A Black President From 1933

By The Daily Dish

The popular culture has prepared us for this moment - in all the wrong ways. Here's Sammy Davis Jr at the age of seven as future president, Rufus Jones. He sho' can dance.

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The movie is a short. The second half after the jump. A watermelon investigator??

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