{"id":5126,"date":"2003-12-22T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:09:58","slug":"essie-the-race-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/22\/essie-the-race-traitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Essie the &#8220;Race Traitor&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A15406-2003Dec19.html\">Media Backtalk<\/a><br \/>\nThe Washington Post<br \/>\nby Howard Kurtz<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington, D.C.: Any comment on the lack of play given to the outrage amongst African-Americans regarding the failure of Strom Thurmond&#8217;s illegitimate daughter to &#8220;come out&#8221; years ago, in time to confirm how outrageously hypocritical the former Senator was? She can be considered a traitor to her race for allowing him to perpetrate a fraud all those years, and I know I am not the only one feeling betrayed. <\/p>\n<p>Howard Kurtz: I&#8217;ve read a couple of stories on that subject in just the last couple of days, but I think it&#8217;s ripe for more reporting. One thing that happened is that the whole Thurmond saga was broken by The Post&#8217;s Marilyn Thompson on the Sunday that news of Saddam&#8217;s capture became public, and got somewhat overshadowed by that story. But it&#8217;s an important tale not just for African-Americans but for the Thurmond family members who protected the secret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Backtalk The Washington Post by Howard Kurtz Washington, D.C.: Any comment on the lack of play given to the outrage amongst African-Americans regarding the failure of Strom Thurmond&#8217;s illegitimate daughter to &#8220;come out&#8221;&#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-5126","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-1kG","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\/5126","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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/7340"}],"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=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}