Cobb

I am wondering just how the, Thurmond family will accept Mrs. Williams.

I can't believe people are so cavelier about
Essie Mae. What a foolish woman. She has no backbone. The black race doesn't need her 78 years later diatribe. She may as well change her name to Thurmond and do the Micheal Jackson color thing if she feels she's not passing enough already. I mean this woman lived a lie and readily and graciously accepted it. This is sort of the good 'peace of ass' who gave Strom a good lay and then through his determination to remain untruely true to his racist ways, paid the blackmail note to that affair's victim. This woman sat back in her coop and watched as this racist, segregationist bastard expounded on the values of keeping the races 'completely separate'. If what I am saying is what lil'Essie Mae was trying to avoid, so be it. However, is it better to stand proud in truth or is it better to whimper in denial? Essie Mae, as far as I'm concerned, you enjoyed your estrangement. You got paid and you were a novelty. Good for you. Hey, by the way Essie, how about Arkansa, how about Missisipi and the south, how about the south, how about our black mothers who were a good time for massa, how about jim crow, how about affirmative action, how about interacial marriage, how about lynchings, how about Rodney King, how about your father's good ole boy Christian ethics? Hey Essie, explain it to your new found Thurmond Family, but the rest of us mixed race and African origin Americans, European Americans that beleive in equal rights for all in America, I invite you to go back to your closet and get paid. And what the hell was this respect for your father. I guess an annual visit where you were introduced as a friend.

No sympathy hear.

I do not think that the relationship and mixed emohtions of father-daughter relationships...should be the stuff of debate. In their own ways, they had that kind of relationship when the society in which they lived was extremely judgemental about racial "miscegnation" or mixing. Maybe Essie's life positively influenced her father's thinking and behavior. Maybe he came to love and respect her and she him. Many of us have had a father whom we loved...but also were angry at or disagreed with mightily. I say, she has a right to privacy for those years she spent in silence or in public denial. She obviously valued the relationship however distant more than the publicity value or the utility it might have had for others. That is understandable and should not be so condemned. It is all too human. I have empathy for her.

Do we really know anybody. Mr. Thurmond knew what it takes to get into heaven. He was a great actor. How many other people liked blacks but said they didn't. A true story of just a young man in a time he didn't understand. He loved Carrie Butler because he cared for their child all his life. How many fathers black/white can said the same thing. Thurmond wanted to be a great man in the South and he did but he never turned his back on his daughter. I remember him and others in the 50's and 60's. This is a shock to me but as history shows the truth about our past will come out. Funny how love has no color.

Strom Thurmond was not only a racist but also a rapist. Who knows; he might even had raped his 'colored' daughter.

The lady in question is fortunate. She got more support from her father than I ever did from mine. And my parents were married and of the same race.

I only have one thing to say about Storm.....He Raped the under-age black women and had a child after the fact. The media today calls it an "Affair" or some other politically correct word. Let's call it what it is RAPE...and this is how my ancesters were treated then and now. WAKE UP!!!! Now, that we are in a new centry and all the old rasist stools are dying off, I wonder how many other skeltons are going to come out the closet.

I don't have this light skin for nothing.