HER STORY TRIUMPHS

My friend, a local black minister, sounded genuinely incredulous Tuesday, as he posed a question that has occurred to more than a few people in recent days. "Why would anybody want to claim a no-good . . . like Strom Thurmond as their daddy?" he asked. "I wouldn't want anybody to know I had anything to do with him." Why indeed? Thurmond was the kind of hypocrite who gives hypocrisy a bad name. He started out in politics as a segregationist, backing away from those views only gradually and mainly as a matter of political expediency. In perhaps the only Jeffersonian act of his life, he had an af...