Claims an honor that can be bestowed only on someone of her lineage.
"It is important for all Americans to have the opportunity to know and understand their bloodline. Through my father's line, I am fortunate to trace my heritage back to the birth of our nation and beyond. On my mother's side, like most African-Americans, my history is broken by the course of human events."
| A quote from a statement issued by Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, in Shaila K. Dewan and Ariel Hart's New York Times article "Thurmond's Biracial Daughter Seeks to Join Confederacy Group"
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