Posted: Mon 13 Feb 2006 15:37 Post subject: Warren G. Harding
Morning members,
Had to share this IMO extreme ODR loving, dishonest, and in many ways hateful propagandist website I came across.
It's unbelievable (and pathetic) what comes out of some ODR supporters mouths...
Warren Gamaliel Harding, has been deceased since 1923 yet STILL all these years later, some black proponents of the now legally DEFUNCT ODR are still trying to "out" this dead man, accusing him of being a "racial liar".
Posted: Mon 13 Feb 2006 15:57 Post subject: Warren G. Harding
Wasn't J.A. Rogers the one who came up with this notion that Harding was a Negro?
BTW, I think people are on more solid footing with J. Edgar Hoover. At least he may have had some African ancestry. I believe some of his relatives-distant cousins-are still living and residing in Washington, D.C.
Joel Augustus Rogers was born September 6, 1883 at Negril, Jamaica. Very little is known about his early schooling. The historian is said to have had a "good basic education" but lacked higher formal education.
J.A. Rogers immigrated to the United States in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen in 1917. Despite his light complexion and mulatto background, Rogers bitterly discovered that Black people were all treated the same, no matter the complexion. Rogers, however, rejected the dogma of white superiority, even as a child. In a class and color conscious Jamaica, the young Rogers observed, "I had noticed that some of my schoolmates were unmixed blacks and were, some of them, more brilliant than some of the white ones." Rogers grew up around Blacks who were physicians and lawyers--graduates of "the best English and Scottish Universities." This realization that the doctrine of white superiority was contradicted by the talent and expertise of Black intellect inspired Rogers to begin his research into the Black experience.
J.A. Rogers published his first book, the 87 page "From Superman to Man" in 1917. At the time he wrote the book, he was working as a Pullman porter out of Chicago. Rogers had gone to Chicago to Study art. Rogers was one of the first and few African historians to use art extensively in helping to validate the achievements of African people.
J.A. Rogers' search for truth led him to examine the African blood lines of Europeans and Americans. His signal work, "Nature Knows No Color-Line" and the three-volume set, "Sex and Race" destroyed the myth of Aryan race purity.
Rogers' other historical focus was on producing biographical portraits of prominent African personages. In 1931, he published "The World's Greatest Men of African Descent" and in 1947, published "The World's Great Men of Color 3000 B.C. to 1946 A.D." Joel Augustus Rogers died on his birthday, September 6, 1966.
BIBLIOGRAPHY -- J.A. ROGERS
1. From Superman to Man
2. As Nature Leads: an informal discussion of the reason why Negro and Caucasian are mixing in spite of opposition.
3. The Approaching Storm and How It May Be Averted.
4. The Ku Klux Sprit: a brief outline of the history of the Ku Klux Klan past and present.
5. World's Greatest Men of African Descent.
6. One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro: with complete shortcut to the world history of of the Negro.
7. World's Greatest Men and Women of African Descent.
8. The Real Facts about Ethiopia.
9. Your History from the Beginning of Time to the Present
10. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in all Ages and all Lands (3 vols.).
11. World's Great Men of Color (2 vols.).
12. Nature Knows No Color Line: research in the Negro ancestry in the white race.
13. Africa's Gift to America: the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States with new supplement: Afria and its potentialities.
Posted: Wed 15 Feb 2006 06:17 Post subject: Warren G. Harding
This is the best book on Harding and the "black blood" issue that surfaced during his presidential campaign. Cheap used copies can be ordered on Amazon.
The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times
by Francis Russell
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Posted: Wed 15 Feb 2006 16:23 Post subject:
This guy on the Stewart Synopsis website is called the "First Negro Settler of the Region [central Michigan]." If this phenotypically completely white man can be called a "Negro," then so can every European!
The first documentation of an African-American settler in Mecosta County Michigan was James Guy, who on May 30, 1861, obtained 160 acres in Wheatland Township. By 1873 African-Americans owned about 1,392 acres. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed each settler 160 acres in Rolland Township. Most of the land where Remus sits at that time was owned by African-Americans.
There are "Old Settlers" who came from Canada via "The Underground Railroad." It was the most dramatic nonviolent protest against slavery in the United States that began in the Colonial Era and reached its peak between 1830 and 1865. An estimated 30,000 to 100,000 slaves used the "railroad" to get to Canada; many others escaped to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.
The majority of the old settlers came from Morgan and Meigs Township, Muskingum Counties, Ohio. The Lett Settlement was one of, if not the earliest African American settlement in Ohio! The Lett Settlement was also an early link on Ohio's Underground Railroad. As early as 1805, Ohio along with Illinois and Indiana had established Statute Laws or "Black Laws" designed to discourage Blacks, free or slave, from moving into its territory. One law passed in April 1827 required Black settlers to post a $500 "good behavior" bond to stay in the territory.
The Berrys and Todds moved to Michigan in the 1860's from southwest Ontario via the Underground Railroad. The Todds stopped in Remus, and the Berry's went on to Morton Township in Mecosta County, where Webers' Lumber Camp was selling cut-over land. Land sold for $1.25 an acre. The early settlers built log cabins, one-room schools and fences made from dynamited pine stumps. They kept bees and planted apple trees. Isaac Berry, a blacksmith, made hand-forged bobsleds and skates. They settled down on 80 acres, built a log cabin and began clearing the land. Berry later built a school, a beach house and two bath houses. Lucy Berry became the school's first teacher. Soon Absalom Johnson, another ex-slave and friend of Isaac Berry's, moved his family from Canada to the Michigan community they called Little River in Mecosta County.
Instead of disappearing into the dust that swallowed many other Black rural areas, the old settlers of Mecosta, Isabella and Montcalm Counties prevailed. They came there in 1861, and they're still here in 2005. Some have moved to the large cities of Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint and Detroit, but their roots go back to Central Michigan. There is compiled data and drawn maps of Black households in nine townships in Mecosta and Isabella Counties. In 1870, the nine-township area had 41 Black households; there were 86 in 1975 and 106 in 1994.
More "African-American" (clearly mixed race and some completely white appearanced) early settlers...
I think it's clear to say that the vast majority of these clearly mixed and white appearanced individuals clearly practiced endogamy. You can see with the naked eye generation after generation possessing the same general phenotype. And it's not African.
A few of the photographs http://www.oldsettlersreunion.com/Family%20Web%20Pages.htm show more diversity IMO and I actually found some clearly identifiable black people in the Bracy, Richard Moore, Daniel Branson, George Washington, Merze Tate, John Tate, Thomas Squires, Simon Sleet, Joseph Seaton, Robert Scott, William Ricks, Sr., Abner Byrd, James Porter and Daniel Pointer family Web Pages. Yet still, in many many instances visibly mixed people are also clearly noticed.
The majority of the other families featured are clearly mixed and some completely white appearanced.
Regardless of how these settlers identified - and the way their descendents view themselves today (the vast majority - that is those who didn't 'pass' - I suspect do publicly identify as black) - I HIGHLY recommend everyone viewing this wonderful site! The photographs are absolutely beautiful and the historical information regarding this American community is fascinating. What a family oriented and successful group of people...
The Guess Who, The Way we Are, Historical Schools, and Reunion areas of the site are also worth viewing.
Enjoy!
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