When will we see the first article about John McCain’s problem with black people, real people?
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You’ll see it when the first adult Republican makes a statement about it. The media will then have permission. Don’t hold your breath, though. I suspect those “adults” are all hiding under their beds.
Right after you see Pat Robertson officiate the marriage of an interracial gay couple in San Francisco…
the day he states how many “black” friends he has and when he talkes about the “brown” person who keeps his lawn at his house. How can you be normal when your wife has a net worth that is equal to the GDP of some states?/
Do the McCains have those jockey thingies on their lawn?
Maybe kid John can’t help it
McCain was born in Carroll County, Mississippi, the son of plantation owner[3] John Sidney McCain (b. Mississippi, 1851 – d. 1934) and wife Elizabeth-Ann Young (b. Mississippi, 1855 – d. 1922),
Let me add this
John McCain’s Mississippi Roots
Jake Tapper (now of ABC) and Arkansas journalist Suzi Parker wrote a piece for Salon back in 2000 during the last presidential election in which they revealed to the world, and to McCain, that his family in Mississippi had owened 52 slaves in Carroll County (incidentally Trent Lott’s home county and a hotbed for the Citizens Council back in the day):
The family’s storied military history stretches back to Carroll County, Miss., where McCain’s great-great grandfather William Alexander McCain owned a plantation, and later died during the Civil War as a soldier for the Mississippi cavalry.
But what McCain didn’t know about his family until Tuesday was that William Alexander McCain had owned 52 slaves. The senator seemed surprised after Salon reporters showed him documents gathered from Carroll County Courthouse, the Carrollton Merrill Museum, the Mississippi State Archives and the Greenwood, Miss., Public Library.
“I didn’t know that,” McCain said in measured tones wearing a stoic expression during a midday interview, as he looked at the documents before Tuesday night’s debate.
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It would seem, though, that McCain should have known about the slavery past because his cousin had written about in a book that he supposedly had read:
The writer Elizabeth Spencer, a cousin to John McCain, does mention the family’s slaves in her family memoir, “Landscapes of the Heart,” — a book McCain and his co-author Slater both say they have read, though they say not closely enough to have caught her glancing references to the family’s slaves.
Early in Spencer’s book, she refers casually to the issue in a reference to her family’s history. “All the descendents of slave-holding families I have ever known believe in the benevolence of their forebears as master,” she wrote.
Yeah… how do you run a deep south plantation without slaves?
McCain might not have known how many slaves it took to do the work, or what their jobs were, but Mississippi was a slave state economy and plantations are agricultural enterprises worked by the cheapest possible labor force.
It would have been better for him to acknowledge the slaveholding in his family, mention that it was typical of a long past era (Washington and Jefferson) and that we are wiser than that now. But he chose to appear ignorant.
Meanwhile, I take pleasure in the name of the familial plantation: WAVERLY. It suits an unreliable clowning flip-flopper who can’t remember his lines from one speech to the next.