How Strom Thurmond Created Trump
That despicable bigot Strom Thurmond.
The current "president"- Strom Thurmond and the old bigoted Republican Party created this monster!
Today, I'm writing about the influence of how right-wing and racist politicians of the previous century contributed to the rise of the alt-right and the 45th "President". That the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss this because of their role in creating the monster.
Whenever I hear about the media is being liberal, I cringe because it's not true. The media is actually conservative in not truly challenging the status quo or denying parts of American history. I'm not just talking about Fox news. NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the NYT, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, etc. Today's media is own by very few people and the news we get is often biased or watered down.
Let's get back to talking about that dead senator Strom Thurmond.
Strom's father was an avid supporter of Ben Tillman, a notorious white supremacist who advocated lynching and denying Blacks and People of Color education and employment opportunities other than laborers, sharecropping, and domestic service.
In 1924, Strom exploited and impregnated a Black household domestic who gave birth to his first child, Essie Mae Washington on October 10, 1925. For decades her existence has been shrouded in secrecy, lies, and humiliation until his death in 2003.
Today, I'm writing about the influence of how right-wing and racist politicians of the previous century contributed to the rise of the alt-right and the 45th "President". That the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss this because of their role in creating the monster.
Whenever I hear about the media is being liberal, I cringe because it's not true. The media is actually conservative in not truly challenging the status quo or denying parts of American history. I'm not just talking about Fox news. NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the NYT, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, etc. Today's media is own by very few people and the news we get is often biased or watered down.
Let's get back to talking about that dead senator Strom Thurmond.
Strom's father was an avid supporter of Ben Tillman, a notorious white supremacist who advocated lynching and denying Blacks and People of Color education and employment opportunities other than laborers, sharecropping, and domestic service.
In 1924, Strom exploited and impregnated a Black household domestic who gave birth to his first child, Essie Mae Washington on October 10, 1925. For decades her existence has been shrouded in secrecy, lies, and humiliation until his death in 2003.
Yep, he said this back in the fifties.
Strom has used race, religion, and gender to divide the people of South Carolina, the South, and, eventually, the nation. His family was connected to notorious White supremacists such as Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease. Coleman Blease racism was so blatant and open that some of his White supremacist supporters were turned off by such displays. Read up on both Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease at Wikipedia. Some of the stuff are shocking to some but to many people, especially Black people, none of this surprise us as we are going through another time of intolerance and bigotry in 2019.
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