Barack Obama Could Be Our 6th Black President

Barack Obama is making history. Only 5 times before has an African American person, one with at least 5% African based blood, according to Dr. Leroy Vaughn, M.D., MBA, Historian in his book BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY.

African Americans In The White House

Jefferson - Author of the Constitution's first draft.

Jackson - Organizer, i.e. the Democratic Party

Lincoln - Uniting the country and freeing slaves

Harding & Coolidge - Roaring 20's - the most profitable time in American history.

Barack Obama seems to have all the qualities of earlier Black presidents. In this time of great constructive change, I see no better candidate than Senator Barack Obama.

Below is a reading of Dr. Vaugh's piece 5 Black United States Presidents. His book, BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY is available at the Dynamic Thought bookstore on line.

Five Black United States Presidents





A great man asked 'if we had Black Presidents, given the times, they would have been killed.' Check out what happened to these guys.

1. Thomas Jefferson's wealth died before he did. At his death he was living with a Black Woman, as the father of their Black Children. Wasn’t he the one who insisted on the phrase "All Men Are Created Equal"? What did those words betray? Why would a White slave owner push that theory at that time?

2. Andrew Jackson was the first president to have an attempt on his life

3. Abraham Lincoln was killed in office. For almost a week while he was president, hundreds of Black people were targeted and killed on the streets of New York in response to his draft policy. The White rioters even killed a Black child when burning down the Colored Orphan Asylum. Dr. Vaughn writes "Lincoln's presidential opponents made cartoon drawings depicting him as a Negro and nicknamed him "Abraham Africanus the First."

4. Warren Harding died under unclear circumstances that could have included murder. The year he was elected, the Negro Wall Street riots happened where hundreds of Black folks were brutally killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rosewood, Florida’s Black community was also the target of rage killings. The official site of the riots is now a $3 million beautiful park and building called the Greenwood Educational and Cultural Center, Inc. Looking like ghosts from the past, hundreds of junkies surround the area.

5. Calvin Coolidge - though he was president during the prosperous roaring 20's, never received much credit for his work and within a year after he left office the country fell apart with the stock market crash. According to Groiler "The number and variety of Coolidge's accomplishments as president were substantial. Unhappily, wiser ones were needed to meet the growing problems of the time. His major achievements--tax and debt reduction and the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war--were soon made mockeries by the events of the 1930's, and his lesser accomplishments were largely forgotten with time's passage." Reads like PhD level historians have decided to kill his reputation. He was good while he was there but nine months after he left things fell apart so he wasn't that good. Nine months can unravel a lot of things. The Roaring 20's were among the best times this country ever experienced.

Was that what was suppose to happen to former Presidents of the United States?