Posted on 10/21/2008 5:11:27 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Thank you for your honesty Ms. McCain.
What about the descendants of slaves owned by the ancestors of Obama?
Once a slave, always a slave, I guess. She’s staying on the Democrat PLANTATION! What PARTY did the Slave OWNER BELONG TO???
Do are the descendents of slaves owned by ancestors of Barack Obama going to vote for John McCain?
He should just get on TV right away and say “Yes my family owned slaves way way way back in the past, but today I am a proud father of an African American daughter who I love deeply.”
Kenyan muslims and arab muslims owned slaves, too- and they and their descendants also will be voting for Obama. Isn’t it wonderful?
I always knew McCain was a racist bastard! /s
Exactly
Like..DAH...over 90% of Black voters always, year after year, after year, after year vote for the Democrats so this is news? Some things never change. Like poverty and taxes and blacks voting for Democrats who promise to fix poverty with taxes year after year after year.....
Descendents of slaves owned by John McCain ancestors to vote for Barack Hussein Obama whose ancestors sold them into slavery in the first place
I mean...if you want to go down that road U.K. Telegraph, might as well have full disclosure.
McCain does not have an African American daughter. She’s Eastern Indian, isn’t she?
McCain does not have an African American daughter. She’s Eastern Indian, isn’t she?
Oops my mistake. For some reason I thought she was from a country in Africa.
Who was it stated?/ every Black person in America should kiss the ground they stand on. They could still be in the great country of Africa eating fly’s, and cow dung!!!!!!!!
THIS JUST IN: “Blacks to vote for Obama”
If this is not the damned dumbest headline of this whole campaign then I don't know what is. What's next, "Descendents of slave owning ancestors of Obama's mother voting for McCain"?
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