Look away!
Look away, Dixieland!
I am reminded daily that the world is a small place.
But this small?
Sharpton: Thurmond slave link `shocking'
By Erika Hayasaki
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
February 26, 2007
NEW YORK -- Rev. Al Sharpton said Sunday that it was the "most shocking" news of his life--he is a descendant of a slave owned by relatives of Strom Thurmond, the late senator who once championed the segregationist South.
"I couldn't describe the emotions that I've had over the last two or three days thinking about this," the civil rights leader said at a news conference. "Everything from anger and outrage to reflection, and to some pride and glory."
Sharpton found out about the connection to Thurmond last week after the New York Daily News got his approval to work with genealogists.
Researchers discovered that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather.
"I know there's no such thing as a boring family tree," said Megan Smolenyak, chief family historian for Ancestry.com, who presented the findings to Sharpton on Thursday. "I knew we would find something, but I certainly didn't anticipate this."
The information also showed that Sharpton's great-grandfather had been freed.
In a phone interview Sunday, Sharpton said he had one "awkward" encounter with the South Carolina senator in 1991, during which the two men barely spoke. Sharpton said he had not decided whether he would meet with Thurmond's relatives.
A niece of Thurmond's, Ellen Senter, 61, of Columbia, S.C., confirmed that she had told the Daily News she would speak to Sharpton if he wanted to talk.
Thurmond died in 2003 at age 100.
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Old times from the former fascist Southron Empire of the CSA are indeed not forgotten.
6 comments:
The intricacies of Karma are beyond the ability of the mind to comprehend.
These little reality-checks-from-nowhere are always...interesting. :o)
Interesting, yes, but what would be really hilarious is if a DNA test proved Strom and Al were -- so to speak -- "blood brothers".
Too bad Sharpton didn't know this in 1991. Probably could have sold tickets to the conversation with Thurmond.
Prof:
In my dreams. :o) :o) :o)
Can you see Al glad-handing all his relatives at the family re-union? :o)
Hey! I'm thinkin' movie! :o)
With Eddie Murphy in the lead role; wearing a "chub suit", and genial and folksy, as he chums it up with ol' Strom's honky kin. :o)
"Bubba! I haven't seen you in a coon's age!" :o)
The irony is lost on bubba. :o(
tanbark said The irony is lost on bubba. :o(
po' bubba.
Another pleasure crowded out by aggressive dumbassery.
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