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Thurmond's Family Acknowledges Black Woman's Claim
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| Dec. 15, 2003
| Amy Edgar
Posted on 12/15/2003 1:02:26 PM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: js1138
We're all still waiting for the AP, NBC, CBS, et al. to jump all over that Danny Williams matter.
To: danneskjold
Strom wasn't racist after all...Yes, but he was a segregationist...Kept his white family separate from his non-white family!
To: Dr. Zzyzx
I hope all those idiots who claimed she was just doing it for the money are now eating crow!
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posted on
12/15/2003 1:52:02 PM PST
by
JudyB1938
(It's a wild world. There's a lot of bad and beware.)
To: Savage Beast
But the human personality is rife with paradoxes and contradictions Aint that the truth.
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posted on
12/15/2003 1:53:02 PM PST
by
Smogger
To: JudyB1938
Separate but equal until you get a "woody."
To: Bluntpoint
Gives meaning to the phrase, "joined at the hip."
To: MainFrame65
If God had intended whites to "intermingle" with blacks he would have made them both with compatible sexual parts.
Oh, wait a minute!
To: Bluntpoint
Strom finally outgrew his appetites - it just took him more years to do it than most.
To: george wythe
It seems that the implication is that black=mixed race Actually by defintion we are ALL black. Being black is defined as having African heritage, and since evolution tells us we all evolved from what is now Africa, I think we can all claim to be black, IMHO.
To: JudyB1938
She told the newspaper she received money at least once a year in sessions arranged by Thurmond's Senate staff. Wheaton said the total over the years was "very substantial" but less than $1 million.Sounds like political hush money.
To: Publius
"When Ol' Strom dies, they're gonna need extra strong coffin nails 'cause his pecker'll pry the lid right off!"Senator John Tower said something similiar in the late 80's or early 90's (I think it was '91).
When that man dies there gonna need to beat his di#k with a baseball bat to close the coffin.
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posted on
12/15/2003 2:40:30 PM PST
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Savage Beast
It boggles the mind to think that he could consider her a very lovely daughter an also be an arch-segregationist. But the human personality is rife with paradoxes and contradictions.Looking over Strom's life and following his bio, it seems he was more or less a politican first and the segragation views he had were mearly his finger in the wind. He contradicted himself over and over again, from his days as a school superintendent who made it a goal to educate blacks and get there scores up ("for county pride of course") to being a laywer who didn't even segregate his own office, to being a judge who ruled against the clan, to being a segragationist canidate and running on that platform repeatedly to being the first senator to hire an african american chief of staff.
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posted on
12/15/2003 2:45:07 PM PST
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Buwahahahaaa..Nothing new here, happens in many wealthy families, where the black slaves/maids were used by their master's or their master's kid's! Not so obvious these days with birth control so rampant, but still a common occurrence. Comes with entitlement and the idea that they OWN whatever they want.
To: jsbankston
Uh,oh now you're in for it.
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posted on
12/15/2003 2:51:21 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: Dr. Zzyzx
I'd just like to point out the conflict between Strom's actions and his campaign against interracial marriage occurred while he was a Democrat.
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posted on
12/15/2003 2:55:55 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Any word from Trent Lott?
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posted on
12/15/2003 2:57:40 PM PST
by
Consort
To: docmcb
Another account I read stated that he left town when she was born. I'm pretty confident that he knew full well that she was his daughter from the time she was born.
Humans are full of complex contradictions. I can only hope that Strom and the girl were mutually attracted to one another. I would hate to think that the 22 year old Strom raped the 16 year old maid.
To: Cobra Scott
Pedophile? A 22-year-old and a 16-year-old is not what one thinks of a typical pedophile relationship. Further, he did acknowledge her, he just didn't go public with it.
But what if he didn't? What recourse to support would a 16-year-old black maid have against the son of a promient wealthy man in Jim Crow S.C.?
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posted on
12/15/2003 3:10:52 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(David Limbaugh never said his brother had a "nose like a vacuum cleaner")
To: jsbankston
LOL, most of the 22-year-old guys I know who knocked up their girlfriends didn't act as honorably as Strom -- unless you call pushing the girl into an abortion honorable.
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posted on
12/15/2003 3:12:22 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(David Limbaugh never said his brother had a "nose like a vacuum cleaner")
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