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 […]
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Relevant links to news of interest to the multiracial, interracial and transracial adoptee community.
Brent Staples, Thurmond and the New York Times
Brent Staples is such a hypocrite. Most of his columns are devoted to promoting the “one drop” myth of “light-skinned blacks” and “passing for white.” He admits that blacks are […]
Read moreOl’ Strom and Me
Ol’ Strom and Me By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet December 15, 2003 The skeleton that rattled in the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s closet with the revelation that he […]
Read moreSouth African “Coloureds”
1. Why coloureds can’t shed a troubled identity As the Democratic Alliance began devouring itself over the past few weeks and New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced his […]
Read more“One drop” in South Africa
IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT THE WRITER HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE THE SAME “ONE DROP” MYTHS IN THEIR OWN WAY. IT’S INTERESTING HOW THIS […]
Read moreIrish Slavery
Most Americans are led to believe that slavery was synonymous with “black” or “African.” Slavery is a system of selfishness and profit that turns the vulnerable into chattel – whatever […]
Read moreAmerican gothic
American gothic Salon By Rebecca Traister In 1948, while running for president of the United States on the Dixiecrat ticket, Strom Thurmond proclaimed, “All the laws of Washington and all […]
Read moreStrom’s daughter shows what class — not race — is all about
Strom’s daughter is class act TownHall.com by Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. Ask most thoughtful South Carolinians what they think about Essie Mae Washington-Williams – Strom Thurmond’s biracial daughter who publicly […]
Read moreThurmond’s Grandson
Posted on 12/19/2003 6:04:05 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative Check out the responses on the link: CENTRALIA, Wash. — Following his mother’s lead, a 53-year-old doctor in Onalaska has come forward […]
Read moreCommentary: 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 […]
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