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6 reasons why Barack Obama wont be the first Black President
According to Dr. Leroy Vaughn an opthalmogist and journalist C. Stone Brown there are several former Presidents who were Black or Mulatto. Dr. Vaughn published his findings in his book titled "Black People and Their Place in History" and Mr. Brown titled his article in DiversityInc magazine, "Who Were the 5 Black Presidents?". There findings are based on the standard put into play in the 19th and 20th centuries used for determing one's race and it went as follows, one drop of balck blood, made you black, socially and in the eyes of the law. Most of us have heard this before. So according to this rule 6 former Presidents seems to have beat Sen. Obama to the historic accomplishment. The six Presidents named as to being black or mulatto are : Thomas Jefferson(3rd); Andrew Jackson(7th); Abraham Lincoln(16th); Warren Harding(29th); Calvin Coolidge(30th); Dwight D. Eisenhower(34th). This doesn't take anything away from the emotion I will feel the moment Sen. Obama is sworn in or when the votes are tallied and the numbers are in his favor. Just an interesting bit of information to share.
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