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Remembering Jesse Helms | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I lived in NC from 1975-1983 (4.00 / 4)

He was a repulsive toad of a piece of crap. Of all politicians in America at that time, he had the least of positive qualities. His political career was based on racist hatred. That's how he came to power. He maintained power by running some of the most despicable campaigns in US history. The "white hands" commercial especially stands out.

Of all politicians in US history, he is right up there is the list of evil guys. Nixon is at the top, but Nixon opened China. Helms did nothing. Helms is really as evil as McCarthy, and did much to continue the racist hatred of the 40s and 50s into the 70s.

Any day that a guy like Helms dies is a good day. He spent a lifetime hating others. He hated gays. He hated liberals. He hated blacks. He hated everybody except white crackers. And the white crackers in NC loved him because they also hate blacks, gays, and liberals. The backwoods small towns of NC are filled with nasty people. I went to Thanksgiving dinner at my then-girlfriend's house. I was not welcome. I was in a sub-version of "Guess who's coming to dinner?" Liberals and blacks were equally unwelcome. Especially uppity liberals who were well-educated.

It's a good day. A very evil person has died.

by dataguy on Fri Jul 4th, 2008 at 07:42:10 PM EST

Re: I lived in NC from 1975-1983 (none / 0)

Talking about Helm's style racism in NC, here's a story, (the first 3 of 4 installments), about a summer camp in Rosman, NC that was attacked by locals in 1963 because they first thought black kids were at the camp and then because they were "outsiders" of questionable moral character.

This camp was the predecessor to a school I went to, Summerlane School (and later Green Valley School), and while I wasn't at the camp myself, several friends I made at the school 8 months later were. Two of them recently told me the town of Rosman had a sign prominently displayed that said, basically, "We Ain't Had No Niggers Here In 60 Years".

Now the Summerlane operators went on to have their own shabby record in subsequent years, from child sexual molestation by the Reverend George von Hilsheimer who ran the place and a few others, to other forms of violence and medical experimentation and hackery perpetrated upon children by him and a few others. But while they were at Rosman for the very brief time they were in that first year, none of this other stuff had started yet, and they certainly didn't deserve to be assaulted by the redneck bigots.

In any case I'm sure the creature Helms would have been a hero to those violent cowards back then and his entire professional career seems to have had at its core the determination to perpetuate the weaponized ignorance exemplified by the marauding racists in this story.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

by sbj on Fri Jul 4th, 2008 at 09:00:56 PM EST
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