ToDAzE Weird but ... weird
G-d History is an Iron
Genealogical detectives from Ancestry.com were able to trace the lineage of the Reverend Sharpton to his great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, a slave in 1835 Edgefield County, South Carolina. Coleman Sharpton was sent to South Carolina and hired out to work off the “debts of the estate” of Julia Thurmond Sharpton.
Reports vary, tho…
An 1861 indenture documented that Coleman Sharpton, Rev. Sharpton’s great- grandfather, worked on behalf of four Sharpton children to pay off the debts of their father’s estate. Their mother, Julia Thurmond Sharpton, was Strom Thurmond’s first cousin twice removed.
According to the [The Daily News], the genealogists found documents establishing that Sharpton’s great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond’s great-great-grandfather.
????
I dunno—I’m not seein’ it.
In 1957...as a Democrat… Strom Thurmond...filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill.
The real question: How much will the shakedown be for?
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
--Spider Robinson
Posted by Claire on 02/25 at 01:59 PM
