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  • Snakes On A Plane
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  • July 8, 2008, 10:47 AM

  • Trifecta news day – the man who played Bozo the Clown died; a transgendered man in Oregon gave birth to a baby girl; Jesse Helms died of “natural causes” in North Carolina at the age of 86. 

    The man who told his friend Orrin Hatch that he was going to sing Dixie to Carol Moseley Braun until she cried, who delivered his state to a lagging Ronald Reagan in the Republican primary, who loved all things Pinochet, who chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, who was a vile and constant homophobe has finally died. 

    In 1984, I went to Raleigh-Durham to perform at a benefit to raise funds to help defeat Helms in his third Senate re-election bid.  Liz Snow, an old friend from Syracuse, New York, who worked at Ladyslipper Records, picked me up at the airport and briefed me on Helms sleaze campaign stories as we drove to the hall.

    As we clunked along in Liz’s mini-truck, in the middle of a particularly horrific race-baiting story, at the last second we saw what we both thought was a huge log across the road.  A second before we hit it, we saw that it was a huge snake. Liz gunned it and screamed, “It’s Jesse Helms!” We flew through the air like a Dukes of Hazzard car chase scene.  Helms was a snake,  a huge speed bump to progressives in the South and the nation.  Good-bye, Jesse Helms.  Let’s hear it for natural causes.

    Happy Independence Day!
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By RmblinRose July 14, 2008, 10:18 AM
Snakes...even Indiana Jones didn't like snakes.....this morning on the Early Show....and family was talking about tracing their Northern roots into the Slave trade business....while the author was talking about racial discrimination a point she made seemed to transend all barriers of discrimination.......the North benefitted and was deeply embedded in the slave trade...and to remove themselves saying we didn't have anything to do with it...is ridiculous....all the good economic etc things that the north has ...came from the slave trade.....so why bring this up....homophobia....the LGBT community has given so much to society....and we still get some token gratification....but denied rights, liberties and freedoms of the average (ie: straight) citizen....yet we are the backbone of what is good....RIP (repent if possible) Jesse Helms & posse
By taoistdyke July 10, 2008, 9:09 AM

Hmm.  Interesting news about Jesse Helms.  He's a big part of the reason I moved AWAY from NC in 1993.  If karma has its way, he'll come back immediately as an African-American screaming queen to learn how it feels to be at the other end of the prejudicial stick.  We can only hope. 

I'm glad to know there are people out there who remember the damage he inflicted on our community.  Now that I live in the Seattle area, I find that people here do not understand what I'm talking about when I refer to the hatred I witnessed when I lived there.  They look at me like I'm from another planet.  Compared to Seattle, though, I guess it WAS another planet.  

Cheers!

Beth 

 

 

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