{"id":5391,"date":"2005-01-19T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:42","slug":"dear-senator-a-thurmond-child-looks-at-her-life-and-his-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/19\/dear-senator-a-thurmond-child-looks-at-her-life-and-his-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dear Senator&#8217;: A Thurmond Child Looks at Her Life and His Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books of the Times<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/17\/books\/17masl.html\"> &#8216;Dear Senator&#8217;: A Thurmond Child Looks at Her Life and His Racism<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nJanuary 17, 2005<br \/>\nBy JANET MASLIN<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Essie Mae Washington-Williams spent 78 years as the unacknowledged mixed-race daughter of the Senate&#8217;s most notorious white supremacist. Hush money, occasional surreptitious visits, dietary advice (eat vegetables! drink water!) and a kiss on the cheek were about all she gained from this connection.<\/p>\n<p>At one point she also received a note that read: &#8220;Dear Essie Mae, Thank you for your kind remembrance on Father&#8217;s Day. Affectionately, Strom Thurmond.&#8221; But beyond that the relationship was as unfulfilling as it was long. Parent and child were both taking the same digestive aid by June 2003, when Thurmond died at 100.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books of the Times &#8216;Dear Senator&#8217;: A Thurmond Child Looks at Her Life and His Racism The New York Times January 17, 2005 By JANET MASLIN Essie Mae Washington-Williams spent 78 years as the&#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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[121,197],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5621"}],"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=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}