very sad for his family but i have not been this happy since the wicked witch of the west was melted by Dorothy. The 4th of July will forever have another meaning for celebration.

ps: i am from NC

yeah, a human being who died and I have sympathy for those who love him, but no great loss in my mind!

...I guess his family loved him and shit...too bad for them... but.....

I always wondered what he thought of this:



I remember when this first aired, I was watching it with my mom and we were just the whole time.


I do hope that he rests in peace and my heart goes out to his family.

However, I don't agree with his politics at all.

Is he the senator with the "secret" biracial love children all over the south?

who?

Did he just die? I thought he died a few years ago.

It is amazing reading what people say about him. This is a scary place.

Stymie said:

You mean the above posts? I suppose it is just a reflection on what mark he had on people's lives with his remarks about certain groups of people.

HamsterHuey said:

Oh no, I'm sorry. There is a page online where people can leaves condolences and they speak of what a great man he is. America is a scary place.

Stymie said:

you're probably thinking of Strom Thurmond.

i remember when the Dalai Lama met with Jesse Helms - hard to imagine two more different people, sitting down to talk.

JasmineFire said:

No, that's Strom Thurmond you're thinking of. He had a "secret" daughter. The woman was underaged when she got pregnant with his child. Stat. rape. SC's senator.....even has a high school named after him. He opposed civil rights and was a segregationist.....but later on claimed his views were different His daughter has a book out about the whole ordeal. I was kinda happy when shit hit the fan here.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Ooops.....stepped away and replied....just shy a few minutes. Did you ever read Strom's daughter's book?

AnckSuNamun said:

it's hard not to confuse Strom and Jesse.

no, i never read her book - i bet it was interesting!

May he rest in peace. Maybe now he'll realize that he was wrong to preach so much hate.

If there is a hell, I hope he and Strom are burning in it. I'm so happy he's gone.

F-ck Jesse Helms, f-ck his family, and f-ck his followers. They can all kiss my black ass two times.

he even had his own cartoon!


[Edited 7/5/08 14:46pm]

Jesse's dead, that's what i said

WHO?!?!?

Volitan said:

He was a Senator from North Carolina. A fairly representative example of him:

Often he was the lone voice of dissent in a Senate of 100 often like-minded members. He fought his Republican colleagues as often as his Democratic counterparts. He was the only senator to vote against confirming Henry A. Kissinger as secretary of State during the Nixon administration and Frank C. Carlucci as secretary of Defense during the Reagan presidency. And he was the only senator to vote against making the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. His lone dissent came only after he conducted a 16-day filibuster against the King holiday, during which Helms took to the Senate floor to decry the assassinated King, a pacifist and beloved civil rights leader, for his "action-oriented Marxism."