A friend just sent me the following photograph, snapped on the grounds of the South Carolina State House. It’s of the engraving at the base of a Strom Thurmond statue. My friend thought that it was hilarious how crudely they’d sanded down the “four,” changing it to “five,” and added the name of the secret black daughter that the famous segregationist fathered with family maid Carrie Butler. One almost wonders if this might be the work of Banksy.
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This site has me wondering if that is a real photo:
Strom Thurmon at findagrave.com
oh, duh. thats not his gravestone.
thats what I get for never laerning to read!
You can make it out here in 2006: Thurmond from the rear on flickr
I bet in a few more years the weather will make it look normal.
Someone should add Alvin Greene.
I’ll pay $100 if someone does it.
What’s black and white and red all over?
Are your comments getting more and more cryptic, or is my brain dying?
It is kind of funny how crudely it was done, but it is nice and somewhat surprising that it was done at all. Good job South Carolina.
There’s a rumor that he’s also Snoop Dog’s dad. For Realz.
Essie May was my favorite of the Clampett klan.
Essie Mae Washington was born in Edgefield, the town where Thurmond lived, in 1925. The following quote comes from Thurmond in 1848, when he was serving as SC’s Governor and running for President on the anti-integration Dixiecrat ticket. He was paying to put Washington through college at the time.
“All the bayonets in the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches and our places of recreation.”
He usually used the other “n” word.