Was he hoping for John Edwards or Jimmy Carter?

Al Sharpton recently learned that his great-grandfather was owned by an even more distant relative of one-time arch-segregationist, Strom Thurmond. Sharpton said the revelation “was probably the most shocking thing in my life.”
There was no word on whether slave or owner practiced polygamy.

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