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Gan
02-26-2007, 12:00 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late senator.

"I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," Sharpton told the Daily News, which on Sunday reported the link based on genealogists' findings.

Sharpton's spokesman, Rachel Noerdlinger, confirmed Monday for The Associated Press that Sharpton plans to pursue DNA testing, but had no further details.

Sharpton and Thurmond didn't appear to have much in common: Thurmond ran for president in 1948 as a segregationist. Sharpton ran for president in 2004 calling for racial equality. Last week, Sharpton learned about the connection.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/26/sharpton.thurmond.ap/index.html
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Imagine the irony.

LOLLERSKATES.

:lol:
Stanley Burrell
02-26-2007, 12:17 PM
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/02/26/sharpton.thurmond.ap/story.sharpton.thurmond.ap..jpg

He appears to have one foot in the grave.
Gan
02-26-2007, 12:25 PM
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/02/26/sharpton.thurmond.ap/story.sharpton.thurmond.ap..jpg

He appears to have one foot in the grave.

LOL which one?

Strom died in 2003 at the ripe old age of 100.
Stanley Burrell
02-26-2007, 12:28 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's an open casket JPEG from around that time.

I also felt the sad urge to make a GemStone-type analogy :(
DeV
02-26-2007, 01:35 PM
lol, just lol@this.
Stretch
02-26-2007, 05:59 PM
Not really all that shocking.

I would contend that Sharpton is the more racist of the two, anyway. Big whoop.
Keller
02-26-2007, 09:18 PM
Not really all that shocking.

I would contend that Sharpton is the more racist of the two, anyway. Big whoop.


I hope you're not serious.
Stanley Burrell
02-26-2007, 09:59 PM
Yeah.

I have to say that even though racism and retardism are closely linked (maybe with plentiful genetic proof as this thread hints to) Sharpton would fall under the latter.
Back
02-26-2007, 10:16 PM
Not surprised by this in the least. Plus its ironic justice.

Settler and slave bloodlines are more mixed than people want to admit.
Back
02-26-2007, 10:18 PM
I should also add, though not part of the topic at hand, that indigenous blood is also thick in the mix.
Gan
02-26-2007, 10:42 PM
I guess this means there's a segregationist in the woodpile.
Back
02-26-2007, 11:44 PM
I guess this means there's a segregationist in the woodpile.

Maybe. Depends on if your family was from the north or the south.