'Obama Won't Be First Black President' Readers' Comments

There needs to be major corrections made in anything pertaining to President Obama. He is not the first black President rather he is the first biracial President. As someone who is black and white like our president I know the feeling and the treatment he received because he was mixed. As he once said in an article here in Chicago, when I hail a cab, or walk down the street people see me as black. I know that feeling. When I walk down the street people see me as a person who is Spanish. WRONG!

I recall my German and Irish mother asking me one day if I was upset at being part white and it was the most moving moment in my life. From that day forward I never felt that one drop of black blood meant I was 100% black. I knew and know I am German, Irish, Black and Native American Indian. Thank you mommy and daddy.

Is Obama really not black enough? Or are we just not civilized enough to recognized a black man who has good common sense and does not act "ghetto". Are we really a world who still cares about color. Its 2009 people we have to stop living in a world of color. If you want to be racist then you can go in your back and dig a hole jump in it and bury yourself alive. Obama your black enogh for me if that even makes since I love you and you will for ever be my president you made a big difference in my life and you made me relize just because im "colored" I can still make a change and a difference in life

Dwight Eisenhower who was president before JFK two terms had a black grandmother. This was common knowledge and was reported in the 70s in Ebony magazine!Dinah shore had a black grand mother also, now Carol Channing has come out and said she always was proud of her heritage. How come the fact that Thomas Jefferson had black roots never came out? If he tried to hide or extinguish the truth as he did his relations with Sally Hemings the more suspect folks will be. Race is a sad fact in this country!

I titled this message alert because. I truly feel the need to alert some of you who have written on this subject matter. It's truly funny how we can joke with one another, eat with one another, even become best friends. And take part in such things like school, work, and gatherings. But when it boils down to it even though we can unite and do all those things. In our hearts some of us still hold a racil rope and we dangle on this rope even hang from. Whites hanging from one blacks hanging from the other. I wonder will we ever stop hanging and let go. Let go and let GOD lead us into unity. As people and not us and them...Yet my words will be spit on and laughed at and mocked I'm sure. But I dont care. I can even needle out some of those racil rope danglers on this page. Like those who say the "Black community". Or my favorite "why do blacks seperate them selves from us" let me just add that that was very racist and ignorant okay. Second we need to wake up and slap any one we see trying to seperate the new United Unified States Of America

Thanks for informing me about the reality, i will definitly provide this knowledge to others

I was really impressed by the fact that has been stated in this article. i could tell that obama is logically the first black president. however, clinton has been considered one of the black president. but from my point, obama is really the first black president for the united states.

Thank You for publishing some hidden information about this country's history. I've known this for a number of years, but finally it is in print. When I tell people about this and some other interesting information, concerning Black facts or history. I usually have people tell me it isn't so. Someone has made up this stuff. Others say it is about time we are finding out the true history of this country.

I have always been taught to look at each person as an individual and to never classify anyone. Unfortunately all I ever hear is reverse racism. The news interviewed a black woman the other night and her comment was "We've been verified now that we have a black president". Did the black people vote for Obama because he's black or did they vote for him because he is the right person for the job? It's too bad that everyone has to put a label on him instead of calling him "An American President" and letting him unify all of us.

This site is excellent! I stumbled onto it by trying to find information on John Hanson. I am thrilled to find this and pass the information on to others. Please keep this site open for the education of our people!

As a Canadian, I really liked this new American president because he has a strong vision for my neighbour "America". His words can really capture the confidence of many that he will make things right as a president..(I'm not black so it's definitely NOT because of his skin color). What I don't understand is why the large community of blacks bringing back news from decades ago about Civil rights?...or Martin Luther King's hard fought dream?..or BET hosting a show called King to Obama?...or saluting the "black power" hand sign?

You know in Canada, if the word "black" is used to describe a criminal; the black community would call it "racial profiling" that it shouldn't be used and yet black people continues to use that word throughout anywhere. I thought we have fought for diversity and yet the black communities continues to separate themselves from the rest of us.

I really liked this photo from the newspaper today showing a black guy wearing a black t-shirt saying "my president is black".

A decrease in black crimes now?

I have read this article and was impressed. But it doesn't mention John Hanson being the first Black President under the Articles of Confederation, who was a Moor. Can anyone tell me anymore about him. Back then the term was only for one year, but in that year he seemed to have accomplished a lot. I think that if we are going to tell the truth, it should be the whole truth. Tell from the very beginning and not just with the beginning of the Constitution. But thank you, this information will be added with what I have found to help my 2nd grade students have more references to look at for their Black History papers next month. Thanks again.

He is the 1st Black President of the USA, because he is the only one who has black skin. during slavery, he would have been a slave because of the colour of his skin. He has never been able to "pass" as prvious presidents may have. He is a Black man. When you look at him, you see a Black man.

He is the 1st Black President of the USA, because he is the only one who has black skin. during slavery, he would have been a slave because of the colour of his skin. He has never been able to "pass" as prvious presidents may have. He is a Black man. When you look at him, you see a Black man.

I dont see any reason why obama gets so much attention for being the "first black president' if you look into history evryone has black descent and i could understand if he was a 100 percent black but his mother is not black

I've been more interested in the facts that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and that he was a community organizer (good for bringing people and countries and political parties together) than that he is (half) black. But his color is still notable, especially given the history of the civil rights movement. More to the point, he's of more than one race, a good symbol of unification of a diverse country if ever there was one, and he's already a globetrotter, which doesn't hurt when working with other countries abroad.

Who really cares what the Hell the ethnicity of the President is?!?

It's not that kind of 'race' he won anyway! That's not an important question; "What's his ethnicity?", the question should be, "What can he do for the American People?". And that means ALL people!! I don't care if you're black, whte, yellow or green; can you help America?!?

