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Really. Why would a modern day governor of North Carolina honor a white racist?
"White people, wake up before it is too late," said one ad. "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
"When Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois became the first African-American woman to sit in the Senate, Helms followed Moseley-Braun into an elevator, announcing to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch: "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries."
The University of North Carolina was “the University of Negroes and Communists.” (Capital Times, 11/22/94) Black civil rights activists were “Communists and sex perverts.” (Copley News Service, 8/23/01)
“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.” (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963) He also wrote, “Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced.” (New York Times, 2/8/81)
A year before the election, when public polls showed Helms trailing by 20 points, he launched a Senate filibuster against the bill making the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday. (David Broder, Washington Post, Aug, 29, 2001)
First of all, he was not from Charlotte, he was from Union County, there's a big difference between the two, you just like to take cheapshots at Charlotte every chance you get!
Last edited by prwfromnc; 10-26-2013 at 04:07 AM..
Jesse Helms was a far more complex character than one would gather from reading this little thread -- a product of his time and place. In some ways, he served the state well; in other ways, he was an embarrassment; in person he was quite cordial; he was rarely "mean;" he had little to do with Charlotte.
Jesse had a lot of issues, but having a real senator, rather than those two puppets we have now, brought a lot of benefits to NC. Classic case of what is wrong with our legislative branch. No matter who represents you, the longer he or she is in office, the more power, make that more pork, they can bring home. Jesse brought a lot of pork home, amongst other things.
You brought up quotes (which I guess are real I did not research it or get their source) but you listed quotes as distant as the 1960s. Totally different times.
How many Americans, polticians, etc have said or done things that would not be right today? Should we just get rid of any holiday that honors those in the past that held slaves, or said racist things? Look up some quotes by Abe Lincoln about what he said about race....
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