The Five Black Presidents of the United States of America

What is so significant about the one drop rule and why would that claim that some of our Unitied State presidents were African American?
Well the one drop rule is historical in nature and comes from a term that has been held in the United States that if ANY person with any trace of African ancestry is considered black (African-American) This form of thought was developed during the long years of institutionalized slavery and still holds a part of culture today. This particular rule did not focus on the "looks" of an individual but that of the "ancestors" by which a person came from.

Mainly because of the one-drop rule, there are many pale-skinned people who are considered black. In many of these instances, the person can actually have more white ancestry than black. This even happens today. During slavery, mescegination took place but because the mixing was from a person of African acenstry, they were still considered black. If they then had a child with a white person, the child would have been one-quarter black, but still considered black.

Because the fact that the one drop rule stood during the time in United States history, many of our presidents tried to hid the fact of their African Ancestry as well as define themselves as Caucasian or "white". Many of our presidents (as you will see in their pictures) looked more "white" than "black". Even though their outward appearance was distictfully more from a caucasian background, the one drop rule applied during their time which during their lifetime considered them black.