You Can Call Him Al (Thurmond?)

Al wasn’t doing much smiling when he discovered that some great-grandrelative of his was owned by some great-great grandrelative of Strom Thurmond. I know this news is a few days old–not new news, as it were, but I’ve been preoccupied with quitting smoking, posting some uplifting voices and indulging my latest craving for Taco Bell (okay that last one may be a new death wish).

But as this story sinks into oblivion, a couple of thoughts have come to me.

1. what were genealogists doing digging around in Sharpton’s background to start with? I haven’t heard any reason for this yet and am curious.

2. Sharpton expressed shock at the connection between himself and Thurmond. From what I understand the Thurmonds were pretty good at slave owning, that didn’t surprise me too much.

Only goes to show, unless you know exactly what kind of nuts are growing on your family tree, don’t go shaking the branches.

2 Responses to “You Can Call Him Al (Thurmond?)”

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1 Ramblings...acVernon Menchan
February 28, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Dee you are a riot…I wondered the very same thing, who in the world started checking..The FBI?

I love your posts…

angelia

2 Dee Savoy
February 28, 2007 at 2:14 pm

Thanks so much, Angelia,

I heard on the news this morning that Sharpton now thinks he may have overreacted a bit. No? And one more question–what the hell kind of name is Strom????

Dee Savoy