Jesse Helms died today, on Independence Day, 86ed at 86. Quotes from the senator follow:
I shall always remember the shady streets, the quiet Sundays, the cotton wagons, the Fourth of July parades, the New Year’s Eve firecrackers. I shall never forget the stream of school kids marching uptown to place flowers on the Courthouse Square monument on Confederate Memorial Day.
There’s nothing quite like yearning for slave times, that captures the morality of a man.
To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn’t have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.
Happy Independence from Jesse Helms, everybody!
