I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
We are supposed to be suprised by hypocrisy from the Right? I just hope that she gets a nice chunk of whatever estate the old racist shit-head left and that the family gets treated to many years of the black side of the family attending funerals, weddings, and reunions.
Think we that ol' Strom was alone in his dilly-dallying? I recommend a trip to today's WashPost and a read of Colbert King's column, "A Story Much Older Than Strom".
What is morality?
What is the damage to truth when treated so badly for so long?
Atrios dahlink,
Just how is his different from, or worse than, the Northern Treatment (tm) afforded to Woods Niggers, er, Gypsies, er, Abenakis, say in Vermont?
Something about the size of we're too polite to speak about it.
Moral clarity appears to be very, very post-modern, and wonderfully transient.
Chewbacca isn't from Endor, he's from Kashyyyk. The Ewoks live on Endor.
I guess it wouldn't be polite to mention Bill Clinton's non-existent black "love child."
Can we say Projection boys and girls?
...let freedom ring..
amerika stands for freedom - freedom from death squads - freedom to consume - freedom to die for a president's war - freedom to be racist - freedom to own guns - freedom to pollute - freedom to be imperialistic - freedom to promote cultist christian religion - freedom to be greedy - freedom to slave your life for corpo-government
FREEDOM
Parker:
Yet he kept Washington-Williams in his life.
Yet....yet....Isn't that sweet of ole Strom? His daughter coming in through back doors, he arrives stealthily in black limosines....
Yet.... yet.....Oh, it really is just so....so....
(swoon)
She should now be referred to as Kathleen "Shit Happens" Parker.
Parker: Today, the baby girl that resulted from young Thurmond's wild oats is 78 and last week showed the nation what class - not race - is all about.
Translation: Why can't "they" all be like her?
andrew,
precisely.
No, Strom wasn't a "deadbeat." He was a rapist and a subjugator of those who are too weak to fight back. But this is in keeping with the wingnut phony bravado. They are only willing to tackle those who are crippled, destitute, or otherwise unable to retaliate.
BTW, Essie Mae's Mom bought the farm at 38.
When I told my friend Warren (also black) about this story when it first came to light his immediate reaction was "Will you stop calling that poor woman 'Essie Mae'!"
I said "But that's her name, Warren -- her real name."
"It is? No shit? Oh my Lord! That is SO Southern! That is SO Negro! And she's Strom Thurmond's kid on top of it!"
The kicker is that Essie Mae's husband was president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP.
Can we say Kapo boys and girls?
Parker: So that when a 22-year-old white man named Thurmond takes a 16-year-old black girl named Carrie Butler to his bed, well, things happen. Or they used to.
What is this, "Summer of '42" all of a sudden?
A white man in 1920s South Carolina has sex with his black maid, why, he's "taking her to bed." A black man in 1920s South Carolina simply looks at a white woman twice, well...
Meanwhile, Al Gore not calling Joe Lieberman squanders his moral legitimacy. Al Gore doesn't call a guy to tell him that he's endorsing someone else - bereft of moral character. Strom Thurmond openly agitates against rights for his child and her mother for half a century - it's "complicated".
Yes, "complicated" until you ask what would have happened to a 24 year old black man who was suspected of having sex, let's be honest, it was rape, with a 16 year old white girl. He, his family and several other black people would have been lynched.
Clueless Joe slammed gore in front of the DLC last summer I seem to reember. I wouldn't have just ignored the ingrate, I'd have flayed him.
And Parker reminds us that Thurmond's libido and womanizing were the subject of "jokes" in South Carolina... Interesting how Thurmond's supporters lacked this sense of levity regarding Clinton.
Race mixing gives our enemies courage and saps our resolve. We must not let the heathen blood pollute True American Blood. Strom failed in taht regard, he was weak and was seduced. However, he was a patriotic southron son and we should admire his courage in defending freedom.
My my my kids! Have we forgotten the Golden Rule so soon? It's okay if you're a republican!
Hmmmm.....I wonder if the phrase "It's all just so complicated" is becoming the wingnut code for "Oh, shit! Caught out again!"
I seem to remember that dearest Glenn typed just such a phrase when the Plame scandal finally started to spread. Now we see Parker wheeling out the magic words. And I'll bet that when we find out that Cheney organized massive kickbacks through the secret energy policy, we'll hear this phrase once more: "It's all just so complicated!
Repubs better organized. Code word list distribution worked out to a science.
what about the REAL VICTIMS here!!!
strom's LEGITIMATE PURE WHITE heirs?!?!!
Mr. Bishop's daughter, Robyn Bishop, 25, an interior designer in Washington, said the worst part was the jokes on late-night television.
"It's been really hard this week," said Ms. Bishop, who once worked as a Senate page for Mr. Thurmond. "You have to turn on the TV and there are jokes about him and you're still grieving. I just hope this woman is coming out for the right reasons."
the poor thing!!!!
"Thurmond cared about his daughter, even if he didn't publicly acknowledge her."
Maybe the term Republican Family "Values" refers to their dollar-store quality.
Shoot. Wish I had the time and energy and a stomach lined with iron - I'd dig through Kathleen's archive on the off chance that she took a slightly different position on sex between Man In Charge/Woman Employee back in the ol' glory days of the Republican sex police. Waaaaay back to the outrage over consensual sex between Bill Clinton and the 22-year old Monica Lewinsky. I'll go further out on this limb and guess that I'd find Kathleen scolding feminists and women in general for not condemning Clinton for getting physical with an underling. My, my - how times do change!
