{"id":5125,"date":"2003-12-22T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:09:39","slug":"thurmonds-daughter-could-help-races-come-to-terms-with-shared-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/22\/thurmonds-daughter-could-help-races-come-to-terms-with-shared-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurmond\u2019s daughter could help races come to terms with shared heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/mld\/thestate\/news\/columnists\/warren_bolton\/7527350.htm\">Thurmond\u2019s daughter could help races come to terms with shared heritage<\/a><br \/>\nThe State<br \/>\nby Warren Bolton<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOW THAT ESSIE Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, has put truth on the table, maybe we can talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not talking about rehashing details of Mrs. Washington-Williams\u2019 visits with her father, the financial help he gave or how it is she kept the secret so long.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about the truth that has been around scores longer than the 100 years Sen. Thurmond spent on this earth and that has been as poorly kept as was the fact he had a daughter by a black woman. It\u2019s a truth black and white people have failed to face, so much so that it haunts our relationships today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurmond\u2019s daughter could help races come to terms with shared heritage The State by Warren Bolton NOW THAT ESSIE Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, has put truth on&#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-5125","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-1kF","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\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/7339"}],"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=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}