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jesse helms dies
Published Jul 4, 2008Views: 1281
Regardless of how you felt about Jesse's politics, one had to respect he never retreated on his core beliefs, his soul was not for sale...jack
Raleigh, N.C. — Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died early Friday, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
He was 86.
His cause of death was not released.
Helms served five terms in the U.S. Senate, retiring in 2003 because of his faltering health. During his 30 years in Capitol Hill, the North Carolina Republican became a powerful voice for a conservative movement that was growing both in Congress and across the country, and he used his position to speak out against issues like gay rights, federal funding for the arts and U.S. foreign aid.
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drunksober is so ignorant that he screams about racism from the former Senator and then goes on a tirade about reparations. Punishing white people living today for what was done over a hundred years ago does not seem racist to you?
You are still a slave as are many others in this Nation. There was merely an exchange from the task masters' whips to the democrats' welfare checks.
Your ignorance keeps you and others like you in chains. Rather than make your own success in this world you have to blame all of your personal failings on those evil white republicans.
Now, hold onto your socks, this next item will shock you...Martin Luther King was a REPUBLICAN.
Democrats have owned slaves since there have been democrats. They certainly appear to have bought you, as well.
July 4, 2008 12:34 p.m.
True. Megalomania and narcissism are pretty universal to both of them. :-D
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July 4, 2008 12:35 p.m.
Pot, meet kettle.
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July 4, 2008 12:39 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 12:45 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 12:46 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 12:46 p.m.
You must be getting illed. Your run-on sentences are getting longer.
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July 4, 2008 12:46 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 12:47 p.m.
Because they went out and got them on their own efforts instead of lying around waiting for a government check.
What specific benefits of slavery exist today? I want one good example of something of lasting value and benefit that was created with slave labor.
Railroads? Schools? Highways? Waterlines? Sewer Systems? Airports?
If you are for reparations, pay them with your money. You just leave me out of it since I had nothing to do with it. Keep your liberal white guilt to yourself.
July 4, 2008 12:47 p.m.
July 4, 2008 12:48 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 12:50 p.m.
What does the time frame have to do with the evil of the practice? You know who truly has courage and deserves respect? Someone willing to stand in front of that crowd and say "this is wrong. Take a good long look at yourselves, people."
Doing that requires courage. Playing to the gallery of people's prejudices and hatreds just requires being an opportunist.
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July 4, 2008 12:54 p.m.
These leftist apologists keep insisting that if it were not for black slaves, this country would still be in something like the stone age. They attribute virtually all the infrastructure created in the Americas and particularly in the US to forced slave labor. What they ignore is that over 90 percent of all slaves were involved in agriculture, mainly tobacco, cotton,and sugar cane. Very few of them were put to work as slaves in building any of our structures, railroads, telegraph lines or the other innovations that propelled our country into superiority.
Indeed, where there WERE slaves of any great number, primarily in the south, the economy languished for many decades after the financial gains of those states which did NOT have slavery.
July 4, 2008 12:56 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:00 p.m.
It seems to be working well for the democrats. And when you start talking about fighting institutional racism in the south, remember that it was democrats that were in charge during that time frame. Democrats voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. Democrats were the originators of the KKK. Democrats wrote all of the Jim Crow laws.
Democrats have always used race as a political wedge issue.
July 4, 2008 1:01 p.m.
We are successful in large part because we got rid of slavery and were the first to do so. Most of the rest of the world -- China, India a lot of Africa, the Arab world, and parts of South America -- are still trying to catch up. Maybe by getting rid of slavery, they would have a chance.
July 4, 2008 1:02 p.m.
Democrats have always used race as a political wedge issue."
Um, yea. Helms was a Democrat back then. He didn't switch gears until the early 70s, when it became apparent that Dems had lost the South, in LBJ's words "for a generation", and any politician seeking national office probably needed to be on the new bandwagon.
What, if anything, does that have to do with him being a bad person, regardless of what party he chose to align himself with, for supporting, quite loudly, an evil institution?
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July 4, 2008 1:05 p.m.
We'll just have to disagree. The concept of segregation is anathema to every principle this nation ostensibly stands for. Time frame has nothing to do with it. Some things are just inherently wrong regardless of when they happen.
It's easy to follow the crowd, and difficult to stand up for what is right. In this case, he was clearly on the wrong (and evil) side of that argument.
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July 4, 2008 1:08 p.m.
Thanks, Steve. I appreciate the primer on history, but my comments were addressed to the practice / institution of segregation, not slavery. Perhaps you just became a little confused with the rapid pace of the responses and got me argument confused with someone elses?
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July 4, 2008 1:10 p.m.
Thank you for proving my point. Racism inherent in democrat policies is what drove the conservative democrats out of the party. Being against some particular legislation (especially liberal legislation) does not make one a racist. Most policies of liberal thought towards minorities are racist in their lowered expectatons from blacks and other minorities. The over riding thought being "those poor black folks can't make it on their own with out us rich white liberals". What a complete load...
Going to go fie up the grill - too much freedom to celebrate to be wasting time with liberals who care nothing for liberty.
Enjoy your freedoms until Obama gets elected.
July 4, 2008 1:12 p.m.
July 4, 2008 1:12 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:13 p.m.
From a moron who can't spell joyous.
Read a book idiot.
July 4, 2008 1:14 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:16 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:16 p.m.
Were it not for the imposition of forced integration, blacks would continued to improve their living conditions, housing availability, educational opportunities, and business successes. With forced integration, blacks were immediately put at a disadvantage and their businesses suffered, their kids began to receive less of an education than before since white schools really did have inferior teachers, and they were eventually forced into ghettos instead of being encouraged to own their own land and homes.
Great legacy there.
July 4, 2008 1:17 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:17 p.m.
Wow, how will I ever survive that blistering retort.....
And I'm grilling chicken...nothing wrong with my arteries...full of red hot American freedom loving blood...
I now return you to your liberal hate fest...
July 4, 2008 1:19 p.m.
Which has what, if anything, to do with the premise that segregation is wrong by its very nature, and that he was a bad man for LOUDLY defending it?
What am I supposed to assume here? That he was simply too weak to stand up for what was right because it would have cost him too much politically, or that he didn't stand up for it because he agreed with the evil policy itself.
Either way, it doesn't garner my respect, sorry.
And with that, I'm bowing out. I'm not feeling entirely right with speaking ill of the dead, no matter how evil I felt them to be.
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July 4, 2008 1:21 p.m.
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July 4, 2008 1:23 p.m.
Were it not for the imposition of forced integration, blacks would continued to improve their living conditions, housing availability, educational opportunities, and business successes. With forced integration, blacks were immediately put at a disadvantage and their businesses suffered, their kids began to receive less of an education than before since white schools really did have inferior teachers, and they were eventually forced into ghettos instead of being encouraged to own their own land and homes.
Great legacy there."
Ah, ok, I'm clear on your position now. It was murky for a second.
You're saying that you believe segregation to have been a good thing, and believe that everything would have been much better if we as a society had just left it in place. In other words, you agree with and support the policy of segregation.
Preciate the clarification.
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July 4, 2008 1:34 p.m.
You're your own worst enemy at times. You do realize that, right?
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July 4, 2008 1:37 p.m.
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common sense, you know I have actually been told that, by a well educated black man at that
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