[Jesse Helms] “opposed civil rights”? Uh, no. He opposed a particular vision of them.
John J. Miller,
National Review, 7/04/08
White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.
Jesse Helms,
campaign advertisement, 1950
The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.
Jesse Helms,
WRAL-TV commentary, 1963
Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced.
Jesse Helms,
NY Times, 2/8/81
The civil rights movement, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King calls it, has had an uncommon number of moral degenerates leading the parade. The Negroes of America have a Congress that would tomorrow enact Webster’s Dictionary into law with a civil rights label on it.
Jesse Helms,
1965
Jesse Helms has repeatedly fought for the best interests of the White race and America. He may have compromised on a few issues under heavy pressure, but among modern Senators, Jesse Helms was the best by a large margin.
James Buchanan,
White Civil Rights.com, 7/04/08
Jesse Helms was a true patriot and statesman.He will be missed.
redneckst8ofmind,
Stormfront.com, 7/04/08
Some links Via, and. See also, and.
July 5, 2008 at 10:17 pm
“You needed that job, and you were the most qualified, but they had to give it to a minority to meet some racial quota.”
July 5, 2008 at 11:09 pm
“Sometimes I wish The Sun would just explode.”
– Shaver
July 5, 2008 at 11:20 pm
“Hoofprints in the Sand
We walked side by side
Through the sands of time,
Your tiny mortal hand
Clutching mine.
And you asked me, “Dark master,
Where did your hoofprints go
During my hardest times?”
My son, I never left you,
That was when I stood on the small of your back
And Dug my spurrs deep into your thighs.
You see that pool of blood over there?
Yeah, that’s your divorce;
The second one…
The one you said you’d do anything to make it work;
You Remember that?
That was me.
Making sure the cocaine was always around.
As I ram your carcass
Through an impossibly small hole,
Into a sea of flaming hot human feces,
When you can’t draw a breath,
Yet your lungs are filled
With the same flaming hot human feces
No matter how fast you run,
Or where you hide, know this:
I am always with you,
Amused by your pathetic attempts to escape,
And I laugh like this
Ha ha ha ha ha (repeat)”
ahh…Jesse and Satan will be a shackn’ up tonight, Rusty.
July 6, 2008 at 12:14 am
Hitler “opposed the Jews”? Hardly. Hitler just advocated for a particular vision of them…as, you know, corpses.
July 6, 2008 at 5:05 am
Yeah well, just remember that it is the liberals who are the true racists. How? They just are O.K.
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Shut up! Micheal Moore is fat!
July 6, 2008 at 5:08 am
Oh my God! My little monster avatar is wearing a burkha! Islamofascists!!1!!1
July 6, 2008 at 7:43 am
Buckley’s NR and Jesse Helms had the same “vision” of civil rights, all right. Back of the bus, separate drinking fountains (I remember them!), poll taxes, etc.
July 6, 2008 at 9:25 am
The wisdom Webster’s Dictionary before it was erased by a particular vision of civil rights:
Note: Naturalists and ethnographers divide mankind into several distinct varieties, or races. Cuvier refers them all to three, Pritchard enumerates seven, Agassiz eight, Pickering describes eleven. One of the common classifications is that of Blumenbach, who makes five races: the Caucasian, or white race, to which belong the greater part of the European nations and those of Western Asia; the Mongolian, or yellow race, occupying Tartary, China, Japan, etc.; the Ethiopian, or negro race, occupying most of Africa (except the north), Australia, Papua, and other Pacific Islands; the American, or red race, comprising the Indians of North and South America; and the Malayan, or brown race, which occupies the islands of the Indian Archipelago, etc. Many recent writers classify the Malay and American races as branches of the Mongolian.
July 6, 2008 at 9:49 am
Saying someone opposes civil rights is a little bit like saying someone opposes the weather. John J. Miller was right. He only opposed a certain vision of civil rights — a world where people have them.
July 6, 2008 at 9:59 am
Can anybody explain what in tarnation this
The Negroes of America have a Congress that would tomorrow enact Webster’s Dictionary into law with a civil rights label on it.
is even supposed to mean? This is getting beyond plain old evil, racist prick territory and getting into serious “you kids get off my lawn” territory. He might as well have referred to “wearing an onion on his belt, as was the custom at the time” …
July 6, 2008 at 10:15 am
I take it to mean that the dictionary is a sinister conspiracy against “Southern heritage”. Don’t even get him started on the phone book!
July 6, 2008 at 11:52 am
Given 43 years’ retrospective since Lyndon Baines Johnson and his obscene “Great Society,” the South was right. The South exercised manners, morals, ethics, faith, and patriotism defined with their own blood in every US conflict. Above all the South knew their slaves’ worth and agenda.
The South was right. Less than half the US is now Caucasian. Jesse Helms will be vindicated pro patria as a tenebrous future unfolds. The Stars and Bars is a more honorable standard than anything waved by HUD, Head Start, HHS, or Homeland Severity.
July 6, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Hey, Uncle Al, you lost. Get over it.
