Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:13:14 +0100 From: Mistri Ganguli <[email protected]>
It was once said that a black man would be president, "when pigs fly!" Indeed, 100 days into Obama's presidency...... the Swine Flu! Mario adds: Perhaps it was said by someone who had no idea what he or she was talking about:-)) To begin with, there have been numerous black men who have served as President of various African and Latin American countries. Even if Ganguli is talking only about the US, which his rference to Obama suggests, it may be that pigs have already flown, 208 years ago, which will come as a crushing disappointment to Mr. Ganguli, who seems to adore the current American president, who has done nothing but harm to Indian interests since he took office by restricting H1-B visas and putting restrictions on Indian nurses working in the US in the idiotic belief that this will create more jobs for Americans:-)) Actually, he is more interested in rewarding his union supporters in a classic display of vote bank politics - American style. In the US, African Americans consider anyone who has even "one drop" of African blood to be an African American. By this standard, the half-white Barack Obama certainly qualifies, though the teleprompter he cannot speak two sentences without is probably 100% Japanese:-)) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19663.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/10/obamas-reliance-on-teleprompters/ However, there are some who believe Obama is the SIXTH African American US President by the "one drop" standard. This has apparently been documented in a book titled, "Black People And Their Place In World History", which alleges that Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge all had some African blood in their ancestry, though this information was never admitted to or made public for racial reasons prevalent at a time when blacks were second class citizens and had limited civil rights. Excerpt: Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors. If one considers the fact that European men far outnumbered European women during the founding of this country, and that the rape and impregnation of an African female slave was not considered a crime, it is even more surprising that these two authors could not document Black ancestors among an ever larger number of former presidents. The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge. [end of excerpt]
