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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:
I'll admit it - I was stunned. ...
It must suck to be you.
If you can't find it in your mean, small, cynical,
it's all about me, me, me, mindset to appreciate
the mind-boggling historic import of the nomination
of the first black man to lead the ticket of a major
party then you're too far gone.
I was born in 1956 and I never in a thousand years
thought that I would see this day.
That was a great speech and only a blind fool partisan
cynic could believe otherwise.
We have already had black presidents. 5 have been documented, here are
2.
Andrew Jackson was our 7th president from 1829 to 1837. The Virginia
Magazine of History Volume 29 says that Jackson was the son of a White
woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a Negro. The magazine also
said that his eldest brother had been sold as a slave in Carolina. Joel
Rogers says that Andrew Jackson Sr. died long before President Andrew
Jackson Jr. was born. He says the president's mother then went to live
on the Crawford farm where there were Negro slaves and that one of these
men was Andrew Jr's father. Another account of the "brother sold into
slavery² story can be found in David Coyle's book entitled "Ordeal of
the Presidency"
Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from 1861 to 1865. J. A. Rogers
quotes Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was
the illegitimate son of an African man. William Herndon, Lincoln's law
partner, said that Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and that
his mother was from an Ethiopian tribe. In Herndon's book entitled "The
Hidden Lincoln" he says that Thomas Lincoln could not have been Abraham
Lincoln's father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and was
later castrated. Lincoln's presidential opponents made cartoon
drawings depicting him as a Negro and nicknamed him ³Abraham Africanus
the First."