Obama Wouldn't Be The First Black President..

[RBG3]

Did A quick search didn't see it on here...

I don't know who does or doesn't know this, but John Hanson was the first (and black) president of the U.S.A.

I have books with it, but my scanner is broken..but I'm sure your local library has one with information, if not there's always the internet.

Just thought it would be something interesting to know for those who didn't..

[Moe17]

Originally Posted by RBG3

Did A quick search didn't see it on here...

I don't know who does or doesn't know this, but John Hanson was the first (and black) president of the U.S.A.

I have books with it, but my scanner is broken..but I'm sure your local library has one with information, if not there's always the internet.

Just thought it would be something interesting to know for those who didn't..

Really? Is this him;
John Hanson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He looks white! Oh, wait...I just saw this link;
http://www.hypnotiqueolmecpunch.org/...age.htm:sorry: Very interesting how TRUE history tries to hide from us...
Are you from Prince George County, in Maryland? Funny, this president has history there & I just relocated from there.

[JamieC]

I checked out wikimedia.org and this man doesn't look black to me. However, I shall check a little further.

[JamieC]

John Hanson (myths) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Research is such a wonderful factor in today's world. I missed my Calgon Bubble Bath for this.


Hanson was black

**** Gregory, comedian and black activist, publishes an on-line column called Global Watch. In one of his columns he repeated most of the myths and added a new one, that John Hanson was the descendent of a black slave.[8]

There are two possible origins for this belief. The first is that Hanson's grandfather, another John Hanson, was an early English immigrant to Maryland; as was common at the time, he worked as an indentured servant on his arrival in the New World. In 1661, his first master, William Plumley, sold his contract to Edward Keene and recorded the contract with the court of Calvert County, Maryland; similar court records were also used to transfer title to land and slaves. But, in six years, the immigrant John had worked his way out of debt, and a few years afterwards had purchased his own small farm. There is no record that the grandfather was black, but if indentured servitude was confused with chattel slavery, it is easy to see where this belief would have appeared.

Another may be a simple case of confusion with Senator John Hanson, a politician from Liberia, who was involved with the resettlement of freed slaves in that country. Whilst this Hanson was indeed black, he also lived a hundred years too late.


[edit] Speech of the Unknown
The fictitious Speech of the Unknown is sometimes attributed to John Hanson. The speech is another example of 19th century glorification of the previous century, and the story appears in George Lippard's 1847 piece entitled Washington and His Generals: or, Legends of the Revolution.

As the story goes, the speech was given at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was the final motivation to spur the delegates to sign it. In Lippard's version of the fable -- and in most retellings -- the speaker is anonymous. In the last few years (and perhaps earlier) the speech has been attributed to Hanson to make it appear as if it were an actual event in history. This is on the same level as the spurious speech attributed to Chief Seattle, which was actually written approximately 120 years after the fact. Luckily, the Speech of the Unknown has not, as yet, appeared in high school textbooks.

To clarify, Hanson wasn't present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, nor was he invited. Hanson was not selected as a delegate to the Continental Congress until four years later. This speech is obvious fiction. For perspective, the speech has also been attributed to the Comte de Saint-Germain, a man alleged by fringe spiritualists to be immortal.

Probably the most famous person to quote the speech as fact is the late President Ronald Reagan, in his commencement address at Eureka College on June 7, 1957.

[Moe17]

Sorry, wrong link...
Our Language
Why would anyone create a "fake" John Hanson---thats a shame.

[Daughter of Kali]

Originally Posted by Moe17

Sorry, wrong link...
Our Language
Why would anyone create a "fake" John Hanson---thats a shame.

That is a very interesting site. How do I give thanks?

[Chelbe]

John Hanson



Thanks for this info.

[Chevron Dove]

Originally Posted by Moe17

Sorry, wrong link...
Our Language
Why would anyone create a "fake" John Hanson---thats a shame.

Great post. Did you see the fake depictions of Henry Morgan and Sir Francis Drake?

[RBG3]

Originally Posted by Moe17

Really? Is this him;
John Hanson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He looks white! Oh, wait...I just saw this link;
http://www.hypnotiqueolmecpunch.org/...age.htm:sorry: Very interesting how TRUE history tries to hide from us...
Are you from Prince George County, in Maryland? Funny, this president has history there & I just relocated from there.

He was "re-created" as a white man, there is only 1 picture left of the true john hanson:



That's the only one left in existence.

They replaced that picture with statues and pictures of another man..I forgot his name, but made him John Hanson instead - to lower the morale of black people - or not let it rise.

And I'm from Toronto Canada, :)
But The USA has a huge effect on the world, so I follow it's history and current events very closely.

[RBG3]

Originally Posted by JamieC

I checked out wikimedia.org and this man doesn't look black to me. However, I shall check a little further.

Yup that's the fake one, keep looking :)

It's sad that even on the internet it's difficult to find the truth about this..but I'm not saying John Hanson was a good man..just that he was the first president..he did some bad things..was with some bad crowds, but that's conspiracy ideas so I won't bother to bring them up, suffice to say he was a freemason.