STROM THURMOND: Daughter’s silence slowed America’s racial reckoning
ROBERT STEINBACK
The Miami Herald
Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, has earned the favorable verdict of the court of public opinion for the gentle way in which she revealed the secret of her parentage — Strom Thurmond, the late senator and one-time segregationist presidential candidate, and a 16-year-old black maid named Carrie Butler.
My personal jury, however, is hung. I think Washington-Williams should be damned angry.
I agree with you. Essie Mae should be very upset at the way her father Strom Thurmond treated her and about his facists views. That is certainly a slap in the face for a man to have a child with a black woman and then go out and do everything in his power to hurt the black race. I think that man was twisted. I know that ultimately it’s between him and God.