A portrait of JOHN HANSON by John Hesselius, late 1760s.
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 4the Thursday of every November to
be Thanksgiving Day, 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 during the heart of the enslavement period. Enter
George Washington.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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 in
Europe .
ANDREW JACKSON
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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."
WAREEN GAMALIEL HARDING
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?"
CALVIN COOLIDGE
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.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
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.
BARACK OBAMA
So, America has survived and thrived through our first Seven Black
Presidents and we will survive and THRIVE through the election of this one!
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Monday, February 28th 2011 at 6:06PM
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