Contest: Strom's white son and black daughter to meet...

[MrBenchley]

"COLUMBIA, S.C. - The oldest son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond says he is ready to meet the mixed-race half sister whose relationship to the family his father, a onetime segregationist, had kept secret for nearly eight decades.
Strom Thurmond Jr., the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, says his family will not contest the claim of Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a 78-year-old retired teacher living in Los Angeles.
Williams says Thurmond fathered her when he was 22 and living in his parents' home in Edgefield. Her mother, Carrie Butler, 16 at the time, worked as a maid in the Thurmonds' home.
Thurmond Jr. said he was looking forward to meeting the retired schoolteacher and establishing a relationship, but plans to do that in private. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031216/ap_on_re_us/thurmond_paternity_19

Let's start a contest; what will their first words be?

I'lll start....

Strom Jr: "Coffee black, two sugars....and be quick about it."

[Bronco69]

1. Strom Jr: "Do you have any granddaughters who might

like to play the Strombone?"

[joeybee12]

2. How about Strom saying, "Back of the bus, bitch!"

Remember the Impeachment Farce? Clinton had a black woman on his team, and Strom would bring her flowers each day. What a filthy old man.

[trof]

3. What's the statute of limitations

on statuatory rape?
Just asking.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. South Carolina's age of consent was something like 13 or 14.

Quite low in most Southern states (and indeed all over the country) until not that long ago...I think in Hawaii at one point it was 12.

[leftofthedial]

5. Wow! talk about a SISTER!

n/t

[SoCalDem]

6. CNN today was waxing nostalgic and wondering ....

"How he kept it a secret for all these years"...and why it never came out at election time...

DUH... maybe because the PRESS chose to look the other way???? Huh?? How 'bout THAT reason???

It's been rumored for years and would not have taken an investigative genius to prove it.. They ignored it because they CHOSE to ignore it, and for them to profess shock now, is absurd..