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Yes and no. Yes Barrack Obama is the first US president, but no he is not the first BLACK president. There has been many black presidents of the countries in Africa.

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Obama is the first US president with any major black ancestry. He father was a native black African but his mother was white, so he is as much white as black. However he seems to prefer to think of himself as black.

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Because it is seem to say that if you have a drop of black (african) blood in you you are said to be black.

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Is there an African American president?

Yes there is,Barack Oboma was the first African American president.


This president is the first African American elected president?

The first and only African-American president in the US is Barack Obama. President Bill Clinton was jokingly called "America's first black president" because he had many black friends and promoted policies that helped black people, but Mr. Clinton was white. Barack Obama is in fact African-American, and when he was elected in 2008, he became the country's first black president.


Is Barack Obama's father Arab or Muslim?

In order to become President, you must be a citizen of the United States. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, in Hawaii in 1961. Also, contrary to internet myths, he is not an Arab, nor does he have any Arabs in his family, and he did not visit any Arab countries till the 1980s. His father was born in Africa, his mother was born in Kansas, and he has a half-sister who was born in Indonesia.


Who were the first seven black presidents before Barack Obama?

Barack Obama, whose father was black, is the only US President with any known African ancestry. The related link is likely the source of your question. I think the moral is that anybody can post anything on the Internet, but that posting does not make it true. On the other hand, if you are asking about other places in the world, there have certainly been black presidents or prime ministers in several African countries, including Ghana, Uganda, and South Africa.


Why does the United States have a black president?

People voted for him. Very few voters thought negatively of the race or skin color of Barack Obama. And for the record, Mr. Obama is as "white" as he is "black," being born to a white/American mother and a black/African father.