Descendents of slaves owned by ancestors of John McCain will vote for Barack Obama

[avaistheone1]

Lillie McCain, 56, a professor of psychology in Flint, Michigan, traces her lineage from two of more than 120 black slaves before the end of the Civil War at Teoc, the Mississippi plantation owned by the family of Republican nominee John McCain's great-great-grandfather.

"I think that since we can't undo what has been done, that the most effective thing for us to do is figure out how to put things in perspective and go from there.

"To harbour anger and hostility and all that is counterproductive," she told the Wall Street Journal.

A cousin of Mr McCain still owns 1,500 acres of the original 2,000.

Mr McCain's younger brother, Joe, and other white McCains have attended family reunions organised by the African-American McCains.

Lillie McCain's family is descended from two slaves, named Isom and Lettie, according to interviews and examinations of family documents, county files and U.S. Census Bureau records.

According to members of the white McCain family, the plantation was purchased by Mr McCain's great-great-grandfather, William Alexander McCain, in 1851.

"We've had the pleasure of meeting Joe McCain," she said, "He attends the reunions at Teoc ... I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Senator McCain.

"I heard him say on, I believe it was Meet the Press, that his ancestors owned no slaves. Well, I certainly have carried the name McCain from the beginning of my life, and I've known the ties to John McCain, and have tried to get him to communicate with me about that, but he has been unwilling at least to date."

Miss McCain urged John McCain to "acknowledge the reality of the relationship that we hold."

"I am absolutely supporting Obama, and it's not because he's black," said Lillie. "It's because he is the best person at this time in our history."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3232080/Descendents-of-slaves-owned-by-ancestors-of-John-McCain-will-vote-for-Barack-Obama.html

[Quantess]

1. Very interesting. I did not know John McCain was a descendant of slave owners.

It figures.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. So is Barack Obama.

So am I, for that matter. We can't help who our ancestors are.

[avaistheone1]

6. Seriously, is Obama a descendant of slaves?

Excuse my ignorance, but I thought his paternal ancestors were from Kenya. His father is a native of Kenya and was a high-level government official there from what I understand.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Not of slaves, of slave OWNERS.

Reading comprehension is a good thing.

[No Elephants]

14. Obama is a descendant of slave owners and of people who fought in the Revolution and in the

Civl War (maybe on both sides--don't know. They were spread out.). He is also a distant relative of, among many others, Presidents Bush and Truman and VP Cheney. But I do not hold his ancient ties to slave owners or Buscho against him. Only Pubs do things like that.

[avaistheone1]

15. A little sleep is even better.

[Quantess]

7. Do you know that? Where did you hear that?

Not that it would matter, it is true that we can't help who our ancestors were.
I know that my ancestors were not slave owners. I am a first generation American, whose parents are from a country that never owned slaves (not that I deserve a medal or anything, LOL).

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. I'm distantly related to Obama, and our common ancestor was a slave owner

and it was in the news a while back, too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/04/uselections2008.barackobama

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/03/obamas_tangled_roots.html

[Hieronymus]

11. Thanks for the article. Some free blacks owned slaves, as well.

[Chloroplast]

2. Why does McCain insist on lying about stupid shit?

Who would believe that a Mississippi plantation of over 1,000 acres would be slave-free in the antebellum South?

[Heather MC]

3. Awesome Story, McLame is a fucking dumb dick, How can he lie about it when

the fucking land is still in his family.

I don't care that his family owned slaves, but I do care the both he and Cindy like to lie about family history.

[avaistheone1]

5. I agree. McCain lacks integrity.

It is much more than just disagreeing about policy. McCain just can not be honest.

[tblue]

10. That's why I call him Dishonest John.

Detestable pig.

[Heather MC]

13. STOP INSULTING

PIGS!!!
:rofl:

[tblue]

16. Okay. You had me for a minute.

I heart piggies. They be soooo cute, the little ones!

[Dems4me]

12. bump n/t