Report: Helms apologetic on AIDS, not segregation

[CatWoman]

tell me again about the "inclusiveness" of the Republican party.....

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- In his upcoming memoir, former Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic but believes integration was forced before its time by "outside agitators who had their own agendas."

"Here's Where I Stand," to be published in September by Random House, contains Helms' first extended comments on national affairs since the Republican retired from the Senate in 2003 after five terms. Advance proofs were described in Thursday's editions of The News & Observer of Raleigh.

Helms, 83, was one of the state's leading voices of segregation as a TV commentator in Raleigh in the 1960s and opposed nearly every civil rights bill while in the Senate. He has never retracted his views on race or said segregation was wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/09/helms.memoir.ap/index.html

[supernova]

1. Here's the thread from LBN

I remember watching him on Channel 5 when I was kid and even then thinking he was a moron.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1535197

[Sandpiper]

2. Unapologetic racist to the very end

Say hello Strom when you get to hell Jesse.

[CatWoman]

5. and these bastards are representative of the old Democratic party

who left because they vehemently opposed civil rights legislation.

I slap that in the face of Freepers every chance I get -- especially when they use the "KKK Byrd" strawman.

[Sandpiper]

6. Ask them why St. Ronald left the Democratic Party

And the answer is the same.

He got his panties in a bunch about the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (which he stated he would not have voted for).

[jmaier]

3. One has to wonder actually what timeframe

Jesse had in mind "integration was forced before its time." Seems to me that it was still 200 years too late.

[Spectral]

4. What a completely rotten individual

Never should have been in Congress