Thread: This might make some of you laugh but was Abraham Lincoln half black?

There still isn't a first Black President. Technically Obama is the first mixed race President, his mother being white and his father Black which I feel is going to make him a successful President. He is striving for unity in American and what better person to do so than the son of both races. Lincoln was white. His appearance has raised many questions about what disease he suffered from, not his race.

No, and Lincoln hated blacks. For him they were just a tool to give morality to his immoral war crimes.

There still isn't a first Black President. Technically Obama is the first mixed race President, his mother being white and his father Black which I feel is going to make him a successful President. He is striving for unity in American and what better person to do so than the son of both races. Lincoln was white. His appearance has raised many questions about what disease he suffered from, not his race.

Your friend may be speaking in metaphorical terms.

In the 1850s and 1860s, the Republican Party was referred to by its detractors as the "Black Republicans" because they were perceived as being in favor of rights for African Americans, in addition to being an anti-slavery party.

Lincoln's genealogy has been examined in great detail and there is no evidence whatsoever that he had a black ancestor.