{"id":5107,"date":"2003-12-18T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:53:55","slug":"calling-thurmonds-daughter-black-only-confirms-the-racism-that-caused-the-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/18\/calling-thurmonds-daughter-black-only-confirms-the-racism-that-caused-the-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Thurmond&#8217;s daughter &#8220;black&#8221; only confirms the racism that caused the situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8274-2003Dec17.html\">Thurmond&#8217;s Legacy<\/a><br \/>\nby Howard Kurtz<br \/>\nWashington Post Staff Writer<br \/>\nWednesday, December 17, 2003; 12:53 PM <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just finished watching Essie Mae Washington-Williams on television. It was a moving few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could no longer harbor such a great secret,&#8221; the 78-year-old Los<br \/>\nAngeles schoolteacher said. &#8220;At last I feel completely free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is a proud woman. She is black. And she is Strom Thurmond&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The story was broken Sunday by The Washington Post&#8217;s Marilyn Thompson, who followed up with this piece in which the late South Carolina senator&#8217;s family acknowledged that what Washington-Williams was saying is true. But for many the story got lost in the weekend wave of Saddam coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurmond&#8217;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. &#8220;I could no longer&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1kn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}