The US is getting darker. Too bad. Get used to it.
July 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm
‘You keep saying that the fact that I have never worked and have been living in my parents’ basement for 30 years means that I am opposed to jobs.
‘Uh, no, I am just opposed to a particular vision of them.’
July 6, 2008 at 2:43 pm
White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?
Whitey woke up, and that’s why 58 years later there are virtually no mills or factories in America. As plans go, it was not a very good one.
July 6, 2008 at 3:37 pm
“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.”
-Garrison Keillor
July 6, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Perhaps for comparison purposes you should also take a look at some of the writings/sayings of senior Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, and former Grand HooHaw of the KKK, from 40 years ago.
July 6, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Wow, never get sick of hearing about Byrd or having to explain in itty bitty words the obvious.
Perhaps you can go pound sand up your ass.
July 6, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Helms was on WRAL-TV in North Carolina, giving the station’s editorials 5 nights a week, from 1960 to his Senate run in 1972, and yet not one bit of footage of Helms’ commentaries remains. Some of the written notes, yes, but film or video? Gone.
July 6, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Mac A. :
Ah yes, the old “but but but Robert Byrd!!!” canard.
Nice try, but you would have been better served by either
“It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault”
or
“But Clinton did it first!”
or
“Michael Moore is fat!!!!”
oh wait, Gundamhead beat me to it …
July 6, 2008 at 6:24 pm
It’s funny how the only racist Dixiecrat conservatives can’t forgive is the one who repents.
July 6, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Helms was more than just a racist during a period when racism was common in both parties. I can’t say I ever liked his “pay as you go” style of government, but it was straightforward Conservatism as opposed to the faux kind served up by neo-cons, filled with bloated agencies and ballooning budgets devoted to their pet projects.
A true story: I worked for a while at a public radio station near Raleigh, North Carolina. The station never applied for, nor took, any federal dollars in funding, unlike most others of its kind. Helms helped out in getting state support, and contributed family help to raise money on-air.
So his ideology was a bit more complex than some let on. Mind you, I still loathe it, but…he deserves to be regarded as more than just as a reductio ad absurdum strawman.
July 6, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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July 6, 2008 at 7:51 pm
If he’s a strawman, he grew the wheat.Fuck off, CPE.
July 6, 2008 at 9:05 pm
“he deserves to be regarded as more than just as a reductio ad absurdum strawman.”
I want that on my tombstone.
As for Jesse: he warn’t ALL bad. A decent chap in ,many ways, I’m sure. But boy were him hell on nigrahs. Hoo-EE!!!
July 6, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Is it me or has there been a resurgence of Internet incivility of late?
Air Wolf waits with bated missiles…
July 6, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Byrd recognized the error of his ways and worked tirelessly to change himself and the society that birthed them. Big difference between Helms and Byrd, Byrd was trying to help his miners while Helms was burying them by saving them from OSHA. Helms was a quack, with zero philosophical mettle. Helms said that which would get him re-elected, not what his carefully crafted philosophy demanded. A little scary when the dictionary is code for, “pointed headed liberal intellectuals who say things I don’t understand therefor they’re trying to trick us.” He saw the fear and anxiety of the working poor, and he spun them around and pointed them in the wrong direction. John Edwards filling Helm’s seat was a very good thing, (even though he might have lost re-election, I think he could of persuaded himself back if he hadn’t of run for president and looked like Michael J. Fox’s little brother, “Slick J. Fox.”, even though he weren’t.)
Is Airwolf warmed up yet? Damn.
July 7, 2008 at 4:41 am
You know, since ol’ Jesse often sounded like somebody who lips had just been injected with 10 times the legal limit of Novocaine while chewing peanut butter and marbles… maybe he wasn’t singing Dixie to Carol Moseley-Braun, but rather “Three Times a Lady” by the Commodores.
July 7, 2008 at 5:09 am
Hey Al? Remember when that ill-mannered, unethical, faithless slave-lover Sherman burned Georgia to the ground? Good times, good times.
Dulce et decorum indeed. Happy independence day: any time y’all feel like “rising again,” please let us know where to deliver the kindling to.
July 7, 2008 at 7:07 am
The South exercised manners, morals, ethics, faith, and patriotism defined with their own blood in every US conflict. Above all the South knew their slaves’ worth and agenda.
The South was right. Less than half the US is now Caucasian. – Uncle Al
You have a very odd understanding of the history and ideology of the South.
Southern manners are very much of African rather than European origin — Southern Gentleman and Ladies may have based much of their behavior on “reading one too many books by Walter Scott”, but their manners were taught to them by the slave nannies who brought them up.
E.g., what kind of English noble-kid calls his parents “sir” or “ma’am”? The call their parents “pater” and “mater” or whatever … using honorifics rather than identifiers of parentage for your parents? That’s African.
