For the first time in US history, a black man is a viable candidate for president and black people vote for him. I struggle to not make a sarcastic comment. A vote for a leader is far different than weighing in on a jury and I pray for you if you really believe that all six randomly chosen black people would condemn a non-black man without adequate evidence provided by the state.
Although, not long ago, if not today, white people condemn black people without adequate evidence, so maybe you are right and I should pray for us all.
Far from the “first”.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was described as the “son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father,” as stated in Vaughn’s findings. Jefferson also was said to have destroyed all documentation attached to his mother, even going to extremes to seize letters written by his mother to other people.
- Warren Harding
William Chancellor, a professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy. Evidently, Harding had Black ancestors between both sets of parents. Chancellor also said that Harding attended Iberia
- Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in Waxha, South Carolina and died June 8th 1845.
Jackson is best know as the 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and also served two terms. He served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Other accomplishments was that he ran the British out of New Orleans in 1815, governed Florida territory from 1821-23, was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Tennessee legislature in 1823 just to name a couple of accomplishments during his lifetime.
Another part of his life that people may not know is that he was the son of a White woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a black man. There is also written literature of the time that stated that he a brother that was also sold into slavery.
- Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12th February 1809 in or around Hodgenville, Kentucky and died on 15 April 1865 because he was assassinated with a gun.
Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States and is best know for writing the Gettysburg Address and freeing Confederate slaves with the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He also served in the Illinois General Assembly for eight years and in the U.S. House of Representatives for one term before his election as the nation’s first Republican president.
We are told of his childhood that he was born in a log cabin and self educated himself by reading books and working himself by laboring splitting fences, then becoming as a country lawyer, to what he is best known for as his presidency.
What other facts about his ancestry that he is not known for is there are written publications that described Lincoln as very dark skinned and that he had coarse hair. He was known to have had a mother of “Ethiopian” ancestry and a father that was also of African decent but was not there during his childhood to raise him. During the times that he was president, there are also many cartoons that depicted Lincoln as a stereotypical “black man” and gave him racial nick names.
- Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge was born July 4th 1892 in Plymouth, Vermont. born: 4 July 1872. He was the 30th president of the United States. He is know for taking over the office as president after Warren Harding suddenly died from a heart attack and was sworn in by his own father in Vermont at 2:47 a.m. who was a notary public at the time. Before his time in the White House, he was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts and was recognized nationally for settling the Boston police strike in 1919 and also was known to have kept a low profile in the White House. He declined to run for re-election in 1928, and was followed by fellow Republican Herbert Hoover. Another maybe unknown speculation about him was that he may have had Indian as well as African ancestry from his mother.
I can see your point. However, I don’t think it applies in this case. TM had the advantage over GZ. Claiming you are in fear of your life when the only person with injuries is the other person seems rather fishy to say the least.
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