Eisenhower was white adjacent.

And if they can't find an African American ancestor then he was part Romani or Sephardic-Arab Jewish or something.

He was a cute but intense looking kid.

Wtf are you talking about?

Good looking young man

I'm simply amused by the possibility and cover up.

R4 yes agreed. OP here. I'm not saying its a problem. He's gorgeous in this pic.

Who gives a fuck OP?

White historians get pressed whenever someone mentions possible black ancestry of their sacred cows. Don’t let them be gay or black.

Anything is possible.

I would have no problem if Eisenhower were of mixed race. I'm not even American. Having said that. it's extraordinarily easy to manipulate the colors in a photo if you have the proper software and a black and white picture is the easiest of all.

If you view color photos of Ike, you will see a very, very white man.

R9 I thought about that but so many photos online of his young years are the same. They aren't doctored.

Here is Dwight as a cadet at West Point.

Ike & Mamie and their first son.

His mother's family is mostly unknown and often suspected to have been mixed race, because of Ida's appearance, but no one really knows for sure.

Maybe something about B&W emulsion and Ikes face and colouring just produces this effect. He looks like a like skinned black man in the pic at R12.

He also had a mullet.

He certainly was a looker.

He also liked to pose from time to time.

Maybe he ate too much of Mamie's fudge.

If he really were part black, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Douglas Brinkley, Jon Meacham and other presidential historians would have uncovered that, and it would have been a major story. Eisenhower would have replaced Obama as America’s first black president.

Between his young images and R17’s pic of him in sheer socks, I never thought I’d find myself getting hot over Eisenhower.

R9 R14 It’s not simply skin color. Facial features can suggest all sorts of backgrounds. I’m black and I look black. My father was pasty with Eisenhower’s coloring but unmistakably black based on his features. His siblings were light-skinned, wavy-haired. One of my aunts had blond hair and blue eyes, another had hazel eyes. One married another light-skinned black man and had sons who looked like Eisenhower in his youth. @ R17 he looks like my cousin Johnny.

People have speculated that his mother was mixed race, based on her appearance, but it hasn't (yet) been proven.

Not black. Trust.

Where's that professor who does the PBS show about ancestry? And frankly, why would there need to be "speculation" when DNA tests exist? Test his descendants.

R24 good point.

Simply another Melungeon?

R19 I think that they would have covered it up.

A pretty high percentage of working class white Southerners have a black ancestor.

Not just the working classes r28.

As my dear old grandpa used to say "Theres a n***** in that woodpile" . Its obvious in his younger pics. Yes,my grandpa was racist,but he was born in 1901 in Ga . 36 years after the civil war had ended. Emotions still ran very high. He was actually a dear,sweet man but a product of his upbringing.

Mrs. Eisenhower, is your son MULATTO?

He was an affable man who despite a lack of combat experience was put at the head of military operations in Europe during WWII. He seemed to be well liked.

Licorice lips like candy!

I keep my cocoa handy!

I have such a sweet tooth when it comes to love!

Once I tried a diet

Of quiet rest, no sweets!

But I went nearly crazy

Then I went clearly crazy

Because I really craved for the chocolate flavored treats!

Eisenhower = "iron tusk" in German (eisenhauer)?

Er, English*

He looks like the descendant of ordinary, working-class Germans with fleshy features. 🤷🏻

Oh, look, I found this picture of George Washington as a little black boy 😏

And here's Thomas Jefferson's rainbow family 😳

My Ike was not colored!

SMH OP

He was TAN in your photos, which, as noted, are likely retouched badly.

Look at color photos of him from the 40s and 50s.

He is white AF

This is actually far more fascinating: the only states that voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 are all deep deep red states today

@r40 Oh, Mamie, everyone knows you like them colored manservants 😏

^^With the exception of GA, that is

OP, I never thought of it before you mentioned it, but now that you mention it, he does look as though he has Black ancestry.

OP here. I never noticed it either. But I happened to stumble upon the photo at my OP post and I was intrigued.

I can see it in the younger photos. Not so much as an older man. But I wouldn’t rule it out. He was quite handsome when young.

His beautiful lips, which seem to have disappeared over his 20s.

I mean, it's possible, but I have to remind you a considerable number of native Europeans have features that could be mistaken for "stereotypically black". Look at Norwegian Erling Haaland, for example:

OP, he had German ancestry. Like me.

Mamie was absolutely getting sawed in half at the Olde Towne Timber Mill

The rumor is it was from his maternal side but there doesn't seem to be any solid evidence.

I think similar things were said about Mr. Lincoln.

If I didn't know it was all satire, it would frighten me how much this site focuses on white purity.

Rumors about J. Edgar Hoover, too.

R53 I remember Elizabeth Taylor's character in Raintree County saying that, lol.

You can't go based on looks alone. This is the grandson of the slave Sally Hemings via her son, Eston, who was rumored to be the son of Thomas Jefferson.

President Dwight Eisenhower: America's First Black President?

Who let the coloreds in the color guard?!

The whole of humanity is descended from one African woman.

Maybe it's Maybelline.

The more I read into it, the more sense it makes. His mother did look biracial, and she didn’t really know he mother or their family. Or at least she claimed.

A DNA test would clear it up a bit, but I think only his grandkids are alive now. Even if they had Black DNA, it could have have another source.

