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Indianz.Com > Donald Trump supporter ‘Michael the Black Man’ offers odd views on Cherokee Nation and slavery — In an interview with Big John & Ramblin’ Ray on Wednesday morning, Maurice Symonette blamed the Cherokee Nation for initiating the African slave trade. He said most tribal citizens — including Chief Bill John Baker — are “white people” yet went on to claim that Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), a former two-term chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs — is a “full-blooded” Cherokee. “The Cherokee Indians had money and they were the only ones able to even really afford slaves, and almost all of them were the ones that had slaves, and all the slave states were states where reservations were located,” Symonette, who also goes by various other names, told the two radio hosts. But that wasn’t even Symonette’s most outlandish claim. He said the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Cherokees, bringing up one particular leader of the White supremacist group whose claims of Cherokee ancestry have been thoroughly debunked. According to Symonette, the KKK’s characteristic hoods look “like tents because they were indicating that those are tepees and that they were hiding under it.”