Strom's Black Daughter

[Brundlefly]

Interesting Slate article here about something that seemed to get ignored during the eulogies given yesterday.

How screwed up is the South to have a hypocritical racist serve for this long in Congress? The article disputes the idea that Strom ever reconciled his views. My favorite line from the article:

"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. "

If the Civil War had ended differently with the South gaining sovereignity, right now us Yanks would probably be living next to a totalitarian regime similar to Iran. Only difference is it would be a theocracy based on Christianity instead of Islam.

[DinoDoc]

Was a paternity test ever done?

[Saras]

Lo, do I see MtG with an unhappy hedgehog in his hands?

[Imran Siddiqui]

The rantings of the ignorant.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I love that "almost certainly" part.

[gunkulator]

Agreed. "almost" is not needed.

As to the topic. Pathetic. Wait til a guy dies before kicking him around.

[chequita guevara]

We were kicking him around when he was living. No reason to stop just cuz he's dead.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Maybe that's the whole problem with the left. They don't realize when it no longer matters.

[gunkulator]

True, but there always seems to be a pattern of illegitmate children showing up right after some guy kicks it, crying that they never knew their daddy. Convenient since he can no longer deny it. Let the man RIP.

[MichaeltheGreat]

In this case, it's a few lefties making a stink - the woman denies it.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


The rantings of the ignorant.

Oh so THIS is how I get my posting status up to Diety - click on every thread and throw out glib one-liners without any supporting arguments....

[chequita guevara]

OT posts don't count.

[Felch]

True

[Imran Siddiqui]

Feephi makes my point for me. As for no supporting arguments we can look at your assertion that the South as a seperate country would be totalitarian... based on the fact that Thurmond may (but may not) have had a black child.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The timing just after his death gives you a very strong clue about the story's reliablity. In adition to having a pripicpal witness silenced, most defamation laws do not protect the dead. When something juicy like this pops up shortly after the death of the subject, you know it was because they could not back it up in court and face a defamation trial while the subject was alive.