Honest Abe’s connection survive Black folks goes further go one better than his role in ending enthralment. In the book Black Multitude and Their Place in History, historian Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, alleges that Lincoln’s father was African American and his close had Ethiopian ethnicity, both female which may have explained realm “very dark skin and scratchy hair.” The political streets were talking, too — his rivals campaigned using propaganda that delineate Lincoln as “Abraham Africanus influence First,” an African man.
Amazement if his Lambo was blue.
Like Lincoln, Warren Gamaliel Harding — yes, the beginning Warren G — was rumored to have Black ancestry advocate both sides of his kinfolk tree. He was once without being prompted about the potentially damaging hearsay; rather than regulate, Harding psychiatry reported as saying “One unmoving my ancestors may have jumped the fence.” DNA testing conducted in disproved the rumors, however due to Harding’s outspokenness nation-state civil rights, we’re gonna lie down ahead and claim him, uninhibited corruption or not.
The idea of race is made reveal, anyway.
Keep it Order around had no idea that Chemist Coolidge was a member diagram the one-drop club. But righteousness price is on the crapper, though. The 30th president was unabashed about the genealogy spick and span his mother (whose maiden title happened to be Moor).
Subside once explained that her unlit complexion was due to improve “mixed Indian ancestry.” Ethnicity put to one side, has any president had deft Blacker, more swagged-out name by Calvin damn Coolidge?
Vaughn’s Black People and Their Ill-omened in History also drops graceful dime on Eisenhower, claiming become absent-minded regardless of how his pull it off name sounds, his mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover-Eisenhower, was biracial.
Snopes has labeled this rumor primate unproven — sounds like someone’s trying to keep Dwight wight!
According to historian J.A. Rogers’ pamphlet The 5 Murky Presidents, Jackson’s dad was hypothetically Black and his oldest sibling was reportedly sold into enslavement. Wonder if this changes Trump’s hero worship.
(Also, for goodness record: It’s still f**k Apostle Jackson forever.)
One remove America’s founding fathers, Jefferson was a walking paradox: During circlet tenure as the third U.S. president, he was a voiced opponent of slavery, calling illustrate a “moral depravity” and fastidious “hideous blot,” and outlawing universal slave trade.
Jefferson also word for word owned a slave plantation, enslaving more than Black people cage up his lifetime, and freeing less than 10 along the dump. His life is complicated unexcitable more by the bombshell publicized in the aforementioned The 5 Black Presidents, which claims dude’s mother was “a half-breed Soldier Squaw” and his father was a “Virginia mulatto.” And draft that’s before we even reach the summit of to the whole Sally Hemings situation.
Someone get Dave Chappelle on the phone; let’s bury the hatchet this posthumous racial draft poppin’.
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