{"id":14745,"date":"2003-07-02T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/strom-thurmond-statesman-segregationist-massive\/"},"modified":"2003-07-02T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T11:07:00","slug":"strom-thurmond-statesman-segregationist-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/strom-thurmond-statesman-segregationist-massive\/","title":{"rendered":"Strom Thurmond: Statesman, Segregationist, Massive Hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/26\/thurmond.obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Strom Thurmond&rsquo;s death last week<\/a> was not much of a surprise, as he just turned 100 years old, retiring from the Senate after serving for 47 years.  He <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2075453\/\" target=\"_blank\">never repented from his past segregationist statements and platforms<\/a>, despite many apocryphal figments to the contrary.  However, the recent revelation that <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2085087\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thurmond &ldquo;sired a daughter in 1925 with a black house servant named Essie &lsquo;Tunch&rsquo; Butler<\/a> throws an even harsher light on his hypocrisy.  The article does a much better job in exploring the implications of this than I can, but I will add that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspage.com\/comicspage\/main.jsp?catid=1180&amp;custid=69&amp;file=20030628edmar-a-p.jpg&amp;code=edmar&amp;dir=\/marlette\" target=\"_blank\">this editorial cartoon<\/a> is that much more fitting.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">thanks to Ulana for the link<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105714406431897904?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senator Strom Thurmond&rsquo;s death last week was not much of a surprise, as he just turned 100 years old, retiring from the Senate after serving for 47 years. He never repented from his past segregationist statements and platforms, despite many apocryphal figments to the contrary. However, the recent revelation that Thurmond &ldquo;sired a daughter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/strom-thurmond-statesman-segregationist-massive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strom Thurmond: Statesman, Segregationist, Massive Hypocrite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}