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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a lot black people in rural Kansas in the 80s. Or Nebraska or Iowa or Minnesota or South Dakota. I lived in one of those towns and there wasn’t any diversity, except for migrant farm workers.

Get over it, OP. [/quote]

But there have definitely been some Black people in rural Kansas since the 1950s. [b]Some people think [/b]Eisenhower was partly Black: https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-black-roots-of-ex-president-dwight-d-eisenhower/[/quote]

That doesn't make it true. There are several weird things going on in this very strange cultural moment we are living in. First of all, just because something [b]may feel true [/b]to you or even a subset of people, that doesn't mean it actually happened.

No doubt, some famous people could reasonably have hidden Black ancestry. There is, however, a whole industry built on going around appropriating people and histories that have nothing to do with actual Black people. It is beyond terrible that Black Americans have been separated from their actual pre-Modern stories, and that so much of those stories were lost. That doesn't mean, because so much is unknowable, that you can just make stuff up and insist it be taken as fact. That's not history, either.[/quote]

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