Warren “G-Thang” Harding
Did anybody catch John McLaughlin this past weekend? He totally went off about how Barack Hussein Obama would not be the first black President! No. That distinction belongs to Warren Gamaliel Harding. Ha, ha. I don’t think I’d ever heard that before, but McLaughlin was as serious about it as he could be. Who knew? An old girlfriend of mine used to say that Beethoven was a blackamoor of some kind, but I was never too sure. We’re all very muttly, anyhow, so who should keep score? Not me: I’m a mutt myself.
My favorite Harding quote is actually from his father. I read it in some book in college and can’t remember exactly how it went, but Harding’s dad basically said that if Warren had been born a girl, he would have been “in the family way” early and often. Apparently, our 28th President was quite the swordsman. Or, as they say these days, a slut.
Race is interesting. Scientists keep denying it, but people keep buying it. Maybe they’re both right.
