Strom Thurmond's family confirms paternity claim

[CalebHayes]

(CNN) -- An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on Monday confirmed that at the age of 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a teenaged African-American housekeeper in 1925.

Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in June at age 100. His illegitimate daughter's story was published Sunday by the Washington Post.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, now 78 and a retired school teacher in Los Angeles, publicly revealed her relationship to the former segregationist after a lifetime of silence.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/15/thurmond..paternity/index.html

[kainah]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=270917

Different source (AP vs. CNN), same story.

[CalebHayes]

3. Sorry about that.

[KA]

2. HMMMMM

maybe that is why he stoped being a racist

[alphafemale]

4. He fathered the child at the age of 22. He was racist well after that.

Which means he openly and publicly despised and betrayed his own child and her mother.

Sick bastard.

I'd heard this about Strom years ago, btw.
One of those southern grapevine things.

[TolstoyAndy]

5. He was rapist well after that

He was 22, she was 16.

I guess Strom could blame it on the oxycontin.

[Moderator]

6. Dupe, please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=270917&mesg_id=270917

DU Moderator