My eyebrow just went up questioningly...
Youngster, would you care to elaborate? I'm no fan of Helms', but your blanket dismissal, especially on the heels of your statements regarding Thurmond (whose past sins were attoned for before his death) are somewhat....questionable...
Ol' Jesse H is a race baiter, known for his ads featuring the wife of the opponent of a man for whom he was working dancing with a black man. This was the point of the ad, the fact that she was dancing with a black man. Most of us here know his famous Hands ad where a white man loses his job to a black man because of affirmative action. I'm non-white and strongly oppose affirmative action, I feel that it is racist. Supporting Jesse Helms because he's good on every other issue is the same as how liberals support Robert Byrd despite his Grand Kleagleness. I am colorblind when it comes to race; I do not demonize Southerners and do not wish to make an issue of race, but I call it like I see it.