{"id":5138,"date":"2003-12-29T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:46:21","slug":"strom-thurmond-daughters-silence-slowed-americas-racial-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/29\/strom-thurmond-daughters-silence-slowed-americas-racial-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"STROM THURMOND: Daughter&#8217;s silence slowed America&#8217;s racial reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/columnists\/robert_steinback\/7553375.htm\">STROM THURMOND: Daughter&#8217;s silence slowed America&#8217;s racial reckoning<\/A><br \/>\nROBERT STEINBACK<br \/>\nThe Miami Herald<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, has earned the favorable verdict of the  court of public opinion for the gentle way in which she revealed the secret of her parentage &#8212; Strom Thurmond, the late senator and one-time segregationist presidential candidate, and a 16-year-old black maid named Carrie Butler.<\/p>\n<p>My personal jury, however, is hung. I think Washington-Williams should be damned angry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STROM THURMOND: Daughter&#8217;s silence slowed America&#8217;s racial reckoning ROBERT STEINBACK The Miami Herald Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, has earned the favorable verdict of the court of public opinion for the gentle way in which&#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-5138","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-1kS","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\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/7316"}],"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=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}