Commentary: Strom’s dark secret
Swanson doesn’t recognize that “millions” of blacks don’t have mixed whites in their families AND this “miscegenation” he condemns as “rape” was also considered an “honor.” The black devotion to the “one drop” myth...
Monthly Archive: December 2003
Critics of Thurmond’s daughter change tune
Critics of Thurmond’s daughter change tune The State by JENNIFER TALHELM and AARON GOULD SHEININ Essie Mae Washington-Williams apparently has won over some of her harshest critics. On Thursday, Thurmond friends and political proteges...
Essie the “Race Traitor”?
Media Backtalk The Washington Post by Howard Kurtz Washington, D.C.: Any comment on the lack of play given to the outrage amongst African-Americans regarding the failure of Strom Thurmond’s illegitimate daughter to “come out”...
Thurmond’s daughter could help races come to terms with shared heritage
Thurmond’s daughter could help races come to terms with shared heritage The State by Warren Bolton NOW THAT ESSIE Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, has put truth on...
Thurmond’s past invites new scrutiny
Thurmond’s past invites new scrutiny: Revelation of his mixed-race daughter will cause re-examination The State by Joseph S. Stroud On July 31, 1948, two weeks after he became the Dixiecrats’ candidate for president, Strom...
What a Family Secret Begat: Essie, Strom and Me
What a Family Secret Begat: Essie, Strom and Me: For One Reporter, 1981 Tip Finally Yields the Big Story by Marilyn W. Thompson The Washington Post Sunday, December 21, 2003; Page D01 When the...
A Story Much Older Than Ol’ Strom
This Colbert I. King is a hypocrite. He denounces “white” males for supposedly exploiting “black” women but wants the products of this alleged exploitation to enrich his “race.” He denounces “whites” who reject mixed...