What the fuck? Strom Thurmund's ancestors owned Al Sharpton's ancestors!

[originalpckelly]

You can't make this shit up. No way in hell. Nada. Nope.

I flipped past FOX during the commercial break on CNN's Late Edition, and I got that tidbit. :wow:

History is fucking weird.

[originalpckelly]

1. As I heard, Sharpton is due to have a press conference...

about this sometime today.

[leomcgarrysghost]

2. It'd be weirder if they were related

[originalpckelly]

3. Now that would be hilarious...

too bad that old fucking racist isn't around to find this out. I'd love to see the look on his face.

[leomcgarrysghost]

4. Yeah too bad

if he was still alive, that news woulda killed him. ;)

[yellowcanine]

5. And they likely are if the story is true. Some Thurmond grandpa nailed a Sharpton grandma

somewhere along the way.

[leomcgarrysghost]

6. Thurmond bumping ugly

is NOT something I want to think about.

[MountainLaurel]

7. You're absolutely right

Guess Strom took after his ancestors in more ways than one.

[Truthiness Inspector]

14. LOL

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction, you never know!

[TerdlowSmedley]

8. Now, if Rev. Al turns out to be Strom's son, now, THAT would be

good television.

[yellowcanine]

9. That is way too revolting to even get my mind around it (Strom doing the nasty with Al's momma).

Gross.

[leomcgarrysghost]

10. Doesn't Strom have an African American daughter?

Him or someone like him. Confederate cadavers all look the same to me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_thurmond#Mixed_race_daughter

Shortly after Thurmond's death on June 26, 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams publicly revealed that she was Strom Thurmond's illegitimate daughter. She was born to an African American maid, Carrie "Tunch" Butler (1909–1947), on October 12, 1925, when Butler was 16 and Thurmond was 22. To this day, the specific relationship between Thurmond and the maid has never been made totally clear.

Thurmond met Washington-Williams when she was 16. He helped pay her way through college and later paid her sums of money in cash or, through a nephew, checks. These payments extended well into her adult life.<5> Washington-Williams has stated that she did not reveal she was Thurmond's daughter during his lifetime because it "wasn't to either advantage of either one of us"<5> and that she kept silent out of love and respect for her father.<6> She denies that there was an agreement between the two to keep her connection to Thurmond silent.<5>

After Washington-Williams came forward, the Thurmond family publicly acknowledged her parentage. Many close friends and staff members had long suspected this to have been the case, stating that Thurmond had always taken a great amount of interest in Washington-Williams and that she was granted a degree of access to the Senator more appropriate to a family member than to a member of the public.

[leomcgarrysghost]

12. Truman is laughing his ass off in Heaven.

[yellowcanine]

13. Year, I am sure old Harry does find this amusing, Thurmond and the Dixiecrats nearly cost him the

election in '48.

[Xenotime]

15. I smell a court case brewing

[muryan]

16. over what? n/t