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Strom's Skeleton-The late segregationist's black daughter
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| 7/1/03
| Diane McWhorter
Posted on 07/01/2003 2:58:17 PM PDT by aShepard
Strom's Skeleton The late segregationist's black daughter. By Diane McWhorter Posted Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 12:11 PM PT
In all the words spent on Strom Thurmond's life and times since his death last week, I have seen no acknowledgment of the most interesting of his sundry racial legacies. She is Essie Mae Washington Williams, a widowed former school teacher in her 70s, living in Los Angeles. Presumably she did not show up for any of the obsequies even though Strom Thurmond was almost certainly her father. Williams is black.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085087/
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: braad; stromthurmond
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:58:17 PM PDT
by
aShepard
To: aShepard
i am quite sure Slate must have confused Strom with Sheets Byrd.....
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:59:37 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: aShepard
was almost certainly her father...present persuasive evidence...he reputedly had an extended relationship... I ain't buying it. Sounds like Bravo Sierra being dumped on a dead man to me.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:04:25 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
To: aShepard
This is a disgusting paragraph.
As for God, I can't help but wonder if Thurmond felt he had been forsaken by the all-merciful Christian deity and stumbled into the tragic realm of Greek fate when, in 1993, a drunk driver hit and killed the 22-year-old white daughter he did acknowledge, just before she was to enter the Miss South Carolina contest. In any case, if Thurmond seemed to continually elude the harsh verdict of history, now he faces divine judgment. In Doug Marlette's recent editorial cartoon, the angel greeting Ol' Strom at heaven's gate is black. And the sign reads: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."
To: Jeff Head
Is this a new revelation? How does one hide such a thing for 70 years and lead a very public life??? And on top of that - what does it matter and why?
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:07:17 PM PDT
by
CAPPSMADNESS
(To fear death is to misunderstand life.)
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: CAPPSMADNESS
Like I said...sounds like someone dumping Bravo Sierra on a dead man to try and get a little attention...or a lot of money. Just my opinion.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:13:18 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: Jeff Head
Exactly! The dems have to discredit anybody who switched from the dem party to the repub party.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:13:57 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
To: Jeff Head
Notice that old Diane saved this column until after Strom was safely dead, and hence couldn't sue...
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:16:36 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde)
To: seamole
what does it matter and why? well seriously, he is dead now - what bearing does this have at this time? Couldn't this have waited until his family was just a few more hours past the actual burial?
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:17:43 PM PDT
by
CAPPSMADNESS
(To fear death is to misunderstand life.)
To: aShepard
"....story never got traction...." Well, DUH.
Couldn't even wait until his burial before smearing him.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:18:23 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
To: aShepard
was almost certainly her father...
Everyone knows she was Clinton's daughter. :>)
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:19:13 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: aShepard
Thurmond, like Clinton, had a reputation as a skirt chaser. Like Thurmond, Clinton was also reputed to have fathered a child by a black woman. The child that was supposedly Clinton's son, like the woman who was allegedly Thurmond's daughter, received an education far beyond the means of the mother. The difference between Clinton's interracial dalliance and Thurmond's is that the elite media forgave and buried the former's sins while using the latter's as a means to castigate the late South Carolina senator, and by extension, all conservative white Southern politicians.
But such behavior from the liberal media is standard operating procedure.
To: Howlin; Carolinamom; Miss Marple; ewing; MeeknMing; PhiKapMom
FYI
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:19:37 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
To: aShepard
Sounds like script from In The Heat in The Night...
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:24:35 PM PDT
by
OREALLY
To: aShepard
So what if he had a daughter of color? It only proves that he wasn't too much of a racist if he was procreating with an African American woman. Let the author try to put the piece forward as a smear, we can take it as proof of his lack of prejudice.
To: aShepard
Damn...... I knew Strom was getting on up in age..... but a "founding father"......
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:33:34 PM PDT
by
deport
( BUSH/CHENEY 2004...... with or without the showboy)
To: seamole
BRAAD: The Bigot & Redneck Alliance Against Defamation (BRAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating bigophobia and discrimination based on free association and personal preferences. This is our list The WHAT?!?! Bigot and Redneck Alliance against Defamation? Now I have seen everything on FR. I guess anyone can form a bump list.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:37:03 PM PDT
by
Smogger
To: general_re
"Notice that old Diane saved this column until after Strom was safely dead, and hence couldn't sue."
This is not a new story. A little research will reveal that. Now, does anyone know any black guys with white daughters?
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