Strom Thurmond's family confirms paternity claim
Yes, Strom Thurmond is still dead, but that hasn't stopped the media from digging a skeleton (no pun intended) out of his closet.
Adam has nominated him for "Hypocrite of the Year", but given Thurmond's history as a not-exactly-an-advocate-of-racial-equality, I'm going to put him up for "HYPOCRITE OF THE MILLENIUM".
An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.
Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in June at age 100. His daughter's story was published Sunday by The Washington Post.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a 78-year-old retired school teacher in Los Angeles, California, revealed her relationship to the former segregationist after decades of silence.
Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the ticket of the States Rights Party, the "Dixiecrats," a breakaway faction of Southern Democrats who believed strongly in racial segregation and were opposed to the Democratic Party's civil rights program.
I'll say this about Thurmond, though...the man could keep a secret. To his credit, at least Thurmond accepted his responsibility and acted like a father.
