AL SHARPTON DISCOVERS HE WAS STROM THURMOND’S SLAVE

Professional genealogists have discovered that the Reverend Al Sharpton is the descendant of slaves once owned by ancestors of the late Senator Strom Thurmond from South Carolina. Once considered an icon of racial segregation, Thurmond not only promised to preserve segregation during his 1948 bid for president, in 1957 he filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill. “Strom Thurmond was a notorious racist, and I am deeply troubled by this,” said Sharpton. “I would have rather been owned by the Clintons."