From Wikipedia, via the blog Bitch, Ph.D.:
"Helms once deeply offended a black colleague, Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, by singing part of "Dixie" on a Capitol elevator.
Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) ran into Mosely-Braun in a Capitol elevator. Helms turned to his friend, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries." He then proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during slavery to Mosely-Braun (Gannett News Service, 1993-09-02; Time, 1993-08-16).[17]"
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Jesse Helms, RIP
They say de mortuis nil nisi bonum, in some circles. Ahhh...sometimes you have to make exceptions.
from The Guardian's obituary, via AmericaBlog:
"In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress," voted against a Supreme Court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda," acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord."
from The Guardian's obituary, via AmericaBlog:
"In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress," voted against a Supreme Court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda," acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord."
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