Our First Black President? #
In an interesting piece devoid of any verifiable information, Beverly Gage raises the possibility that Warren G. Harding was really the first “black” president of the United States. The closest she gets toward actually asserting the veracity of the account is here:
In the decades since, many biographers have dismissed the rumors of Harding’s mixed-race family as little more than a political scandal and Chancellor himself as a Democratic mudslinger and racist ideologue. But as with the long-denied and now all-but-proved allegations of Thomas Jefferson’s affair with his slave Sally Hemings, there is reason to question the denials. From the perspective of 2008, when interracial sex is seen as a historical fact of life instead of an abomination, the circumstantial case for Harding’s mixed-race ancestry is intriguing though not definitive.