Reply #71: But you keep ignoring the fact that she was NOT living in the south... [View All]

during the civil rights era of the 50s and 60s. Therefore, she would have been in FAR less danger if she had spoken out against Thurmond.
Prediction: Here is the point at which YOU will say that "they" would have gotten to her in either her DC or Los Angeles home (even though you have been repeating that her silence was due to the climate of fear in the south)
I am sure that the knuckle-draggers of SC would have re-elected Thurmond, but her speaking out would have certainly reduced his power, support, and standing on a NATIONAL level. He was one of the prime architects of the modern GOP. YOU are very misinformed or quite naive if you do not understand how a national political party works.
Why did she wait until his death to write her book? Why not 30 years ago? 20? 10? 5? 2?

I dont't care if she remained silent out of fear, venality, or some type of twisted daddylove pathology; the result was complicity.
I never claimed that she, not Thurmond, was the villain. Yes, her mother was a victim, but that does not make Essie a hero.