← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · N.B. Forrest
Thread ID: 7827 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-07-03
2003-07-03 18:32 | User Profile
*In all the words spent on Strom Thurmond's life and times since his death last week, I have seen no acknowledgment of the most interesting of his sundry racial legacies. She is Essie Mae Washington Williams, a widowed former school teacher in her 70s, living in Los Angeles. Presumably she did not show up for any of the obsequies even though Strom Thurmond was almost certainly her father. Williams is black.
In contrast to, say, George "I Was Wrong" Wallace, Thurmond has always been an ornery redemption project. He did not repent. Even so, his illegitimate daughter further complicates the moral picture.* Does she mean that he was even more heinous than we knew? Or thatââ¬âdude!ââ¬âhe wasn't such a racist bastard after all?
I don't know who this commie skank is, but I do hope she runs into a particularly savage jig on the prowl for "white meat", and soon.
As for Strom's half-pickaninny, she's a big, er, black mark against him, without question. Still, he was only 22 when he sired her (if he did). Foolish, horny young men make mistakes older ones might not make.
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2003-07-03 19:07 | User Profile
Let's see some DNA evidence. Otherwise it's as true as the "Sally Hemmings" myth the media tried to force on the public.
2003-07-03 20:06 | User Profile
More SLATE-sludge:
**If he didn't exactly claim Essie Mae Williams, neither did he disown her. He gave her money and paid her regular visits (and probably tuition) at the black South Carolina college where she was a "high yaller" sorority girl while he was governor of the state. And in some ways, Williams has played the dutiful daughter, insisting over the long years that Thurmond was merely a "family friend." (Efforts to reach her failed.)
I do not pretend to fully understand these dynamicsââ¬âand urge those interested in the nexus of race and sex to consult Joel Kovel's White Racism: A Psychohistory. But I know this: Thurmond's secret interracial sex life was complementary to the conspicuously virginal choices he made to be his public consorts. The year before being named the Dixiecrat nominee in 1948, the 44-year-old Thurmond was photographed by Life standing on his head for his lovely 21-year-old fiancee. Caption: "Virile Governor." Thurmond's second bride, young enough at 22 to be the 66-year-old senator's granddaughter, was a former Miss South Carolina. Both wives (No. 1 died of a brain tumor at 33) were the proverbial "flower of southern womanhood," the ideal that justified segregation's direst form of social control, the ritual castration of lynching. Those fair and nubile white women gave Thurmond's ugly politics a shiny emotional gloss that blinded the Southern conscience to the shame of the Essie Mae Williamses.
The reason the South is the most interesting region in the country is that it's the only place where the psychic landscape is parceled out equally among Marx, Freud, and God. **
That this was written by a "McWhorter" is yet another reason Jews go to sleep giggling every night in America. No need to send for a Rabinowitz when there are so very many trained goyim raising their hands to volunteer for race-traitor duty.
I'll bypass precision-flaying the two most egregious bits in the passage above (meaning A: "if you really want to understand white Southerners, read this book by a snickering rrootless Jew!"; and B: "Marx Freud & God....hey Christiaaans!.....look how even your Lord comes in third in a three-man sack race behind a couple of Chosenite connivers!") to ask, simply, one question:
Where's the scathing and smugly-patronizing SLATE feature on Bill Cosby, MLK or any other Prominent Negro Embodiment Of Blackness & Solidarity who rested his cigar in the wrong color ashtray from time to time?
2003-07-04 01:41 | User Profile
In Thurmond's era, it was considered roguish for white Southern men to bed black females. It went along with boiled shirts and cigars, I guess. I was regailed with many stories along these lines by Southern friends when I used to travel on business in the Deep South (S.C., Ga., Ala., Miss.). Of course in that era, the door only swung one way.
I think most of us on this forum think that race-mixing is an abomination, but Thurmond can only be judged fairly within the context of his time.
2003-07-04 02:43 | User Profile
Originally posted by Uncle John@Jul 4 2003, 01:41 * *In Thurmond's era, it was considered roguish for white Southern men to bed black females. It went along with boiled shirts and cigars, I guess. I was regailed with many stories along these lines by Southern friends when I used to travel on business in the Deep South (S.C., Ga., Ala., Miss.). Of course in that era, the door only swung one way.
I think most of us on this forum think that race-mixing is an abomination, but Thurmond can only be judged fairly within the context of his time.**
DeToqueville is a good read on the differences between the North and South (in the 1830s, but much of it still rings true):
Hitherto, wherever the whites have been the most powerful, they have maintained the blacks in a subordinate or a servile position; wherever the negroes have been strongest they have destroyed the whites; such has been the only retribution which has ever taken place between the two races. ... In the South, where slavery still exists, the negroes are less carefully kept apart; they sometimes share the labor and the recreations of the whites; the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although the legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate. In the South the master is not afraid to raise his slave to his own standing, because he knows that he can in a moment reduce him to the dust at pleasure. In the North the white no longer distinctly perceives the barrier which separates him from the degraded race, and he shuns the negro with the more pertinacity, since he fears lest they should some day be confounded together.
2003-07-06 06:14 | User Profile
Strom Thurmond was sh*t. He was part of the establishment we all claim to fight. He did what he had to do to get power. He had no principles. Good riddance.