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A historian says Dwight Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, was black. She is shown here with David J. Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower's father, on their wedding day, Sept. 23, 1888.
If Sen. Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination for president and goes on to win the White House, he would be the seventh, not the first black man to occupy the oval office, according to three black historians whose work to uncover the racial backgrounds of U.S. presidents has been largely ignored until now.
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Rodgers, who died in 1966, wrote the book The Five Black Presidents, and Dr. Vaughn devotes a chapter to the five black presidents in his Black People and Their Place in World History. Rogers and Vaughn agree Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Harding and Coolidge had black ancestors.
Dr. Auset Bakhufu, author of The Six Black Presidents' Black Blood: White Masks includes Eisenhower.
Despite author Toni Morrison's 1998 New Yorker magazine article that claims Bill Clinton is the nation's first black president because of his womanizing and frequenting McDonald's restaurants, Clinton is not listed. -
I thought this was interesting, It is amazing these men were able to keep their race out of the picture. Of course they didnt have the Internet.
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Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I agree, the internet and a TV in every room makes it tough to hide much these days. I doubt FDR could be elected today.
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Which brings me to the point: Good leaders are good leaders, good people are good people. It should not matter the color of their skin or nationality.
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Despite author Toni Morrison's 1998 New Yorker magazine article that claims Bill Clinton is the nation's first black president because of his womanizing and frequenting McDonald's restaurants, Clinton is not listed.
Am I reading this wrong, or is she trying to say that black men are womanizers who frequent McDonalds?
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katherine .. looks that way to me !! what a generalization !! so sad !!
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You were reading it right, some people are still so stupid and arrogant in this day-n-age, so sad. Of course the New Yorker is the mag that put up that stupid cartoon of Obama and his wife as terrorist.
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I've never met any white men who are womanizers who like McDonalds. /sarcasm
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