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McCain's Great Grand Father was a Slave Owner, and His Black Family.....

g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
edited October 2008 in A Moving Train
....doesn't know if they are going to support him.


I Registered and while reading on the Sean hannity forum and a post reminded me of McCain's family's past and I came across this. I'm sure many here already know about this but I found it interesting just the same.
In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.

Some of McCain’s black family members say they are not sure exactly where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the McCains fathered with their slaves.

White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.

“Why he hasn’t come is anybody’s guess,” said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a distant cousin of John McCain who is black. “I think the best I can come up with, is that he doesn’t have time, or he has just distanced himself, or it doesn’t mean that much to him.”

Here's the article or some of you can check this for yourself...McCain's Great Grand Father was a Slave Owner, and his black family doesn't know if they are going to support him. Why do you think?
Some of McCain's black relatives support Obama

Does this matter that McCain has a black history? What do you think?

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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    I don't see how it is relevant whether his great grandparents had slaves or not, nor do I see how it's relevant that he has black family members.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Collin wrote:
    I don't see how it is relevant whether his great grandparents had slaves or not, nor do I see how it's relevant that he has black family members.

    I agree but it did come up on that Sean Hannity site.

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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • OffHeGoes29OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    Doesn't matter one bit, but some people seem to think so.
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    Does he acknowledge that they are his relatives?
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    scb wrote:
    Does he acknowledge that they are his relatives?

    It appears he knows but he doesn't want it to be know.

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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    What does this have to do with anything?
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  • pjfan020pjfan020 Posts: 426
    yeah this was on cnn. there's no bad blood btwn the living decendants of the slaves and the Mccains.. and even Mccain's brother has attended family reunions with the black members of the "family" as well. Not sure if the thread was started to "expose" this but it's not an issue.
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,639
    I bet Obama has no family history of slave ownership.

    He is the betterman.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    pjfan020 wrote:
    yeah this was on cnn. there's no bad blood btwn the living decendants of the slaves and the Mccains.. and even Mccain's brother has attended family reunions with the black members of the "family" as well. Not sure if the thread was started to "expose" this but it's not an issue.

    Nah just surprised reading about it on the Hannity site.

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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    g under p wrote:
    Does this matter that McCain has a black history? No.

    What do you think? Not much.

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    That's all I got on this non-issue.
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