Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton Linked Together

[jitterbug13]

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?n...tion=localnews

I wonder if her half-brothers saw her while she was in town?

[Honeykiss1974]

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late senator.

"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," Sharpton told the Daily News, which on Sunday reported the link based on genealogists' findings.

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Well I do declare!

[DSTKellie]

They interviewed Al Sharpton on TJMS this morning. He had me crackin up.

[Little32]

She added: "And it is wonderful that (Sharpton) was able to become what he is in spite of what his forefather was." (Quote from a niece of Thurmond's)

That is hilarious, as though the man's enslavement was his own doing. This quotation should have read, "And it is wonderful that (Sharpton) was able to become what he is in spite of the would-be crippling oppression endured by his forefather and the oppression that many African Americans still encounter today."

[jitterbug13]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate...l/16887038.htm