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I can't believe some of the stuff that's being said here. If you're not black, why the hell are you trying to tell black people how they should feel about Strom Thurmond's death? IMO that's extremely, extremely invalidating.
Just because something happened 50 years ago doesn't make irrelevant. It still happened. And I certainly don't feel that appointing one black person to some committee makes up in any way for the fact that Thurmond actively campaigned for the deaths of blacks and against them acquiring any sort of rights.
Just because the feeling of the day among white Americans was generally anti-black doesn't excuse his behavior, either. The longest filibuster record was set when he was trying to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act -- which means there must have been a decent amount of Americans who wanted to see people of different races have equal rights, or else the Civil Rights Act would have never been proposed in the first place.
Edited to add: I agree with Honeykiss -- if this thread was meant to be ONLY for those paying their respects to Strom, it should have been labeled such in the first place.
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