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It is not known for certain who America's '''first [[black]] president''' was. It could be [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1801-1809), described as the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father." In fact, five earlier presidents may have had black ancestry.<ref name="five other black">[http://www.diversityinc.com/public/1461.cfm Hussain, Aysha. "Obama Won't Be First Black President".]</ref>

Outlandish false claims circulated widely on the web in late 2008 regarding America's '''first [[black]] president'''. For years extreme black separatists have used falsified evidence to claim that five presidents were black.  The chief source is a self-published book by a black militant named Leroy Vaughn, ''Black People And Their Place In World History'' (2002).<ref> see [http://www.amazon.com/Black-People-Their-Place-History/dp/0971592004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227071953&sr=1-1 Amazon blurb]</ref> Vaughn got his gossip from  ''The Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks, USA'' by black militant Auset Bakhufu  (1993),<ref> See the highly [http://www.amazon.ca/Six-Black-Presidents-Blood-White/dp/1880187000 negative reviews]</ref> who in turn drew on ''Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands'' (1940) by Joel Augustus Rogers, a black militant of the 1930s.  The goal of the propaganda was not truth but hatred of whites and the American political system. No conservative scholar gives the slanders any credence.

[[Barack Hussein Obama]], slated to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009, sought to be considered as a fellow black man by [[Mystery:Why Do Black Americans Vote For Liberal Candidates?|African American voters]].  For example, he awkwardly referred to black teenagers 30 years younger than him as "brothers", declaring that "brothers should pull up their pants."<ref>[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/obama-to-mtv-br.html "Obama: 'Brothers Should Pull up Their Pants'".] Political Radar, ABC News Blogs</ref>   

[[Barack Hussein Obama]], slated to be inaugurated on January 20, 2009, sought to be considered as a fellow black man by [[Mystery:Why Do Black Americans Vote For Liberal Candidates?|African American voters]].  For example, he awkwardly referred to black teenagers 30 years younger than him as "brothers", declaring that "brothers should pull up their pants."<ref>[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/obama-to-mtv-br.html "Obama: 'Brothers Should Pull up Their Pants'".] Political Radar, ABC News Blogs</ref>   

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