"You have to turn on the TV and there are jokes about him and you're still grieving. I just hope this woman is coming out for the right reasons."
What's she grieving over -- Thurmond's death or the news of his illegitimate daughter? And who's to say what the "right reason" is for this woman to acknowledge who her father is?
I still find it amazing any thinking human being can defend Thurmond on any level. An acquaintence of mine - who's basically a third-rate Sean Hannity in a local rag, writing movie reviews of all things - said when Strom kicked, "Well, you know, he supported MLK Day and hired black staffers."
Well, whoop-dee-fuckin'-do. The dirty son of a bitch also made his career on the suffering of the poor black man while playing on the fears of the poor white man. If he wasn't a racist, he was just another scumbag politician, and hell's too good for him.
And Andrew, the "real" daughter is probably just terribly upset that awful Negress is making life so difficult for her at the country club.
Parker "What today would be statutory rape was perfectly legal in 1925 when the black family maid gave birth to Thurmond's daughter. The cutoff for consent in those days was age 14."
If you no all 50 state capitals, and their corresponding Age of Consent laws...you might be a Thurmond.
here kitty kitty kitty:Shoot. Wish I had the time and energy and a stomach lined with iron - I'd dig through Kathleen's archive on the off chance that she took a slightly different position on sex between Man In Charge/Woman Employee back in the ol' glory days of the Republican sex police. Waaaaay back to the outrage over consensual sex between Bill Clinton and the 22-year old Monica Lewinsky.
Strom was "sowing wild oats," resulting in what one should be sure was an unwanted pregnancy; The Clenis was "morally depraved," resulting in stains on a dress. I understand it all so clearly now.
Coming Up: Anti-abortion revisionists invent time machine and disappear up collective asshole.
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Is kathleen parker the same woman whose husband wanted to high-five a black man because he was eating dinner with his family in a nice restaurant?
IOKIYAR
The story is already dying down which is what the Repubs count on. This may be the only time in history when the Repubs want people to zero in on race rather than the fact that he had sex w/ a 15 year old black teenager who was not his wife. I wonder what kind of Southern outrage would be present if it was found that he had an illegitimate child w/ a 16 year old white teenager (Probably a shotgun marriage or he would have been flayed alive)?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Parker: Today, the baby girl that resulted from young Thurmond's wild oats is 78 and last week showed the nation what class - not race - is all about.
she's half-white so she can't be all bad!
Is kathleen parker the same woman whose husband wanted to high-five a black man because he was eating dinner with his family in a nice restaurant?
YES thats her!!!!
Thanks n69n.
Kind of shows her mentality on race.
Kathleen Parker on unwed motherhood amongst consenting adults
Yeah, her daintiness is kind of riveting but she is dreaming if she is portraying Southern folks as some kind of prissily dainty deniers, gosh, what a bone-head.
There are huge issues involved, including trauma and rejection of women who were good enough to sleep with but not good enough to dine with, not to mention deep guilt and feelings of rejection of wives and sweethearts who came to know what their husbands were up to.
And the phrase “taking to his bed” sweetie, doesn’t even begin to address the issues of consent, coercion and anxiety that could have been operative.
Oh well, it’s prolly all too complicated for the little muffin.
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Is kathleen parker the same woman whose husband wanted to high-five a black man because he was eating dinner with his family in a nice restaurant?
YES thats her!!!!
n69n | Email | Homepage | 12.20.03 - 2:43 pm | #
Yikes, bone-head squared for sure.
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Kathleen Parker on unwed motherhood amongst consenting adults
julia | Email | Homepage | 12.20.03 - 3:17 pm | #
The bone-headed just keeps on rolling through, doesn’t it, gee, wonder if she or her fellow incendiaries would have the guts to pull that kind of incendiary language on David Letterman.
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now, you should know moral clarity is for the little people.
Kathleen Porker is also the one who said she had a "friend" who wanted to line up all the Dem candidates & shoot-i-mean-slap them.
Oh, that Kathleen Parker. It's amazing how stupid you can be and still have a job. . .as long as you say the right things.
I guess it wouldn't be polite to mention Bill Clinton's non-existent black "love child."
Or to mention the slurs in the Bush push-polls about John McCain, who has an adopted daughter of Bangladeshi origin... which took place before the South Carolina primary of 2000, natch.
Mucho projection.
can someone explain "chewbacca defense" for the star-wars ignorant?
Otherwise BlakNo1 seems to have hit it on the head. Amurcan Rights for Amurcans, not "all men" like it says in the communist Constitution.
"Is Parker the same woman whose husband wanted to high-five ablack man because he was eating dinner with his family in a nice resturant?"
Nope! Alex, n69m, MinneB9, it was JENNIFER GRAHAM, in an essay titled "No Big Deal", that appeared in the National Review Online (Oct. 6, 2003)
www.nationalreview.com/comment/
jgraham200310060900.asp
A Graham ain't nothin' but a cracker. 
Which isn't to say Parker isn't an equally bigoted moron, judging from an essay she wrote about hown much she loves the gays, as long as they know their place. (I'm blanking out right now on its title.)
how, not hown. Damn typos!
Yet another example of the hypocritical-exploitation-lying mental illness called Republicanism.
Again, the bigger story here is the collusion of the media.
Ole Strom learned his lesson. One of the other rumors going around is that he had sex with a woman on her way to death row. No inconvenient offspring from her!
Obviously Mrs. Williams took after her mother's family. She seems a totally admirable woman.
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