Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth

Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth
The New York Times
December 20, 2003
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond’s mixed-race daughter, she walked away “completely free” of a burden she had borne privately for decades.

Now members of Mr. Thurmond’s sprawling family, a well-connected dynasty in South Carolina, say they are the ones struggling.

The sudden, very public arrival of Ms. Washington-Williams to the family has stirred a mix of frustration, curiosity, discomfort and shame, several relatives of the late Mr. Thurmond said today, speaking about the news for the first time.

One comment

  1. To the emotionally scarred and self-denigrating quadroon A.D. Powell, most white people are sinless angels. It’s just the evil blacks who are villains of racism.
    I guess you’ll ignore the Thurmonds who said they feel shame about their mulatto relative and just vilify only the blacks as usual.

    1/4/2004 4:14:28 AM

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