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Not the first black president?

by: Pam Spaulding

Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 03:00:00 AM EST


And I'm not talking about Bill Clinton -- we're talking Harding, as in Teapot Dome Warren G. Harding, who served as the 29th president (March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923). This is all pretty funny, and hasn't been discussed very widely in the MSM. We've been making the assumption that Barack Obama will be the first black president.

There have been always been rumors along the way that Warren G. Harding was of black heritage, albeit passing, of course. In fact, the subject came up in the NYT last April.

Will Americans vote for a black president? If the notorious historian William Estabrook Chancellor was right, we already did. In the early 1920s, Chancellor helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family's "colored" past. According to the family tree Chancellor created, Harding was actually the great-grandson of a black woman. Under the one-drop rule of American race relations, Chancellor claimed, the country had inadvertently elected its "first Negro president."

...As recently as 2005, a Michigan schoolteacher named Marsha Stewart issued her own claim to Harding ancestry. "While growing up," she wrote, "we were never allowed to talk about the relationship to a U.S. president outside family gatherings because we were 'colored' and Warren was 'passing.' "

The Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy's Martin Eisenstadt says much the same about the matter and raises the bar by quoting a Harding descendant.
I spent the holidays with our benefactor, Clifford Harding III, and he authorized me to spread what until now was mostly a family secret. He said, "The family is ready to come clean about how proud we've always been of our great uncle's contribution to the mosaic of American diversity."  As President Harding himself once said, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."
True or not, the fact is Harding didn't run as a black man, a man of black heritage or anything of the sort because that would have been political suicide. But it does bring up the issue of passing and how the social construct that is race is lunacy on so many levels., and
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Lunacy
My brother has three biracial children. One of them looks white -- she is very fair and has dark blond hair. She is proud of her heritage, but it is simply easier for her to "pass" as white rather than explain to strangers that she is biracial. Her husband is white and has blond hair (and is Jewish BTW). So, their children are going to look white and will probably be blond. I doubt that they will be ashamed of their Asian heritage. But, it will very be difficult for them to be recognized by society as anything other than what they appear. Imagine a fair-skinned blond person saying that he or she is Asian.

I think that people prefer to let their eyes tell them what race a person fits into. The "one drop rule" conflicts with what they see. They would rather just do what is easier -- base everything on appearance.

THAT is lunacy.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


My partner, who is of mixed ancestry
is Blackfoot and Apache, African, Mexican (a mix of Spanish, African, and Native American[1] heritage), and Irish. Though her grandmother wasn't allowed to teach white children, she looks white enough that she's been told she wasn't welcome in some "women of color" circles.

She has a relative (an aunt, I believe) who married a white man and didn't tell him about her ancestry. Their child was born with darker skin and curlier hair. At first her husband was going to divorce her for cheating on him. When she told him about her ancestry, he divorced her because she was black.

[1] by American, I mean the Americas - the continents




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[ Parent ]
Okay, so...
...he's the first openly black president.

I'm only a click away.

As far as "openly black" presidents
How many "apparently white" men get to be president before an "openly black" man is sworn in?

42.

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy fans rejoice.




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Thomas Jefferson was the first
If we're going by the "one drop" rule, Obama is our sixth Black president.  

http://www.diversityinc.com/pu...

I really want to slap that bitch Ann Coulter silly for her rants on biracial children "siding" with absent Black fathers, when she could never experience what it's like to be labeled as anything but White based on sight, not ancestry.  I certainly can't share that experience either, but as the descendant of Welsh immigrants, Native Americans, and a few Irish, I understand the frustration of being tagged with a label that doesn't fit.


Slapping Ann Coulter
"I really want to slap that bitch Ann Coulter silly for [...]"

Great idea, I support it. I still don't understand why Brothers ans Sisters has a 'nice' version of Ann Coulter. That's just irresponsible.


[ Parent ]
my granddad
threw his sister, my great-aunt, out of his house over 50 years ago and told her not to let the door hit her where the good Lord split her because she told him the truth about their grandfather. Which is that he was black. To me, now, it's a historical curiosity. But to my grandfather, born in 1912 Oklahoma and raised under Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson, having a black grandparent could have meant moving from a world of white privilege to black deprivation. Of course he wasn't going to say anything. He had less of a problem acknowledging his Native American grandmother.

It's worth remembering, on this day when we welcome Barack Obama as president, that Homer Plessy had a black great-grandmother, and for that, he was considered black. And this was a big problem. To me, living over 100 years later, the whole thing seems just absolutely insane. Who the heck cares about skin color? It's just skin color. Skin color that's led to all these centuries of slavery, Jim Crow and discrimination. It's just crazy.


Harding Institute a hoax
While it may be true that Harding was biracial, "Martin" or "Michael" or "Thomas" Eisenstadt is a fakir and the Harding Institute is a hoax. See Source watch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

Yeah,
Eisenstadt was pretty thoroughly investigated and debunked by Bill Wolfrum at Shakesville as well.

"If the apocalypse comes... beep me." -- Buffy Summers

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I have met a grandson, Warren G. Harding III
Harding and several other Presidents were from Ohio. My father knows WGH,III slightly, and introduced me when we crossed paths at a restaurant. Afterwards, I confirmed with my dad that this indeed was the heir of Teapot Dome - yup.

When All This is Past
I look forward, or better yet, my grandchildren look forward to the time in America when "one drop" and all the other measures are only found in ancient history texts.

Today is a very historic day for many reasons and I am proud that we have a new president.  His job is immense and very difficult.  He needs our support, especially contacting our congresspeople to pass legislation, to revive our country from the constant and open destruction of prez 43 and his minions.

His ancestory is important, so is mine, and yours and everybody's.  To those who are members of the former political party, race is the first, middle and final issue.  We will be constantly working to move beyond their limit, to the unlimited ability of our world, not theirs.


Pam,
J'aime ma Peau



By definition...
...aren't we all ultimately of African ancestry?

good point!
Given the heavy inter-marriage of generations of ancestors with Cherokee and Sioux on both sides of my family, I consider myself more Native American than Welsh, which is where my Y chromosome points.

[ Parent ]
Obama is apparently
the first openly black president of the US. Any previous ones were, obviously, closeted

harding's ancestors
I am the great-great niece of Harding (grandmother was daughter of Harding's brother). Wouldn't bother me a bit if that was true (i'm white). Even though history has judged him in a dim light (deservedly so in some aspects) he was also the first President that women were allowed to vote in the election and (more of a trivia thing) his inagural was the first to have amplified sound at the ceremony. He was elected during a time of the height of the KKK, and its rumored that Harding was a member. Was the good ole' boys club in the 20's. So it's all a mixed pot of who knows what. It's another interesting take on Presidential history!

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