Cthulhu's D. Prodigy; #FreePalestine

•Strom Thurmond fathered a child, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, in 1925 with a 15- or 16-year-old Black domestic worker named Carrie Butler, while Thurmond was 22 years old and working/living in his parents' home in South Carolina. •Critics, legal scholars, and commentators have argued that the extreme racial power imbalances, Jim Crow-era coercion, and Butler's age under South Carolina statutory laws of the time meant the encounter constituted statutory rape or sexual exploitation. • •Washington-Williams did not publicly reveal Thurmond as her father until December 2003, months after his death, and later wrote in her memoir [Dear Senator] that she maintained a complex relationship with him, while historians and civil rights analysts continue to debate the predatory dynamics of the relationship.