Strom Thurmond's Daughter.
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| Tue, 12-16-2003 - 8:16am |
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/121503_nw_thurmond.html
Some African Americans in the Southland are angry at the retired school teacher who says she's the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, contending she should have spoken out sooner.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, plans to appear at a news conference in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday to announce she has "irrefutable" evidence that Thurmond was her father, according to her Pasadena-based attorney, Frank K. Wheaton. The announcement comes after a Washington Post story detailed the relationship between Washington-Williams and Thurmond, who died in June at the age of 100. Williams, who has lived in Los Angeles for 40 years, says her African American mother met Thurmond while working as a maid in his parents' South Carolina home and gave birth to her at age 16. Thurmond was 22 at the time. "For her to come out right now is a slap," Frances Moffett, 63, a Mississippi native, told the Los Angeles Times while on her way to service at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles yesterday. "I really do wish she would have come out earlier." Christine Milton, 59, who was also going to the church, told The Times: "For that woman to be so closed mouth, she should be ashamed of herself, especially for trying to protect him." Added Lester Campbell, 40, who was attending the First AME Church: "He should have been held accountable." Vance Guidry, 32, a former teacher, read the news at the Magic Johnson Starbucks in Ladera Heights yesterday morning. Growing up, he told The Times, he thought of Thurmond as a racist. Now, Guidry is even more angry with him. "Black men got harassed, hanged or killed for flirting with white women," he said. Interesting article below............. Ol' Strom and Me. >"Thurmond helped ensure that the Republicans would be major players for decades to come in national politics. Bush and the Republicans owe Ol' Strom an eternal debt of gratitude. That's not the debt that my granddaughters owe their presumed great-great grandfather. However, when they're old enough to understand I'll talk candidly with them about the racially indelible political stamp that he put on the nation."< Quote from.........
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I think she should have come out sooner, too!
Miffy
Miffy
Heap the scorn and insults and criticism on her father; she doesn't deserve it.
Renee
I agree. Unfortunately her silence propagated the lie about Thurmond.
I believe the article mentions that she received support.
cl-Libraone
Renee
Miffy
I'm afraid that I, along with many people I know, disagree with some of the opinions expressed here. Personally, I was not a fan of Strom Thurmond. However, this woman has received support her entire life from him. He never said she wasn't his daughter. There was never an agreement for her not to say anything, therefore, no payoff for being silent.
It seems that she has an