Doug Blackmon over at the Wall Street Journal has written a fascinating article about the descendants of slaves owned by John McCain's family in Mississippi. It is a heartwarming story about the "black McCains" and the "white McCains" reaching out to each other to come to grips with the past.
Here's a link and an excerpt: "When George McCain was killed in a traffic accident in 2003, Frank Bryant, the aged former sharecropper, invited to the funeral Bill McCain, the senator's cousin, who owns the remaining 1,500 acres of Teoc plantation and lives nearby. It was the beginning of a modern dialogue between the two families as equals. At the service, Mr. McCain stood in the family section with the black McCains."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419511761942501.html?mod=article-outset-box