Strom's Skeleton-The late segregationist's black daughter

MSN ^ | 7/1/03 | Diane McWhorter

[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/

[aShepard]

Didn't see this posted yet

[xsmommy]

i am quite sure Slate must have confused Strom with Sheets Byrd.....

[Jeff Head]

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.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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."

[CAPPSMADNESS]

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?

[Jeff Head]

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.

[CyberAnt]

Exactly! The dems have to discredit anybody who switched from the dem party to the repub party.

[general_re]

Notice that old Diane saved this column until after Strom was safely dead, and hence couldn't sue...

[CAPPSMADNESS]

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?

[onyx]

"....story never got traction...." Well, DUH.

Couldn't even wait until his burial before smearing him.

[boycott]

was almost certainly her father...

Everyone knows she was Clinton's daughter. :>)

[Wallace T.]

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.

[onyx]

FYI

[OREALLY]

Sounds like script from In The Heat in The Night...

[BritExPatInFla]

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.

[deport]

Damn...... I knew Strom was getting on up in age..... but a "founding father"......

[Smogger]

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The WHAT?!?! Bigot and Redneck Alliance against Defamation? Now I have seen everything on FR. I guess anyone can form a bump list.

[billhilly]

"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?