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First African American Presidential Candidate from a Major Party?

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Thomas Jefferson and the other major party candidates for the election of 1800. Washington didn’t approve of political parties. At least according to my read of the census definition:

A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa….

My understanding of current thinking on evolution is that we all have origins in Black racial groups of Africa. And that this is our only origin in a period spanning tens of thousands to millions of years.

4 thoughts on “First African American Presidential Candidate from a Major Party?”

  1. While the prevailing thought is that we are all descended from Africans, the color of our prehistoric ancestors’ skin is purely speculative, unless we find a mummy from those times.

  2. I speculate it was brown, like every person on the planet today. I’ve never met a white, black, red or yellow person. Every single one of them was a shade of brown (very light brown in Seattle, darker brown here in Phoenix.) I did meet an old cowboy in SD named pinky, but he was brown too.

    This ‘white boy’ happens to be very light brown with speckles of dark brown here and there.

    I don’t remember meeting an albino, but suspect they aren’t quite white either (regardless of race.)

  3. Actually Sam wrote that (look in the upper left hand corner of the post for a Rand or a Sam). Geneticists are pretty good about matching genetics of the 200,000 year old remains to sub-populations today. I think it’s pretty far fetched to assume that the ones who left Africa for the frozen North are the ones with the unmutated skin color and the ones who stayed were the ones who mutated from light to dark. It’s the small splinter group of emigrants who go through the evolutionary needle hole to feel new evolutionary pressures that do not include bright sunlight. In any case, one cannot contradict that the original humans are Black. (Note the capital B making the reference tautological). It takes a lot of epicycles to divide a species into races.

    I marked the census race question “Human”.

  4. I think it’s pretty far fetched to assume that the ones who left Africa for the frozen North are the ones with the unmutated skin color and the ones who stayed were the ones who mutated from light to dark.

    I think that’s pretty far fetched as well. That’s why I didn’t actually propose such a straw man. 😉

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