Al Sharpton makes a shocking discovery

[Herman Munster]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022500667.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prominent black activist Al Sharpton has learned he is descended from a slave who was owned by ancestors of the one-time segregationist U.S. senator, the late Strom Thurmond, the Daily News reported on Sunday.

The series of revelations came to light after the newspaper offered Sharpton a chance to delve into his family history with the help of genealogy experts from Ancestry.com.

Sharpton learned of the connection this week, and told the News that "nothing -- nothing -- could prepare me for this."

According to the genealogists' research, Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave in South Carolina, who along with a woman and two children -- believed to be his wife and children -- were given as a gift to Julia Thurmond and forced to move to Florida.

Julia Thurmond's grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Strom Thurmond, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1948 on a program of keeping the races in the Deep South segregated.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. it could be worse

he could have found out he was related to old Strom

[IndyOp]

2. He might be. I wouldn't rule it out without a genetic test. (n/t)

[longship]

3. "The pecker knows no bigotry."

Or so Sperm... Ooops, Strom Thurmond has said.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Well, I have a deep dark secret

I'm distantly related to the Bush family---obviously they didn't favor MY side of the family!

[IndyOp]

5. Ayeshahaqqiqa - it gives me hope that you are distantly related to them...

It can be very, very difficult to not see the Bushes as pure evil at times - even when I know better.

Now that I know that they have some of your Good in them it will help me keep my vision clear.

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Namaste

I bow to the Divine within you.