THE SEVEN BLACK PRESIDENTS BEFORE BARACK OBAMA

1. John Hanson (a Moor) was actually the 1st President of the United
States, he served from 1781 - 1782 and he was black. The new country was
actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of
Confederation. This document was actually proposed on June 11, 1776, but
not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to
sign this document until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands ( Maryland was
afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government
from such large amounts of land).

Once the signing took place in 1781, a President was needed to run the
country. John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included
George Washington). In fact, all the other potential candidates refused
to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an
extremely influential member of Congress.

As President, Hanson ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well
as removal of all foreign flags. He established the Great Seal of the United
States, which all Presidents since have been required to use on all Official
Documents. He declared that the 4th Thursday of every November to be
Thanksgiving Da y, which is still true today. Even though elected, one
variable that was never thought through was that America was not going
to accept a Black President durin g the heart of the enslavement period.
Enter George Washington.

2. Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States, he
served from 1801 - 1809 and he was black. His mother a half-breed Indian
squaw and his father a mulatto (half white and half black) from
Virginia. He fathered numerous children with Sally Hemmings, a mulatto
slave with whom he lived
with in Europe.

3. Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States. He served
from 1829 - 1837 and he was black. His mother was a white woman from
Ireland who had Andrew Jackson with a black man. His father's other
children (Andrew Jackson's stepbrother) was sold into slavery.

4. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, he
served from 1861 - 1865 and he was black. His mother was from an
Ethiopian Tribe and his father was an African American. It was told that
his father was Thomas Lincoln, a man to cover the truth, but he was
sterile from childhood mumps and was later castrated, making it impossible for him to have been
his father. Lincoln's nickname "Abraham Africa-nus the First."

5. Warren Harding was the 28th President of the United States, he served
from 1921 - 1923 and he was black. Harding never denied his ancestry.
When Republican leaders called on Harding to deny his "Negro" history,
he said, "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have
jumped the fence?"

6. Calvin Coolidge was the 29th President of the United States, he
served from 1923 - 1929 and he was black. He proudly admitted that his
mother was dark but claimed it was because of a mixed Indian ancestry.
His mother's maiden name was "Moor." In Europe the name "Moor" was given
to all Black people just as in America the name "Negro" was used.

7. Dwight E. Eisenhower was the 33rd President of the United States, he
served from 1953 - 1961 and he was black. His mother, Ida Elizabeth
Stover Eisenhower, an anti-war advocate, was half black.

So, America has survived and thrived through our first Seven Black
Presidents and we will survive and THRIVE through the election of this
one!