Strom Thurmond, Rapist

Let's not forget this before they try to honor him anymore. Statutory rape might not have been the law then, but do you really think is was actually consensual?

"Rather than wait for the request, the family issued a statement which, in effect, supports her contention that she was born to Mr. Thurmond, then 22, and Carrie Butler, who was 16 and employed by Mr. Thurmond's parents as a housekeeper in Edgefield, S.C." Thurmond Kin Acknowledge Black Daughter