{"id":4897,"date":"2004-01-09T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2017-02-06T00:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:36:15","slug":"thurmonds-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/09\/thurmonds-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurmond’s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got an email from professor\/author Kevin R. Johnson today. Here’s an excerpt from a commentary he wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, January 4, 2004, on Strom Thurmond’s daughter and the enduring taboo on black\/white marriages<\/a><\/p>\n

The nation recently learned from the mixed-race daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., that he was her father. Essie Mae Washington- Williams’ story is especially intriguing because Thurmond, for much of his political career, was a staunch segregationist and a fierce opponent of civil rights for African Americans.<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is that, as Washington-Williams herself emphasizes, racial mixture long has been a part of the American experience. In the days of slavery, intimate liaisons — often involuntary — were common between white men and black women, with the most well-known probably being that between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve corresponded with Kevin in the past and its good to see him weigh in on this issue. In August 2000, he was kind enough to allow The Multiracial Activist<\/a> to publish an excerpt to his book How Did You Get to Be Mexican?: A White\/Brown Man’s Search for Identity<\/a><\/i>. You can read that excerpt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got an email from professor\/author Kevin R. Johnson today. Here’s an excerpt from a commentary he wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, January 4, 2004, on Strom Thurmond’s daughter and the enduring taboo...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1gZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}