It would be cool if he was. It wouldn’t make him the first Black president. That would be stupid to suggest. He didn’t think of himself as Black, nor did anyone else. He may not have even known. But would be a cool if not sad quirk of history.

The Eisenhowers were not black or Jewish.

So strong is the stigma of having African blood that the mere suggestion of it sends folks into a frenzy. When they asked Jacqueline Kennedy about a possible black ancestor (a man named Van Salee, who also was an ancestor of Humphrey Bogart), she vehemently denied it, saying that Van Salee was Jewish. This is why white historians and the families of the famous people whose legacies they help to maintain, get so riled up about it. The only reason so many people don't have a problem outing J. Edgar Hoover's black blood is because he is so reviled nowadays. There are many famous white families with some degrees of African ancestry. Before slavery became so entrenched in American culture, black folks married and bedded down with whoever they pleased, just like white people and some indigenous tribes. Eventually as slavery took hold and the "Black Codes" became law, black blood was seen as something to be ashamed of and hated. It happened in Latin America too, but it wasn't as strong. Your children could "become" white if you had children with a white man. North America is different. So no, a white historian wouldn't want anyone knowing that any of America's sacred white cows had black blood. And a lot of white families, prominent or not, took great pains to hide it, especially after the implementation of Jim Crow laws in the South.

More Afrocentrism bullshit. The Eisenhower family have been researched to death. Every ancestor is known. Enough.

he warned about the military industrial complex

[quote] His mother's family is mostly unknown and often suspected to have been mixed race

lol. No true at all.

[quote] His mother's family is mostly unknown and often suspected to have been mixed race

lol. Not true at all.

Ike looked like his father’s side.

See? Black blood is so hated that some of these entitled white sissies are having strokes at the mere suggestion...

I rest my case.

Watch Muriel shut this thread down.

He looks German. The U.S. has tons of people with German ancestry. Ike was one of them.

I'm not sure what some of you think white people look like. There's a lot of variety.

r33 bitch look like Elmer Fudd

Silly! All blood is red.

Carol Channing also had German and Black ancestry.

I thought Warren Harding was the first black president.

DL cunties are PRESSED AF!! LOL!

are they tho

The mere suggestion...

Dinah Shore was part black.

Don't forget me!

He was def black in the sac.

Knew it!

He fought the Battle of the Bulge.

He looks just white to me. The UK, Ireland and Germany are really not that far from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy and naturally genetic exchange occured. The Mesolithic-Celtic mix produces a swarthy phenotype. Not everyone has that blond Germanic look.

It's twue! It's twue!

People can't accept that the first Europeans were black skinned. The Mesolithic Hunter Gatherer culture. The Middle Eastern Farmers who were fairer skinned and carried the febe for light eyes then came, fought them and mostly displaced them but in Southern Europe and the British Isles many survived. The mix of these people produced several ethnic subgroups like the Celtics and Italics. Then the Yanmaya Steppe Herders who were more pale and light haired invaded and settled in Northern, Eastern and Central Europe displacing a lot of the habitants and became the Germanic, Nordic and Slavic tribes. So many Europeans have swarthy skin, curly hair and broad features not because they are recently mixed with Subsaharan African but because they carry the ancient phenotype and many families carry the genes.

*gene

People think of race as everyone has to be mixed to look the way they do. But it's more of a sequence of events and successive waves of migrations and displacements influenced by many factors. All human populations are mixed since ancient times. The idea of European race is so recent and Europe isn't a real continent. West Eurasian is a more logical term at best since Eurasia is a continent. And North Africans and Arabs look the way they do not because of European DNA, they have ancestry from Ancient East Africans and resemble closely the original Farmer population that took over Europe before their skin and hair lightened from natural selection and later DNA from Steppe Herders. Blue eyes actually are Middle Eastern in origin. So Europeans look like West Asians and North and Subsaharan Africans not the other way around.

He was a brachiocephalic Alpine type, destined to be ruled over by Übermenschen!

Uh oh.

Mama knew Eishenhower.

Eisenhower was one of our best and most accomplished presidents . His central role in the Allied Forces victory in World War II can’t be underestimated. He did a lot to push infrastructure investment during the post-War years (something that needs to happen again now ) . I’m not so concerned about his race background , whatever it was. He was the right man at the right time .

He was a great general, R92.

Just a so-so president.

He was good at keeping the US out of wars.He ended the Korean War and tried to limit US involvement in SE Asia. His big fear was a land war in Asia. He was a horrible speaker but a good executive. Being an eloquent President is kind of overvalued.

He had that Mona Lisa smirk-smile, like Martin Milner.

If evidence was required about when happens when you combine bad education and social media, look no further than this thread.

His mom looked like Helen Hayes.

R97, or maybe like Rosa Parks.

Eisenhower had no problem serving in a segregated Army. Many of his closest Army officer friends were vicious Southern racists. He commuted death sentences for white soldiers but not for Black soldiers.

After all her comments about the coloreds, who knew Mamie craved BBC?

He created the Vietnam War 😩

Not so-- r101. He did a lot to rein in the military, which was eager to escalate in Vietnam after 1954.

R101 is pure misinformation.

No way he was black. His name was DeWhite.

Except "de white" sounds like a black man saying white.

Like jesus and Cleopatra, OP?

R106 Exactly.

Wait. Cleopatra was white. Greek, right?

R108 yes.

Ike’s Life Matters

No, R108: Macedonian.

Cleopatra Jones was black.