THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

STROM'S COLORED DAUGHTER | 2003-12-27

I do not understand homosexuality or interracial sex.

What Strom did in fathering a child with his black maid disgusts me, but that sort of thing has never been considered much of a moral lapse in any society.

It has always been the attitude of the group that regards itself as superior that there is little wrong with males impregnating the inferior race, but their women are the life of their own race. So superiors are not all that upset with men bedding the housemaid in a British home or an American home. But if the male servants bed the ladies of the house, that is a scandal.

What impresses me most is what an honorable person Strom fathered. The media cannot understand why she didn't capitalize on the situation. She says she didn't want to hurt her father. Yankees are absolutely mystified by this.

I just think there are some decent people in the world, and it's good to hear about one of them.