Strom Thurmond's Fear of a Black Albatross
by Nick Cooper Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003 at 2:08 AM
nickcooper@indymedia.org

"on the question of social intermingling of the races, our people draw the line." - Strom Thurmond, running for president in 1948

"Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of humanity which surrenders to it." - Hitler, Mein Kampf

"But let it not be assumed that this compulsive morality had an external effect only; its full force is not felt until it has become internalized, until it has become a sexual inhibition anchored in the structure. Different aspects of this conflict will predominate during different stages of this process. In the initial stages, it is sexual need that wins the upper hand; later it is the compulsive moral inhibition that prevails. When the entire political organization is plunged into a state of political upheaval, the conflict between sexuality and compulsive morality will reach an acute peak. Some will view this state of affairs as moral degeneration, while others will see it as a 'sexual revolution.'"
- Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Around 1925, a year of sexual revolution, the 21 year old Thurmond had sex with his family's 16 year old maid. When the daughter of this union was 16, she came to see him and from then on, got some financial help from him. Meanwhile he lead a campaign against interracial sex.

Those most interested in suppressing inter-racial mixing are no less prone to it than others. The power dynamic of an older white man's statutory rape of his parent's black maid is very much a part of the power dynamic of white men like Thurmond who legislate the financial suffering of the poor in response to their own sexual repression. Like Bush, surrounded by men signing the late-term abortion ban, there is no consciousness of the ironies, no public resolution of the psychological contradictions. Such material is left until after death. The permanent record for this man affirms that those trying their hardest to repress sexuality are unable to control themselves, unable to control the masses whose suffering they legislate, and unable to control the contents of their biographies.

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