Just thought I'd let the home crowd know...

[NC_Nurse]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3381664

Ding, dong, the witch is dead...and all that.

editted for typo, of course.

[struggle4progress]

1. Jesse Helms and Speaking ill of the Dead

Posted Jul 8th 2008 9:00AM by Madison J. Gray
Filed under: BlackSpin

... I'm not one to be glad that anyone has died, but I certainly hope that his brand of racist, hate-fueled politics died with him ...

He was a staunch pro-lifer, and there's nothing wrong with being on the conservative side of the abortion debate, if that's what floats your boat, but to the point of attacking Planned Parenthood? He was also chair of the Congressional Foreign Relations Committee, but he worked to eliminate foreign aid and supported apartheid in South Africa.

He was an opponent of civil rights, and a staunch opponent of making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday and in the wake of King's death said of Duke University students holding a vigil: "They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro" ...

I've read for years about the Republican party wondering why it couldn't win more black converts to their side. It always seemed obvious to me as well as millions of embittered black voters. But if they are that bewildered, then they need look no further than Helms' cantankerous track record ...

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/07/08/jesse-helms-and-speaking-ill-of-the-dead/

[struggle4progress]

2. Former Sen. Jesse Helms, 86, dies (N&O)

... Along with former gubernatorial candidate I. Beverly Lake Sr., Helms was a leading voice for segregation in North Carolina. Unlike other well-known segregationists, such as Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Thurmond, Helms never repudiated his views or reached out to black voters.

He portrayed the civil rights movement as being planned in Moscow, dismissed Martin Luther King Jr. as a Marxist and a pervert, and called racial integration a phony issue ...

Helms ... opposed nearly every nuclear arms agreement with the Soviet Union and most international treaties, including an anti-genocide pact ...

He .... befriended ... Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, colonels charged with running death squads in El Salvador, and the apartheid regimes of South Africa and the former Rhodesia ...

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1131456-p4.html