21 Oct 08 McCain’s Black Relatives Support Obama

Over the years McCain has done little to help improve race relations in America. He opposed removing the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina state flag. He opposed the Martin Luther King holiday. He supported the openly racist former governor of Arizona, Evan Mecham.

You’d never guess that John McCain is directly related to black descendants of the former slaves of his family’s plantation. In point of fact, John McCain has numerous mixed-race relatives. His brother attends the family reunions in Carroll County, Mississippi, but John not only refuses to attend, he refuses to acknowledge that these relatives even exist.

“I am absolutely supporting Obama, and it’s not because he’s black. It’s because he is the best person at this time in our history,” said Lillie McCain, a professor of psychology at Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan.

“After hearing [McCain] in 2000 claim his family never owned slaves, I sent him an email,” she recalled. “I told him no matter how much he denies it, it will not make it untrue, and he should accept this and embrace it.”

South Florida Times link:
http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2041&Itemid=42

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for finding this story

Tags: McCain, Obama, race relations