Bye, Jesse, you left quite a legacy
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 13:00:00 PM EDT

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Jesse Helms has died. As a native and current resident of North Carolina, even today many people I run into outside of this state who know little about it -- recognize the name Jesse Helms. He leaves a long, dark trail of professional racial bigotry (he opposed the MLK national holiday, and civil rights legislation) and homophobia (that list is so long, you don't know where to begin).

    Former U.S. Sen. Jesse A. Helms, the son of a Monroe police chief who rose to national prominence as one of the leading lions of the American right, died early this morning. He was 86.

 

His loss. Dying with such hatred may only leave you in that state forever. LOL afterlife paranoia!