Reply #5: There are multiple levels of delusion going on here. [View All]

This story isn't complicated, it is just ... unbelievable.

First, her father impregnated a woman at age 81.

O.K.

Right.

The first question to spring to mind is: is this man really her father? I worked with a woman who claimed her father was 75 at the time she was born; I believed it at the time and came to wonder later on. Then, I wondered who else the mother was seeing, being 50 years younger than her husband.

The pension benefits claim was real, from the article. It is a hope to get paid.

The reason this black woman is embraced by the Daughters of the Confederacy is that she confirms the fantasy of the familial bonds slaves allegedly had for their masters. This is important to the Confederate narrative, as false as it my be.