What do Al Sharpton and the late Strom Thurmond have in common?

Submitted by Dan Robinson on February 26, 2007 - 2:56pm

Well it seems that Al's great grandfather was a slave on Strom's family farm. Who knew?

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Unbelievable!
Submitted by Henry Poole on February 26, 2007 - 7:04pm.

This comment just blows my mind:

Thurmond's niece, Ellen Senter, said she would speak with Sharpton if he were interested.

"I doubt you can find many native South Carolinians today whose family, if you traced them back far enough, didn't own slaves," Senter, of Columbia, S.C., told the Daily News.

She added: "And it is wonderful that (Sharpton) was able to become what he is in spite of what his forefather was."