Category: A Mixed Blog

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, […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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; […]

This “Jabari Asim” character sounds jealous. This myth that all “miscegenation” involving “whites” males was “rape,” doesn’t hide the jealousy “black” males feel when “white” males are preferred as sexual […]

Thurmond’s Daughter, Free at Last by David S. Broder The Washington Post Sunday, December 21, 2003; Page B07 She entered the hotel ballroom slowly, her head high, a small woman […]

Darryl Fears’ article is a set-up. There are no stories of loving, accepting white relatives to balance the negative stories. It’s another “black” attempt to scare people into accepting the […]

I Am Strom Thurmond’s Daughter (5 Letters) The New York Times December 19, 2003