I can remember when people who had different race parents were called "whiteies" by blacks. They were snubbed. Now, because Obama is President he's the First Black President. Why can't you say that this man was elected because he had visions of helping our country, because you agreed he had a plan to help our country instead of bragging that he is the first black President and fighting, calling names to those who might disagree because history tells a different story. How sad that he may have been elected to prove a point that a black can be President instead of his desire to do something for our country. Time will tell whether he can live up to his visions. If he fails, then I suppose you all who are arguing over his color will decide to call him a whiteie.

This article represents the fact that no one should have racial prejudices because they may be of that race. It is said that Hitler himself had Jewish ancestry. Some of the people who have posted comments have stated that this article comes from one of the people who wants to take something from Obama. People have been researching the lineage of past presidents decades before Obama even stepped onto the political scene. I just believe that this brings everything full circle.

That's a fact, he's not. He's the first that "looks" black. It's a shame the respect he had for his grandmother was "typical white woman" but it appears he has a more endearing feeling about his wife's mother as she will be living in the White House. Other black men have run as Independents, but no one has won when running as an Independent, black or white. So, I believe Obama is the first black man that has run as a Republican or Democrate, which means by his winning the election the black man has a 100% average of running and winning. So, why all the to do about us "finally" voting a black man into office, it's been our first opportunity to do so!

 this article is crazy. in one way or another, it seems like certain people are trying to take away that title from obama. which will never happen. no matter how hard they try obama will always be the first BLACK president..the people who may think hes not black enough, all i can say is get over it. he had the courage to attempt to run for president. and when others see someone doing something that they didnt think was possible, they want to start talking trash and saying a whole lot of negative things. its because of what he had the courage to do, that many people, especially young people, will be able to get that extra boost of courage and become anything that they want to be. if obama was the blackest of them all and both parents were black, people would say hes too black...i think that people should just accept it and move on with their lives. i will be the first to say that i never thought that i would live to see this day and now that its here, im soaking it all up.i m loving it right now, and theres nothing that anyone can say or do to make me feel other wise.lastly, the whole thing about clinton being honored as the first black president, thats a bunch of bullcrap. now clinton may of had some "black tendecies", according to some people. but the fact is, clinton has never been black, nor will he ever be. and for people to actually honor him as being the first black president was kind of sending a message to black people. telling them that this is the closes we will ever be to being president...so now when i see obama, i can take my hat off to him. for once in my life it feels like home. i can look at a flag and proudly recite the pledge. and most of all he was able to prove a lot of people wrong and take the title, that shouldnt of been given away, and give it back to black people. and for that BARACK OBAMA WILL AND ALWAYS BE THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA..lol..i love it, and for the people who dont agree, to hell with you, just know that he will go down in history as being the FIRST...OUR FIRST

 He is not the first Black President. Just because The other five don't look black that doesn't mean they are not black. How would we know????? All of the presidents on that cover( except Barack Obama ) look white. Thomas Jefferson live in the 1700's!!!! Abe was born on the 1800's!!!! We may never find out if Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, Coolidge, Harding, and Jackson are really Black. I think Barack Obama is the ONLY Black President. Until the people in this world find out that Barack Obama is not the first Black President and Jefferson is the REAL first Black President then I am still going to think that Barack Obama is our 44th President and the ONLY Black President.

 As an African American, I'm really sick and tired of this kind of nonsense. It's like some weird form of self-catharsis--"Please God, let there be some famous people who had black blood like me." By the standards of this author, half the members of the 2008 Congress could be secretly black. Puleeeeeeeze.

Why can't we accept the fact that black blood historically has been the least wanted racial/ethnic heritage. We don't have to try to make ourselves feel better with wild, ridiculous assertions that this president or that president was incognegro. We don't have to perpetuate the one-drop rule created by the enemies of our enslaved ancestors. If we're going to try to claim a half-dozen white presidents as secretly one of us, we have to claim some Klansmen and ordinary factory workers and "trailer trash" as incognegro. Or do we only attach this "gift" to people of prominence?

I'm one-eigth Irish. Exactly one-eigth because my mother is one-fourth and my grandmother one-half, and her father 100%. I'm more Irish than some of these presidents are black. I don't see the Irish feeling the need to claim me.

Black folks, please, get over it. People who posit this kind of nonsense are the kind of folks who claim Jesus looked like Samuel L. Jackson.

Obama is the first black president. Period.

 This was some very helpful information.Our new President has an almost impossible mess to clean up, and it can't happen in one term. If he's not successful in his first term he'll probably be voted out of office. When a white President mess up he's relected to continue to see if he can correct his mistakes. Every time we get someone in office that half way clean things up hot heads vote them out of office. Pray for our new President and give him a chance to help this country.

 Great information.

 Actually all people on this planet Earth originated from Africa,There is only one race,the human race so there cannot be mixed races, bi-racial.race is a purely American construct devised in the Slavery period to denie people of color rights that the US Constitution and British law guaranteed to all men.

The Americans made the "one drop rule", and white Americans need to wake up and learn about the truth of the enslavement of Africans and maybe after their learning and understanding of the Slave period the problems of unfairness that exists in American society can be dealt with,and the true greatness that awaits America will be achieved.

Hah, Obama's presidency will please world's peoples because this has been a victory in modern sense as he appears to be the first black president (regardless of historical ones who might have black ancestry yet look invisibaly black). Who says color isnt important? In our modern sense, election of a black president in U S means fairness,

integrity, lesser racial prejudise

and intimacy to all moniroties

in STATES/

However, to be honest, black ppl in US account for a majority of poorly-educated, low class and even problematic groups \.

Maybe everyone could be wondering if Obama would help strengthen

the steadiness of US society by means of diminishing racial problems and bettering the black ppl's farewell and social echelon.

Only future tells...