As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Helms reportedly helped create attack ads against Smith’s opponent, including one which read: “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.” Another ad featured photographs Helms himself had doctored to illustrate the allegation that Graham’s wife had danced with a black man. (The News and Observer, 8/26/01; The New Republic, 6/19/95; The Observer, 5/5/96; Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms, by Ernest B. Furgurson, Norton, 1986)
Jack - 11:07am on 07/04/2008
Another racist bastard bites the dust. Good riddance.
ollie-B - 12:07pm on 07/04/2008
Another racist bastard bites the dust.
Why are you “biting dust” at your keyboard, watashiwa? Need to change the filter in your AC?
Proof - 12:07pm on 07/04/2008
Correct. Opposing racial preferences based on skin color or complexion is or should be illegal. Mr. Helms agreed with ~judged by content of character, not color of skin.
If one wants to venture back over a 1/2 century, then we should include comments by KKK members presently in the US Senate, Al Gore’s father and Faubus from Arkansas who Bill Clinton took after. Our own retiring State Senator was a racist based on many more published comments, but that “doesn’t count.”
Chief RZ - 01:07pm on 07/04/2008
How about this for the first line in Jimmy Carter’s obit? Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States and peanut farmer, widely considered to be the worst President of the 20th Century died today. Can you hear the howls and cries of “Hate” eminating from the Left? Thought so. So NYT if you don’t have anything nice to say about the deceased don’t say anthing at all.
Texan Across the Pond - 08:07pm on 07/04/2008
And the man ABC News now describes as a “conservative icon” (8/22/01) in 1993 sang “Dixie” in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging, “I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing Dixie until she cries.” (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/5/93)
More recently, when a caller to CNN’s Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for “everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers,” Helms’ response was to salute the camera and say, “Well, thank you, I think.” (Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)
realitybasedbob - 08:07am on 07/05/2008
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realitybasedbob - 08:07am on 07/05/2008
“I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing Dixie until she cries.
Loutish behavior,whether singing Dixie or Lift Ev’ry Voice is unacceptable in any age!
Nice words about a white supremicist:
Another racist bastard bites the dust. Good riddance.
Why are you “biting dust” at your keyboard, watashiwa? Need to change the filter in your AC?
Correct. Opposing racial preferences based on skin color or complexion is or should be illegal. Mr. Helms agreed with ~judged by content of character, not color of skin.
If one wants to venture back over a 1/2 century, then we should include comments by KKK members presently in the US Senate, Al Gore’s father and Faubus from Arkansas who Bill Clinton took after. Our own retiring State Senator was a racist based on many more published comments, but that “doesn’t count.”
How about this for the first line in Jimmy Carter’s obit? Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States and peanut farmer, widely considered to be the worst President of the 20th Century died today. Can you hear the howls and cries of “Hate” eminating from the Left? Thought so. So NYT if you don’t have anything nice to say about the deceased don’t say anthing at all.
And the man ABC News now describes as a “conservative icon” (8/22/01) in 1993 sang “Dixie” in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging, “I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing Dixie until she cries.” (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/5/93)
More recently, when a caller to CNN’s Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for “everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers,” Helms’ response was to salute the camera and say, “Well, thank you, I think.” (Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)
(meant to block quote and link to the link Jack used)
Loutish behavior,whether singing Dixie or Lift Ev’ry Voice is unacceptable in any age!
Poor linkin’ without thinkin’ boob only has one anecdote to tell about Byrd, which he has to recycle constantly!