatto father [George] and a Black great-grandmother; and got his only academic degree from Iberia College,” which was “founded to educate fugitive slaves.”
The very next President, Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), blurred no lines and openly admitted his genealogy. One time he boasted that “his mother, Victoria Moor, was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry,” Dr. Vaughn reveals. “They said she had fair complexion with a ‘rich growth’ of brown hair.”
Many critics of the 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), had suspicions. “The rumor was his dad was mixed, coming out of Africa, but his mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover-Eisenhower, was mulatto,” indicated Dr. Vaughn. “He was the first President to elevate an African-American to an executive position in the White House.”
Prior to the United States formerly being established, a man named John Hanson was president of the Continental Congress from 1781-82, which was actually the nation’s first operating government, which came about after the American Revolution. However, this occurred prior to the United States Constitution being established, therefore excluding Hanson as the first U.S. President.
Furthermore, the Maryland native was actually Caucasian, yet, he is often confused with John Hanson, the Black Senator from almost four decades later, who assisted the American Colonization Society relocate Americanized-Africans to Liberia.
There’s also false rumors that the Black President Hanson appears on the back of the United States’ two-dollar bill, however, thorough research reveals that the shadowy figure in the portrait reproduced on the currency is actually that of a Caucasian named Thomas Heyward Jr.
