{"id":5116,"date":"2003-12-21T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:05:11","slug":"strom-thurmonds-child-old-times-there-are-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/21\/strom-thurmonds-child-old-times-there-are-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Strom Thurmond’s Child: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

“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 guilty, but it is more likely that many women of the “Negro” caste were receptive to “white” male attention.<\/p>\n

The 15 year-old who had sex with the 21 or 22 year old Stom Thurmond was probably flattered to receive the attentions of the handsome son of the town’s most prominent white family. The people who shout “rape” with no proof talk as if teenager girls never voluntarily have sex.<\/p>\n

Strom Thurmond’s Child: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten<\/a>
\nThe New York Times
\nDecember 21, 2003
\nBy JEFFREY GETTLEMAN <\/p>\n

There may not have been a more lowly and vulnerable position in Edgefield, S.C., in 1925 than that of a teenage black maid. <\/p>\n

But that was how Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s mother, Carrie Butler, was employed when she and a young Strom Thurmond, the scion of a powerful white family, had what Mrs. Williams described as “an affair.” <\/p>\n

Affair? That’s the language many people have used to refer to the liaison after Mrs. Williams broke a lifetime of silence last week and revealed that she was the mixed-race daughter of one of the South’s most powerful and segregationist politicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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 guilty, but it is...<\/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-5116","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-1kw","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\/5116","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=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/7332"}],"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=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}