Well, you may think It's ancient history, but the atated facts in the public record speak for themselves and need no cowardly apologist who apparently is running interferrance for Strom Thurman's many crimes. (Take this advice from an African-American. If you happen to be a foreigner, and Nordic European, then you already are suspected of being biased.
How else do you think he is related Rev. Al?  Strom's ancestor(s) raped one, or several of Al's enslved female ancestors!!!  However, given Thurmonds's age, circumscribing THREE CENTURIES, he probably raped several succesive generations of Al's women-folk.  Yet another "creative" version of willful southern "inbreeding"  When Sharpton became publically known outside NYC (he was for decades earlier in the FBI's files, of which I suspect that Thurmond knew of him before then, given his special access to govenment files,) the old piking fart-child-rapist must have howled with satanic laughter that the descendant of one of his "bastard whelps" became a black activist. (And before you, or anyone else start with the infantile objections, all this is in the public record, just a click and a scroll away!!! Added to this, know that the alphabet soup of US, "unratified" federal police agencies have colullded with southern and mid-western (Mornmon) ancester-tracking organizations; indeed , many of the former overlap with the feds. Just as the WASPs across the Pond has ever done since the Domesday Book.  Rebuttal, anyone?
Play nice, now. Just the facts, man; JUST-THE-FACTS!!! 24.46.103.28  Veryverser