Ravenwood - 02/25/07 08:11 PM
I always thought that the late Sen. Strom Thurmond was best known for making it to 100 years old while a sitting Senator and for being the oldest and longest serving senator ever (at the time).
But according to CNN he was best known for the political platform of his failed 1948 Presidential run.
Genealogists say Rev. Al Sharpton's great-grandfather was a slave owned by the family of late Sen. Strom Thurmond, best known for advocating segregation.What's more it seems like bad grammar.
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It all depends on how old you are. Thurmond was the leader of the "Dixiecrats" in 1948 - a single-issue splinter group from the Democratic party. CNN is being rather too kind in describing that issue as "segregation". Jim Crow wasn't just segregation, it was complete subordination of blacks to whites. Blacks would have been quite satisfied if "separate but equal" had ever actually included equality...
In later years, Thurmond toned down his rhetoric and switched parties, but I don't think there was ever a change of heart behind it. Living 100 years isn't much of an accomplishment when every year was a net loss to the human race.
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