The item about Ms. Wallis was widely re-tweeted but also drew quick condemnation from followers of The Onion’s Twitter account,

This is one of the most iconic images of protest in American history.

If any of this information is true, it would seem that President Barack Obama is only the first Black president to embrace his African ancestry.

That question was never more powerfully expressed than in the penultimate line posed by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions in the title track of their 1969 album, “This Is My Country:”