the_real_38
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Sat Dec-13-03 10:47 PM
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Strom Thurmond's black daughter finally comes clean.. |
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... it's been rumored down here in Souf Cackalackie for a long time, and now she's finally going to announce it to the world: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/13/thurmond..paternity.ap/index.htmlWonder what Trent Lott will say about that?
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Sat Dec-13-03 11:10 PM
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Now, the reaction to this will be pretty interesting, I'd say.
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Sat Dec-13-03 11:11 PM
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...it brings up some bad memories, but ultimatly good to confront. My family is FULL of this stuff. From rape to real interacial marriage. God bless her for waiting this long.
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Sat Dec-13-03 11:28 PM
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3. Well I'll tell ya what, as a southerner born in Alabama.... |
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Lots of people in our society as a whole have children outside of marriage, race makes no difference. But considering the public stance that Thurmond took towards African Americans during his run as a dixiecrat...(i.e. birth of the modern day GOP), even though his own daughter (if this is true, of course it makes no difference)was black...all I can say is....
Good bye forever Strom, it will be up to the good lord as to whether your dark soul should burn in hell, but if there's justice out there I know where you are right now.
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Sat Dec-13-03 11:31 PM
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4. I really, REALLY hope the |
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repuke press and media whores don't go after her and try to tear her down the way I'm afraid they will. Wonder if Trent Lott will ascribe it to a "youthful indiscretion?"
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Sat Dec-13-03 11:40 PM
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You know that Strom kept that secret inside him all those years. I hope he did the right thing by supporting the mother, and his kid, but I doubt it.
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Sun Dec-14-03 01:53 AM
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6. betcha he is turning over in his grave |
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In the article that I just read she is 78. Strom was 22 and her mom was the 16 yr old maid. Starting in the forties he sent her money, so he basically supported her as long as she kept her mouth shut. His widow said that she didn't know anything about it. Yeah right!
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Sun Dec-14-03 01:56 AM
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7. Uh-oh, Strom's a "race mixer"?? |
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Guess who just got kicked out of Hell's chapter of the KKK?
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Sun Dec-14-03 02:45 AM
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Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 02:52 AM by Isome
.::.blackcommentator article.::."... At the same time he was preaching segregation now and forever, Thurmond discreetly was financing the education of a black coed business administration major at all-black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.
...had it become known at the time, could have ended Thurmond's remarkable political career before it even got started, said Southern historian Robert Sherrill.
Thurmond's relationship with and support of this black woman has continued to this day, according to the woman's in-laws and members of Thurmond's Senate staff.
...those who knew of the unusual relationship back then see no contradiction in Thurmond's championing segregation while helping a young black woman get ahead in life...
...in supporting a black woman he supposedly sired, remained loyal to one of the codes of his youth, said Bennettsville lawyer Frank E. Cain, a classmate of the woman purported to be the senator's daughter at South Carolina State in the late 1940s.
That code required white boys, who often learned about sex "on the colored side of town," to take care of any children they fathered.
..."That's the old South."
...The story of Essie Washington is well-known in South Carolina among people, black and white, who lived in the state and were active in politics in the late 1940s and 1950s when this tale circulated widely." Someone remarked that it was too bad "we" didn't know about this sooner. WE'VE always known about this, and we've always tried to communicate to people that instances like these weren't uncommon. What's too bad is that some Americans, those wearing black skin, are not taken seriously when relaying our perspectives or stories, based on hundreds of years of oral history and many decades of written history. Had ya' listened, you would have heard of this. At the very least, few would be surprised, nor in any way in doubt of the veracity of the tale.
There's not much pity that needs to be directed her way. She chose to remain silent. At first it could be chalked up to attitudes of the era, now it can only be explained by the fact that he WAS her daddy and it afforded her a decent life. At any point after the mid-70's she could have spoken out, but she apparently felt no compunction about his duplicity, her benefit from it, nor the horrific beliefs that brought her into being.
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Sun Dec-14-03 03:14 AM
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9. She's his eldest child, too. |
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He didn't sire the others till he was past 60, I think. I hope she gets her share.
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Sun Dec-14-03 03:40 AM
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Next you know they'll discover that their present Republican senator is a closeted homosexual!
Well, it _could_ happen! :D
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Sun Dec-14-03 11:05 AM
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11. As usual the hypocrisy is overwhelming.... |
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As with Newt Gingrich pounding on Clinton while all the time he had a little dolly on the side while married,Dan Burton with his illegitimate son.
Rush Limbaugh saying drug users should be deported out of the country mainly because they are such a DRAG on our society, while all the time snarfing down drugs as fast as he could illegally buy them.
And now ole' Strom. He didn't think blacks should be anything to our Country and society except slaves and doormats. Guess a black woman was fine though for a roll in the sack.
David
"Have I said lately just how much I HATE these people" Mike Malloy
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