MarkWarner08
Junior Chimp
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« edited: July 04, 2008, 01:25:25 PM by MarkWarner08 »
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"What is unique about Helms is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans." -- David Broder
Even Strom Thurmond reformed his ways at the end of his career. Sadly, Jesse Helms was an inveterate racist. May the lord have mercy on his soul.
“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘n, n, n,’ ” said Atwater. “By 1968, you can’t say ‘n’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.”
Jesse Helms spent his entire career in the 1950s.
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