Thurmond Child Says Sharpton Overreacted

[csds703]

yeah, i know, just letting you know i added to it, in an attempt to prepare for the usual comeback.. where people are thinking of all the good people in our society who happen to be black (again- those aren't the ones i was talking about).
yes there are low-lifes all over but the situation i was referring to in my last post is a significant and tragic problem in our society today, most of our older cities have been destroyed by 'ghettofication'.. but when it gets brought up everyone wants to turn their heads away and say 'ooooooh... we can't talk about that. there's bad people everywhere,, it's not their fault, etc..'. we in america are unable to acknowledge what is going on right in front of our faces.

i say that everyone should have more personal responsbility-- yes, even them. i am tired of the slavery issue being the excuse for everything.

Slavery is not an excuse for anything and not even the topic at hand.

Imagine looking up your family tree and finding out that you were related to someone who made a career out of "keeping you in your place".
Thurmond was a bigot.
It might disgust me also to have him in my gene pool.

 

[Beyond Belief]

This Sharpton tree is a little strange. Julia Sharpton's husband was Jefferson Sharpton of Edgeville, SC. (1850 census) Jefferson Sharpton is listed Liberty, Fl on the 1860 census.

There are two Coleman Sharptons in Florida. 1880 and 1900 Coleman born SC 1829 and 1835 approx.in Liberty, Fl. The other age 16 in 1900 and age 42 in 1930 in Wabasso, Indian River Co. Fl.

Rev Al Sharpton is from Queens, NY.


If Coleman Sharpton of Wabasso is the Rev.'s grandfather, then the Rev's father would have been born in IndianRiver Co, Fl. I live here, I have never heard that.
However this Coleman does have a son 3 yrs old in 1930 named Alfred.

This doesn't make any sense.

 

[Karanjeff]

ok if you want to take that route I should be suing all men due to my low wages and job opportunities as a woman. If you look on a federal wages comparison women get paid on the average 70 cents to a man black or white 's 1.00. Don't give me that gripe.
I pay taxes follow the bible and give everyone black white mixed foreign and domestic my up most respect for them, their families and their property.
We have become so scared as a nation to really get it out there because we might hurt someomnes feelings.
If you are gonna complain then you need to strat the change in your own backyard as well not everyone else bowing and tiptoeing around for them.
Like Reb said it's tough all over. Only you can make a change in your life. If you don't like your work change jobs, where you live move.
This is 2007. Everyone has thr opportunity to change their world if it's through money, education, or politics. Look at Obama, Oprah, or Sidney Poirtier. They all got there by giving 150 percent just like the rest of us.

UUUUUGGGGHHHH I could go on and on.

Oh and if you got rid of the gangs, drugs, and especially the guns that they glorify on TV and movies and show real everyday african americans who work hard, go to school you might just see a difference. They need to take responsibility more so than the average me.

 

[Masterj]

This post is beneath you reb.

don't even bother. And considering it is the one of many of the same posts by reb, I seriously doubt it will be the last.

 

[Lauren]

Just some gossip from me, my Dr. is his grandson.(Or use to be before he moved to be a ER doc.) Ironic and a small world. It was quite the scandal. His mother was the bi-racial woman that was found to be Thurmonds daughter. He is a kind kind man. His wife is also a nurse practictioner. Nice family.

 

[reb]

karanjeff.. THANK YOU!! and just ask bill cosby, he apparently agrees with us. i guess that makes him an anti-black racist, because he believes- and expects- blacks (esp of the younger generation) to do better than many of them are doing?? why is it that blacks seem to be exempt and immune from any criticism these days???? if you dare stand up to them, or give your honest opinion about their boorish behavior and tell them they need to take a good hard look at themselves.. you'll no doubt be on the recieving end of death threats or have a gun waved in your face.

there is a reason joe biden made that comment about obama recently... but no one wants to hear the truth. even most people who agree keep their mouth shut out of fear of being called the dreaded 'r' word.. which paralyzes us all and keeps us from having an open, honest dialogue.

 

[Texana]

I remember vaguely--separate water fountains and the day Martin Luther King was shot.

There are people a little older than me, who, when the order came to desegregate schools came, found their schooling came to an end--at 13, 15, 17. Their families could not afford to send them away to live with relatives. They lived near Washington D.C. and the school board decided to dissolve the schools in their county rather than have black and white children in the same schools.

We must all have high expectations for all our children. But we are fools if we do not acknowledge that within recent memory for many people is a time when high expectations were not equal for all children.

My husband's grandmother was outraged to have a black physician in the emergency room. That was within the past 15 years. That generation is passing...but to deny that it existed is foolish.

 

[curious1]

You know....one of my direct ancestors was an indentured servant to get passage to America from England. Wonder if I should look up the name of the man he was indentured to and hunt down his present day relatives and demand money? I know, I know so un-PC, but geez all my African-American friends (and they don't like that term since they have never been to Africa they say) are professionals, one is a dr, one is an attorney, one was a lobbyist and the others are in high ranking mangement and VP positions with the banks here and they just don't get the mindset of being a victimi. They get so tired of fellow african-americans telling them they are sell outs and don't give back to the community. They don't expect anything from anybody and they were taught that by their parents. They know where their ancestors came from and how much each generation had to struggle and they are enternally grateful for what each generation before them did, but they and their families don't live in the past. They say that is why they are so successful, they have not let it permeate their lives and have chosen not to see themselves or their ancestors as victims, the instead see them as survivors. They choose to acknowledge what each generation before has done and to continue doing one better each generation after that, they believe that anything less would be disrespectful to their ancestors. This is the one thing that each of my African American friends has in common and I do think it is why they are able to achieve so much.

 

[Nova]

Did anyone see the Rev. Sharpton on The Daily Show last Thursday night?

He did not initiate the search of family records that proved the connection to Thurmond. On that program, at least, he said nothing about slavery justifying bad behavior or entitling him to financial compensation.

He DID say learning that his grandfather (whom he knew as a boy) had been born a slave made the concept of slavery personal to him in a way it had not been before.

He did not whine or complain about it. He and John Stewart seemed to take it for granted that slavery was a "bad" thing that required no explanation.