Strom Thurmond's Swimming Pool

In 1948, after Harry S Truman had desegregated the United States Army, Strom Thurmond became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the Dixiecrat Party, which had split from the Democrats over the issue of segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received 39 electoral votes. His primary campaign platform was the perpetuation of segregation. In this 1948 campaign speech, Thurmond speaks strongly against desegregation, claiming "there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro [or 'nigra'] race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
Thurmond went on to serve in the United States Senate for 49 years, never publicly renouncing segregation.

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[cyclohexane1]

uh... it does. Here is a man preaching against mixing the bloodlines and racial purity but ends up with a biracial child. Also, MLK? that is your equivalent? what's lower than a strawman? jeez!!!! racists make me laugh

[iVenge]

he admitted the 'nigra' race onto his penis.... numerous times. what a filthy hypocrite he was.

[bgreen0115]

The sooner the fleshly part of you rotts and washes back under the rock you slithered from the better the world will be and will rejoice.... For God knows your soul rotted preparing for hell years ago...

[bgreen0115]

Dorian Jashari.... The death u wish on others ... Happened to u years ago... The world keeps going and thriving.... While trash like you are dead inside... You're remarks only hurt you by showing how cheap and useless u are ....

[Dorian Jashari]

LONG LIVE STROM THURMOND! DEATH TO NIGGERS! DEATH TO SPICS! DEATH TO CHINKS! DEATH TO GOOKS! DEATH TO JEWS! LONG LIVE SEGREGATIONISM! LONG LIVE APARTHEID! LONG LIVE ADOLF HITLER! LONG LIVE NAZISM! HEIL HITLER! SIEG HEIL! WHITE POWER! 14/88!

[Dorian Jashari]

FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING NIGGER

YOU NIGGERS ARE A TRAILER PARK TRASH AND WORST THE COUNTRY SINCE 1964

I WISH ALL NIGGERS ARE GOING TO DIE

[bgreen0115]

Also a pedophile... Carrie Butler was 15 when he got her pregnant he was 22.... Also married wife nancy she was 22 he was 66... Of course she eventually left him.... They never divorced but she never went back to him...

[bgreen0115]

Strom Thurman was trailer park trash... The worst the country had to offer... Simply trash

[Dorian Jashari]

Strom Thurmond is the Greatest Man in the US

[Chris Hinton]

But MLK didn't preach racial separation

[jasonlweese]

a million Tea Party "activists" would sadly agree with you...god help us.