Obama Behind Warren G

Recently John McLaughlin mentioned that, if elected, Barack Obama would not be the first black President of the United States, because Warren G. Harding was "a negro." This wasn't the first time I've heard that possibility. A few years ago, I came across a (self-described) black supremacist website. Essentially, their argument for Warren G. Harding's blackness was that he had a big nose and people hated him. It wasn't a convincing case. That could easily describe a Jew.

The accusation (and that's just what it is) actually bothered me. Not because they're saying that Warren G. Harding was black, but because they're saying Warren G. Harding was black. He was a terrible president. The worst so far, depending on how historians judge Bush. Oh sure, give black people the worst president, they got the worst parts of the pig during slavery, they're used to it. What's next, is someone going to discover that Vanilla Ice has black ancestors too?

Harding was a vicious racist. That doesn't mean he didn't have black ancestors somewhere down the line, but he certainly didn't identify as black. These racial, religious, and ethnic divisions have less to do with heritage and more to do with society's perception of you combined with how you present yourself. I've been mistaken for being a Muslim, a Christian, a Colombian, a Kashmiri, a Mexican, and a pedophile.

My great great grandfather, Robert Mugabe (probably no relation to the authoritarian dictator of Zimbabwe), worked in a morgue. He used to give rim jobs to the recently deceased women there. That doesn't mean that I'm an ass-eating necrophiliac. I mean, I am. But that's not the point. The point is that Robert Mugabe licks the anuses of dead women. More importantly, if elected, Barack Obama will be the first black President of the United States of America. And John McLaughlin will still call him "a negro."