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Thu Jun 11, 2009 at 12:30:00 PM EDT
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 My state is getting over its fringe-conservative hangover, having turned Blue in the last election, but we've still got a General Assembly full of lawmakers willing to honor a bigot and homophobe like the late Jesse Helms. But not all of them. (QNotes):Sen. Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover), North Carolina's only openly gay or lesbian state legislator, voted against a resolution honoring the life of the late Jesse Helms on Wednesday, June 10. She was the only legislator to register a vote against the honorary resolution. Twenty-six other legislators, meanwhile, sat out of the vote.
The resolution, which passed the Senate 41-1 and the House 98-0, states, "The General Assembly of North Carolina expresses its appreciation for the life and public service of Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr., and honors his memory."
..."I could have never voted in favor of a resolution honoring Sen. Helms because of his divisive history and his anti-civil-rights principles," said Sen. Floyd McKissick (D-Durham), according to an Associated Press report. Mark Binker of the Greensboro News & Record saw members of the legislative black caucus just walked off of the floor rather than vote."This is just the best place for me to be right now," said Rep. Alma Adams, a Greensboro Democrat and chairman of the caucus.
Rep. Earl Jones, a Greensboro Democrat, was more evasive: "I'm just taking a break," he said. Why did all those legislators vote for the resolution honoring the late racist and gay-hater? Well, as a U.S. Senator, he brought home the bacon, was very responsive to constituents, and well, the genteel folks in the General Assembly don't like to disrespect the dead.
Quite frankly all of the people who died of AIDS during Helms's tenure in the Senate, where he disapproved of funding to fight the spread of the epidemic were disrespected -- and he slept like a baby at night. He said gay men were "weak, morally sick wretches" who contracted the disease through their own "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."
In 1988, Helms said, "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy." UPDATE: Chris Kromm of the Institute of Southern Studies asked a great question -- "What would John Hope Franklin say about NC legislature's decision to honor Sen. Jesse Helms?"At today's memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann -- daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin's -- related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar. In a conversation about the North Carolina political landscape, someone asked Franklin "Where did Jesse Helms come from?" Franklin quickly replied, "From hell" -- "not missing a beat," Mann said.
It was a sentiment shared by many African-Americans, civil rights allies and others in North Carolina. Helms rose to prominence in the 1960s for his vitriolic rants against integration on WRAL TV. His Old South views never really changed: Into the 1990s, he was still giggling at the word "nigger" ...
One wonders what John Hope Franklin would have thought about the North Carolina General Assembly's decision this week to pass a resolution honoring Helms by overwhelming margins.
The text of the resolution -- which passed 41-1 in the Senate and 98-0 in the House -- skips past Helms' media bromides for segregation, describing his TV career as one "devoted ... to the highest standards of journalism."
Helms is also praised in the bill for his "unyielding commitment to integrity and the principles of faith, freedom, and the power of free enterprise" and called "a leading historical figure of our times." |
| Pam Spaulding :: NC: Resolution honoring life of Jesse Helms draws mass walk-out and vote against it by out lawmaker |
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* Jesse Helms memoirs: race matters. A snippet from that post:I would watch good old Jesse back in the day when he was a commentator on WRAL in Raleigh. I remember as a child listening to him rail on race on our black and white TV. I wondered why this man was so hateful. You didn't have to be an adult to get the clear message that he didn't like black folks encroaching on his lily-white world. They belonged in their place. "We will never know how integration might have been achieved in neighborhoods across our land, because the opportunity was snatched away by outside agitators who had their own agendas to advance. We certainly do know the price paid by the stirring of hatred, the encouragement of violence, the suspicion and distrust. We do know that too many lives were lost, businesses were destroyed, millions of dollars were diverted from books and teachers to support the cost of buses and gasoline. We do know that turning our public schools into social laboratories almost destroyed them." |
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