Strom's 78-year old mixed-race love child?????

[Woolen Horde]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60363-2003Dec12.html

Let's see Trent Lott talk about that!

[Qenan]

It happened a long time ago... what's your point?

[Bob Violence]

I agree, if it happened a long time ago, there is no newsworthiness at all.

[Theodore Rex DX]

"It is a part of history."

It's kind of interesting at any rate.

[VegasRobb]

Nice dry humor from Bob and Qenan.

[Woolen Horde]

It happened a long time ago... what's your point?

Maybe the sheer irony that the most famous segregationalist in the South had a mixed-raced love child waaaaaay before he became the most famous segregationalist in the South.

It just illustrates the hypocrisy of that movement.

[Brian Koontz]

It happened a long time ago... what's your point?

Maybe the sheer irony that the most famous segregationalist in the South had a mixed-raced love child waaaaaay before he became the most famous segregationalist in the South.

It just illustrates the hypocrisy of that movement.

Not really. He kept her "seperate", after all. Sex does not necessarily imply love, and plenty of racists have mixed-race children, especially in the slavery days.

According to a sort of pure and absolute separatist code, it was certainly hypocritical. I don't like green beans, but on very rare occasion I eat them and in soup I have no problem with them. Despite this I accurately and non-hypocritically say that I don't like green beans.

Rape by wartime conquerors is common. Why? Because sex is pleasurable, the domination of women is exciting, and women become convenient when they don't have defenses such as social support and law. The master/slave relationship (which is continued by the idea of separatism) mimics the wartime conqueror model (whether it is literal rape or not). Hence we have the present Strom Thurmond situation.

[Midnight Son]

Koontz been reading Gor books again....

[Marcus Walser]

That's my aunt. The writer, I mean. Not Strom Thurmond's kid. She's not my aunt.

Marcus Walser

[Jason McCullough]

I've been mulling this for a few days. I think it's sets off an earthquake underneath a certain style of southern thinking. It's the equivalent of George Wallace turning out to be a secret college professor, or Ronald Reagan a communist.

[DennyA]

Listening to recordings of Thurmond shouting about how segregation is the natural way today and knowing that about this is just enough to make you wonder if some politicians might just be hypocrites.

[Bob Cherub]

I agree Denny.. kinda like Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) and his KKK ties.

[Jason McCullough]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/18/opinion/18THU4.html

Interesting related editorial.

African-Americans and white Americans are so deeply entangled by blood that racial categories have become meaningless. When discussing the issue in public, I typically offer my own family as an example. We check "black" on the census and appear black to the naked eye, but we are also descended from white ancestors on both sides. Despite appearances, I told an audience not long ago, "I am as `white' as anyone in this room."

White people — mainly blank-faced and perplexed — typically don't get it. But black people get it fine: they chuckle, cover their faces in mock embarrassment or nod in quiet agreement. Racial ambiguity is a theme they have heard discussed in their families and communities throughout their lives.

[bee cubed]

Listening to recordings of Thurmond shouting about how segregation is the natural way today and knowing that about this is just enough to make you wonder if some politicians might just be hypocrites.

sorry, nothing to contribute here. but that was pretty funny. good jab.

[Jason McCullough]

I somehow missed the detail that she was 16 when she gave birth. He was 22. So that'd mean she was probably 15 when they were getting it on.

Holy.