Showing posts with label strom thurmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strom thurmond. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Dick Cheney flew from Oman to Islamibad in a cargo plane called "The Spirit of Strom Thurmond". So far, Al Sharpton hasn't had any conmments. While this is amusing, there are two things that strike me from this trip. First, the media of course is getting ignored by Deadeye Dick. Via Newsweek, we can hear the gripes.
Just after dawn on Tuesday morning, reporters were taken to the mess hall, where Cheney was dining with the troops. "How was breakfast?" a reporter yelled to the VP. "Breakfast was excellent," Cheney replied, in what were his first three words to the press pool traveling with him on the trip, now in its eighth day.
That has to be seriously depressing for the media crew. 8 days traveling around the middle east and Cheney finally decides to break his silence by commenting on his breakfast? Hold the presses in New York!
The other thing that seems to be hinted at is that this trip is very slapdash. All these stops along the route were not planned when the journey began. It is making me suspect that Cheney is attempting to keep himself out of the country until after the Scooter Libby verdict. This ducking of attention could have proved fatal yesterday if the bombers at the Afghani base had better timing.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Today, we examine the tender and thoughtful way that denizens of Free Republic display when responding to the news that one of Strom Thurmond's ancestors owned one of Al Sharpton's ancestors. The Freepi discuss this story here,here ,here here and here. The following are sample quotes that quite accurately sum up the conservative republicans introspection that resulted from this shocking discovery.
I always knew there was a little white in Reverend Sharpton, yearning to be free.
Then Shrapnel will have ammo to tawany brawley the Thurmonds no doubt some how......
I can see the resemblance. They both appear to be imbeciles, and then there's the matter of the helmet hair. In the past,Sharpton(The Graft Zeppelin) used to wear weird outfits too..
And she alluded to Sharpton having become what? A race-baiting pimp?
So, should the Thurmonds demand a refund?
Y'know, some people just go around looking for trouble. Thurmond's alleged slave-owning ancestors are dead. Sharpton's alleged slave ancestors are dead. So what. He should get on with his life and get over it. But nooooooooo ... just more fuel for his victim-mentality poor-me, I'm-oppressed-because-my-ancestors-200 -years-ago-were-oppressed, fire. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this.
ABSOLUTELY! If his ancestors were as trifling as old Al, the Thurmonds should require him to pay them for allowing them to live on their land! Has Al ever done an honest day's work?
Shapton's forebear had an honest job and supported his family. Al doesn't own the shirt on his devious back.
He's too dumb to realize it, but he's still on the "Plantation".
The Thurmonds did not own much.
I wonder if Sen Byrd's family might lay claim to Jessie Jackson?
Nah, more likely that Jessie Jackass's ancestors in Africa probably sold Al's ancestors into slavery; and maybe vice versa.
My father stated that Thurmond was nothing more than a Monkey...that would make Sharton something like Strom's Uncle .... or something like that
Al Sharpton wants to take a DNA test to see if he is, in fact, related tothe late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond.Creature of the Black Lagoon.
AL Sharpton is a hustla and he knows that he'll get on the news and on websites like FR so people can remember his name? I mean when was the last time he appeared in the nooz anyway.
Look out, Thurmonds! Hide your money! Cuzzin Al's comin' to town!
And all this time I thought he was a Son of a B-----.
What a shame for the Thurmond family's good name to be besmirched by such an association to such a disgusting and disreputable jerk.
Hope they kept the receipt, perhaps Strom can get a refund...
What freed Coleman three generations ago? Good will? Some form of ransom? The Civil War? Most likely it was the actions of a Republican president that freed Coleman Sharpton from the slavery, the same slavery the Democrat party fought to maintain.
Tell me again what party this ungrateful greatgrandson attacks.
But I have been so busy exploiting and inciting mah peole that I never gots the chance to reasearch mah lineage. I will gracioulsy accept the left testicle of evah white male in the country as reparations," Sharpton added.
This has been another episode of compassionate conservatism brought to you by the fine folks at Free Republic. I need to take a shower now, feeling a bit dirty.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent civil rights activist wants a DNA test to confirm genealogists' findings that his great-grandfather, a slave, was owned by an ancestor of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, once a prominent defender of racial segregation.
"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," the Rev. Al Sharpton told the Daily News.His spokesman, Rachel Noerdlinger, confirmed Monday that Sharpton plans to pursue DNA testing, but had no further details.
Thurman, the late senator from South Carolina, ran for U.S. president in 1948 as a segregationist. Sharpton ran for president in 2004 calling for racial equality.
Who would he DNA test exactly? This is what intrigues me. Perhaps Sharpton has some inklink that he might genetically linked to the Thurmond family. It was very common for members of slave holding families to rape female slaves and produce offspring. It would be mighty curious to see if Sharpton actually is a Thurmond too. Let's not forget that Strom Thurmond himself impregnated a teen-aged african american made when he was much younger, and knew of his daughter's existence all the while he was fightin for racial bigotry. His black daughter pre-dates his movement and run in 1948 as the segregationist candidate for President.
Sharpton suing for his share of inheritance rights would be poetic justice.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
NEW YORK — Geneaologists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Daily News said professional genealogists, working at the newspaper's behest, recently uncovered the ancestral ties between one of the nation's best known black leaders and a man who was once a prominent defender of segregation.
According to the newspaper, the genealogists found documents establishing that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
Well, if that doesn't beat all. That old southern cracker, pride of Trent Lott's eyes, defender of all things segregationist was a descendent of slaveholders who kept Al Sharpton's family in bondage. I find this extremely ironic. Hopefully Sharpton sues for Chez Racist Lunatic in court (and court tv covers it).
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