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Is Barack Obama really the first African - American president?

He is not African - American which means someone with slavery descent but don't know exactly which country so they say African - American. He is Kenyan - American because he knows his fathers African side (Kenyan) and he is American because he was born in America. He is also biracial the first biracial 50/50 president, the first African American presidents passed already like..... Vaughn's research shows Jefferson was not the only former black U.S. president. Who were the others? Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. But why was this unknown? How were they elected president? All five of these presidents never acknowledged their black ancestry. Jefferson, who served two terms between 1801 and 1809, 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. President Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, was in office between 1829 and 1837. Vaughn cites an article written in The Virginia Magazine of History that Jackson was the son of an Irish woman who married a black man. The magazine also stated that Jackson's oldest brother had been sold as a slave. Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, served between 1861 and 1865. Lincoln was said to have been the illegitimate son of an African man, according to Leroy's findings. Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents. President Warren Harding, the 29th president, in office between 1921 and 1923, apparently never denied his ancestry. According to Vaughn, 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 College, a school founded to educate fugitive slaves. DO YOU AGREE? Barack Obama is the first BIRACIAL 50/50 president but not African - American president like the ones above? I am Sudanese - American not African - American, Barack is Kenyan - American not African - American because we both know where our ancestors come from Africa is a continent not a country so since you don't know exactly which nation y'all come from you people say African - American, but since we do we're Sudanese - American/Kenyan - American. Do you understand now?

Public Comments

1. he's the first BIRACIAL president. not black or african-american or white. BIRACIAL.
2. Whoever said African-American means descended from slaves? And who is "Vaughn?" I have quickly tried to validate a few of your claims, and they appear to be nonsense. Please provide sources.
3. ok first of all african american does not equal slavery decent. if there's some black then you're black so regardless to how you want to put it, he is the first black president. get over it. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AukoisHR2bYl6VmlZ62t1ffsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090914072611AAbER72
4. no,he is biracial.
5. He himself identifies himself as Black. His father is Africa, so he is African-American. EDIT: No, anyone from Africa in America is Africa-America, it's just that people have choose to state that anyone in the current time from Africa cannot be African-American. Sounds to me like a plot? but what?
6. 1) I agree with your first point that Obama is more Kenyan-American than African-American; but as far as race is concerned in the U.S., his origins are irrelevant, he was born & raised in the U.S. 2) Saying Obama is bi-racial, after some 370 years of saying that anyone who was even 1/8th Black in the U.S. was fully Black seems like a cop-out meant to take advantage of a shifting political current. Obama is Black, if he was born just 50 years ago, he might have been lynched 3) Although it is true that other president have had some Black blood, it was extremely difficult for people to tell that they did, and because genetics hadn't been developed at the time, there was only a small extent to which the 1 drop rule could be enforced EDIT: Not all Blacks Americans are descendants of slaves
7. Thank you for the info.. i mean that seriously SteveC
8. All that you typed about nothing. What does it matter what race he his? His skin color is not white enough to be called white anyway. He calls himself black anyway and so does majority of everybody else.
9. he's the first kenyan & irish president
10. I have seen this before. Bottom line is until Black people create a sovereign land with their own institutions where the needs and concerns specific to Black people are addressed and everything in this land is beneficial to Black people specifically, whether we are talking about John Hanson or whomever all we are talking about is Black faces( an that is questionable) representing White institutions. Therefore the question of a first African American president or and African American president period becomes irrelevant. Also about the former Presidents you mentioned I'll just say this; does one drop of coffee in a glass of milk make it coffee? I think not...
11. if you go far back enough you would find everyone if not most have African ancestry