John McCain's African-American Cousins - The Black side of the McCain family tree

November 7, 2008

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.

Other relatives are not as generous.

Lillie McCain, 56, another distant cousin of John McCain who is Black, said the Republican presidential nominee is trying to hide his past, and refuses to accept the family's history.

She said the senator never responded to her email.

Although Charles is uncertain who will get his vote for president, several of John McCain's Black and White relatives are supporting his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.

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, Mich.

Charles McCain and his wife, Theresa, who still live in Teoc, started the reunions over a decade ago. Charles is the deacon of Mitchell Springs Baptist Church, the only Black house of worship in the area.

When Theresa McCain started the family reunions in the late 1980s or early 90s (neither he nor his wife is sure of the exact starting date), only Black family members attended. But as word spread about the gatherings, White members of the McCain family got involved. Today, the reunion has expanded to the point where it is becoming a community event.

The reunion's website, teocfamilyreunion.ning.com, has pictures, postings and other information about the family gatherings. While Sen. McCain's brother, Joe, and many of his other White relatives attend the reunions, family members say Sen. McCain has never acknowledged them, or even responded to their invitations.


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A little known fact I found interesting, especially the "denial" aspect of it.

Both Bush and Cheney are actually related to Obama, too. Seriously.

Obama is vice-president's distant cousin, says Cheney's wife
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles, guardian.co.uk
Thursday October 18 2007

Barack Obama makes much of his varied heritage. His father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. But there is one element of his family history that has remained obscure: his eighth cousin is Dick Cheney. The revelation that the man promising a new style of politics is related to a vice-president credited with an unprecedented attempt to consolidate the power of old politics was made by Mr Cheney's wife.

Lynne Cheney told an interviewer that she discovered the connection between her husband and the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination while researching a memoir of growing up in Wyoming, entitled Blue Skies, No Fences, although she did not include this fact in her memoir. She said that the two were both descended from a man who moved to Wyoming from Maryland.

"If you go back eight generations they have a common ancestor," she said. "This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama." A spokeswoman for Mrs Cheney said that Mr Obama was descended from Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot. His son married the granddaughter of one Richard Cheney, Susannah, who arrived in Maryland from England in the late 1650s.

The Duvalls are Mr Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and the vice-president's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. A spokesman for Mr Obama made the wry observation that "every family has a black sheep". Last month the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the equally startling news that Mr Obama is an 11th cousin of President George Bush, thanks to a 17th-century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole.

The Guardian

Hmm, maybe the normal folk are finally seeing the Illuminati as they really are, inbreeding alien/human analogues.

Quote:

"every family has a black sheep"

LMAO

I've got first cousins I'm not too happy to be associated with (they're outright racist).

I think this is a lot more common than folks think, especially in the south. Personally I've always been intrigued by it. There's a strong hint that Cherokee is in my family on my mother's side, and for all we know, there may be more than that. I wish we knew for sure, I think it'd be cool. Even as far back as we've done the family tree, it's hard to account for everyone. Consider how many people it quickly adds up to. We've traced back seven generations on my father's side. So we know 1-3 at that time out of 128 people. Kinda mind blowing. If you went back to just the 1600's - just so I could exist it's taken 8,190 people. Any chance some of us here on PRO are related? Go back far enough, I'd guarantee it.

1980--1950--1920--1890--1860--1830--1800--1770--(arrival from Europe)--1740--1710--1680--1650--1620 [360 years]

Me-------2-------4-------8-------16------32-----64----128-----------------------------------256---512---1024--2048--4096 [8190 people]

kanaloa wrote:

I think this is a lot more common than folks think, especially in the south. Personally I've always been intrigued by it. There's a strong hint that Cherokee is in my family on my mother's side, and for all we know, there may be more than that. I wish we knew for sure, I think it'd be cool. Even as far back as we've done the family tree, it's hard to account for everyone. Consider how many people it quickly adds up to. We've traced back seven generations on my father's side. So we know 1-3 at that time out of 128 people. Kinda mind blowing. If you went back to just the 1600's - just so I could exist it's taken 8,190 people. Any chance some of us here on PRO are related? Go back far enough, I'd guarantee it. 1980--1950--1920--1890--1860--1830--1800--1770--(arrival from Europe)--1740--1710--1680--1650--1620 Me-------2-------4-------8-------16-------32-------64-------128----------------------------256---512---1024--2048--4096

There is a test you can take that will tell you the nearly the exact percentage of mixture you are. It probably is expensive... I've only seen it done on Discovery channel specials where they surprise white people by showing them they are actually 17% West African .

gries818 wrote:

There is a test you can take that will tell you the nearly the exact percentage of mixture you are. It probably is expensive... I've only seen it done on Discovery channel specials where they surprise white people by showing them they are actually 17% West African .

LOL, exactly. When a 'cousin' might actually be your cousin.

People get too uptight about this stuff I think. I think diversity is cool, it's why I like HI (where no one is a majority or minority) and this country as a whole. I wish the whole country was more mixed and it likely will be in due time. I thought I read something that said by 2032 white's will no longer be the majority in the U.S. So I'll be 52.

kanaloa wrote:

gries818 wrote: There is a test you can take that will tell you the nearly the exact percentage of mixture you are. It probably is expensive... I've only seen it done on Discovery channel specials where they surprise white people by showing them they are actually 17% West African . LOL, exactly. When a 'cousin' might actually be your cousin. People get too uptight about this stuff I think. I think diversity is cool, it's why I like HI (where no one is a majority or minority) and this country as a whole. I wish the whole country was more mixed and it likely will be in due time. I thought I read something that said by 2032 white's will no longer be the majority in the U.S. So I'll be 52.

I thought that it was 2050 but with the immigration rates only getting higher, I'm sure it will be sooner. Honestly, I really don't care if I'm in the racial minority... but it will be an adjustment.

But luckily for us, we've already made all the mistakes a majority can make... here's hoping the minority learned from them... because it's their turn next haha.