To: ChildOfThe60s
"...Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather."
They may have been trying to spin the headline to make it ("relative") sound closer, but it's actually farther. Sen. Thurmond was already on a different branch of his family tree by the time Coleman Sharpton came into the picture. All this says was that the slave-owner had a common grandfather with the line that led to the Senator.
39 posted on
02/25/2007 3:38:39 PM PST by
omnivore
To: omnivore
Could we clear all this up by having Sen. Trent Lott apologize about 500 more times? Or resign some committee position?
40 posted on
02/25/2007 3:40:09 PM PST by
omnivore
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