even if there is a link i'm not sure that it's noteworthy enough to mention wrong on that how else do you think he thormond is related to al sharpton strom's ancestor s as well as strom himself raped one or several of al's enslved female ancestors however given thurmonds's age circumscribing almost three centuries he probably raped several succesive generations of al's women folk yet another creative version of willful southern inbreeding there are many documented products of thormond' rape of a fifteen year old maid in his family's employ as well as their off spring walking all around western south carolina this is now a matter of public record 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 veryverser