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.
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.
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