{"id":5111,"date":"2003-12-19T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:02:10","slug":"armstrong-williams-personal-reflections-of-thurmonds-paternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/19\/armstrong-williams-personal-reflections-of-thurmonds-paternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong Williams: Personal reflections of Thurmond&#8217;s paternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armstrong Williams: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/armstrongwilliams\/welcome.shtml\">For the record<\/a><br \/>\nDecember 15, 2003<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth has a biological advantage. It doesn&#8217;t need the artifice of man to survive. It lives and breathes freely on its own. <\/p>\n<p>78-year old Essie Mae Washington-Williams recently confirmed one of the oldest rumors of Southern political folklore: that she is the mixed-race daughter of former US Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>Williams, whose mother worked as a maid in the Thurmond family home, has long rumored to be Thurmond&#8217;s daughter. In a 1968 book, writer Robert Sherrill alleged that Thurmond had fathered a mixed race child. In 1972, the front page of a local South Carolina newspaper announced that Thurmond fathered a &#8220;colored offspring.&#8221; In 1992 The Washington Post referred to Williams as Thurmond&#8217;s &#8220;supposed daughter.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armstrong Williams: For the record December 15, 2003 The truth has a biological advantage. It doesn&#8217;t need the artifice of man to survive. It lives and breathes freely on its own. 78-year old Essie&#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-5111","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-1kr","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\/5111","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=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions\/7327"}],"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=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}