Category: Featured Writers

“Black” intellectuals like to categorize all “miscegenation” between Southern “white” males and “black” or mixed females before the Civil Rights era as “rape.” That may make the “white” liberals feel […]

This article is from July. Southern Liberal Diane McWhorter doesn’t get it. By calling Strom’s daughter “black,” she only validates the ideology that demanded that all Southern “white” persons refuse […]

News conference creates huge media buzz The State by JOSEPH S. STROUD People magazine was there. So was the Economist. So were all three networks, CNN, and virtually every local […]

Thurmond story reflects times, historians say The Greenville News By Dan Hoover A part of the South that was – and some say still is – has resurfaced for newcomers […]

Strom: We hardly knew thee by Tyler Paterson Dec. 15, 2003 Oh, how I love politicians. This week a 78-year-old Los Angeles woman came forward with the claim that she […]

Armstrong Williams: For the record December 15, 2003 The truth has a biological advantage. It doesn’t need the artifice of man to survive. It lives and breathes freely on its […]

Thurmond’s grandson breaks silence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Wednesday, December 17, 2003 · Last updated 3:44 p.m. PT CENTRALIA, Wash. — Following his mother’s lead, a 53-year-old doctor in […]

‘At Last I Feel Completely Free’: Mixed-Race Daughter of the Late Strom Thurmond Steps Into Spotlight by Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 18, 2003; Page A02 COLUMBIA, […]

Thurmond Paternity Marilyn W. Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 16, 2003; 3:00 PM After decades of denials, the family of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) acknowledged yesterday […]

Thurmond’s Legacy by Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 17, 2003; 12:53 PM I just finished watching Essie Mae Washington-Williams on television. It was a moving few minutes. […]