Indeed, the idea of a civilized, “noble” nobility was not something that existed in the manoral England on which Southern gentry modeled their society — the American revolution in the South was in fact very much a rejection of feudal obligations by the manor lords in favor of “liberty”. Certainly, Victorian notions of nobility were not present amongst the “barbarians” (what Matthew Arnold, IIRC, called the nobility before he and his family “tamed” them at places like Rugby, c.f. Made in Texas by Lind for a more full picture) — to the extent that the Southern Gentleman and Lady are humane rather than the dueling, hard-drinking, gambling nobility from which they descend, it is because of African mores and manners.
As to patriotism — the South secceeded! How patriotic is that? And is pushing for destructive wars so good for the country … or for the South which was always happy to send its poor to die for lost causes?
As to your racial question — part of the reason for our open borders, our so-called free-trade policy, etc., is because of the South (again, see Made in Texas, specifically the chapter on “Southernomics”). The South has always been a “Spartan” society dependent on foreign helots to do all the work.
Read Michael Lind’s (a Texan and Southerner from a long line of the same) Made in Texas. His policy ideas may be a bit out-of-whack and his critique of the Democratic party as “McKinley Republicans” may be a bit overdrawn and off-target (although he has a point), but he knows the South and can set you straight on it.
Lemma guess … y’all (Uncle Al) are a Northerner?
July 7, 2008 at 8:22 am
nihilists in golf pants
Shouldn’t that be the name of somebody’s blog?
July 7, 2008 at 8:31 am
DAS
here i was merrily reading a thread on asshat jesse helms, and you go and hijack with some learned discourse on the history of the notion of “southerness” via Michael Lind?
fuck’s sake, lad.
Also, Al is a fake troll.
OTOH it is a pretty learned little bit of discourse, so thanks for that.
July 7, 2008 at 8:39 am
It IS the name of somebody’s blog. Not mine.
July 7, 2008 at 9:21 am
“Perhaps for comparison purposes you should also take a look at some of the writings/sayings of senior Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, and former Grand HooHaw of the KKK, from 40 years ago.”
Excellent point.
Let’s make that comparison, shall we?
Jesse Helms. Was racist. Continued to be his whole life long.
Robert Byrd. Was racist. Stopped being a racist. Apologised. Now votes in favour of all civil rights measures.
What was your point again?
July 7, 2008 at 11:46 am
Byrd never did anything of the sort. In fact, as recently as four years ago, he was still tossing around the word, “nigger.”
July 7, 2008 at 11:50 am
Let’s further derail this thread into praise for Robert Byrd, who made THE most outspoken, passionate, and eloquent outcry against the original Iraq War Resolution of anyone in The Chamber. (Love that term.)
He pounded the friggin’ podium and with his frail pathetic old voice hollered, “HEar me! Hear me!”
It was beautiful, ins a tragic way.
I love old man Byrd.
Jesse? Talk about a betrayal of the Tarheel State.
July 7, 2008 at 12:54 pm
“Byrd never did anything of the sort.”
You are wrong as a point of fact:
Q: What has been your biggest mistake and your biggest success?
A: Well, it’s easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I’ve said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
That can at least be described as something ‘of the sort’.
See also Barack Obama’s encouter with Byrd, described in Audacity of Hope on page 100, where he talks about his one regret in life. Byrd endorsed Obama over Clinton and Edwards, btw.
Byrd’s 100% rating from the NAACP can be found here:
http://www.naacp.org/programs/bureau-dc/report_card/108th_Congressional_Report_Card.pdf
“In fact, as recently as four years ago, he was still tossing around the word, “nigger.””
True actually, though he was talking specifically about white people, trying to make a point (badly).
July 7, 2008 at 10:06 pm
One of these days, Alan M. “Uncle Al” Schwartz, Ph.D. Michigan State (Failed), will figure out that his fifteen minutes expired about 15 years ago. Or, maybe not.
July 8, 2008 at 1:01 pm
In fact, as recently as four posts ago, Mac A. was tossing around the term “nigger”.
July 8, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Does anybody know if Dreamweasel is still diddling his little sister? I had read on another blog that he was out of the slammer, so I assume somebody in his dysfunctional group is paying very close attention….or at least, I hope they are.
July 9, 2008 at 5:25 am
The only thought that came to mind upon hearing the news of racist helms’ death was “good.”
July 18, 2008 at 1:52 am
[...] Paglia makes three. But I can’t imagine what sorts of useful things conservatives would say about minorities if only they could brave the awesome might of PC Leftism. Probably something about sunscreen. [...]
December 23, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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December 25, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Looking at old news here, but I find it funny that when Mac the Racist was also shown to be wrong at the least (and likely knowingly so), he responded by falsely accusing someone of incest. Conservative logic at its finest!
December 27, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Mac A.: Let’s do that comparison … Do you see anyone here defending the KKK or other racists? No. Do you see anyone at NRO doing so? Why, yes. So shut the fuck up, you stinking racist right wing Republican piece of shit.
October 17, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I rolled Jesse Helms like a cigarette.
Smoked him higher than the highest of the minarets.
Jesse James couldn’t even handle it.
Started lookin’ at me like I was Sanskrit.