Am I missing something? Is my reading comprehension somehow faulty? My mother was a McCoy. Whatever is in the McCoy genes must be present in me and my siblings, and my fifty-plus first cousins and many more cousins more distant. Yet, not one of the several hundred descendants of my great-great-grandfather, Uriah McCoy, brother to Sally and first cousin to Randolph, has ever attacked anyone, so far as I know. They have all been peaceful people by anyone’s standard.
Dean King says of the McCoys: “the family suffers from a rare hereditary condition now known as von Hippel-Lindau disease.” King says: “Friends and adversaries alike are subjected to a hair-trigger temper. At times angry at the world, McCoy family members have described their inability to stand any kind of insult, experiencing rage that turns them red in the face and compels them to fight.” P. 140.
KIing’s own Facebook page makes a lie out of that, as the top posting at this time shows two McCoys, each holding a copy of the book containing that profound insult. Each of the McCoys is smiling! They show no signs of attacking the man who wrote those insults.
King says that Ellison Hatfield, called “a splendid man” in Truda McCoy’s book, was a six foot-six giant who started the fight with the much smaller Tolbert McCoy by threatening Tolbert with a knife. Contradicting every one of the dozens of witnesses who were there that day, both Hatfields and McCoys, King said; “Big Ellison grew more animated. He waved his jackknife in Tolbert’s face.” p. 94.
Just a few posts down from the McCoy post cited above, we see King, surrounded by descendants of Ellison Hatfield,who are helping him peddle the book that contains that egregious lie about their ancestor.
Seriously, am I missing something? Can someone enlighten me? What is it that causes people to assist in spreading lies about themselves and their ancestors?
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