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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (329566)	12/16/2002 3:58:49 PM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Respond to of 769670

The Faces of Unrepentent Bigotry in America Jesse Helms - In 1950 Helms helps create attack ads for Willis Smith which read, "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." In 1990 during his campaign against Harvey Gant, Helms would bring back the racist refrain with an ad showing white hands crumpling up a piece of paper while a voice-over intones, "You needed that job…but they had to give it to a minority." - In editorials and commentaries in the 50's and 60's Helms called UNC "the University of Negroes and Communists." - In 1963 he said. "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." - In 1993 he sang "Dixie" in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman senator, bragging, "I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." - In 1995 while a guest on Larry King, a caller praised Helms for "everything you've done to help keep down the niggers." Helms responded, "Well, thank you, I think." - In 1983 Strom Thurmond voted for a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Jesse Helms led the fight against it, going to court to try to force the FBI to open its files on the man Helms still considered a Communist. - In his 1990 reelection campaign her mailed letters to 44,000 black North Carolinians and to residents of 86 predominantly black precincts warning them falsely that they were ineligible to vote, and could be prosecuted if they showed up at the polls. - In 1986 he helped Pik Botha, South Africa's foreign minister and a legendary apartheid apparatchik, threaten farm-state senators that if the U.S. imposed sanctions, Pretoria would cancel imports of American grain. Strom Thurmond - In 1948 Thurmond ran for president on a segregationist platform. Duringh the race he said, "I want to tell you, ladies and gentleman, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches." - In 1956 he wrote the Southern Manifesto condeming the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. The Board of Education which ended school segregation. - In 1957 he filibustered against the Civil Rights Act. - Awarded an honorary degree racist/sexist/anti-Catholic bastion, Bob Jones University - Has defended the Confederate battle flag. - In 1965 joined the GOP after Barry Goldwater showed himself as a fellow racist by voting against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Strom Speaks His Mind "Our niggers is better off than most anybody's niggers, why, they got washing machines and some of'um even got televisions. I can't understand why they complaining." "I want to tell you that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the niggers into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into out homes, and into our churches" Trent Lott - Has maintained close ties to the racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) for at least two decades. - In 1990's spoke at fundraisers supporting schools practicing segregation. - In 1962 became an aide to William Colmer, a hardcore segragationalist. Later he left the Democratic party to join the GOP. - In 1963 joined the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a white supremecist organization that in 1964 provided information to the KKK which resulted in the murder of three Civil Rights Activists. - During the 1980's Lott lobbied the Reagan administration to protect the tax exempt status of segregated schools such as Bob Jones University. - Opposed extensions of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 and 1990. - Opposed an extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. - When first elected to Congress, Lott introduced a bill to halt school desgregation. - In 2002, during Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, expressed his support for Thurmond's segregationist presidential bid in 1948, saying "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Thurmond's campaign ran on a pro-lynching, pro-poll tax, pro-segregation platform. Don't believe it? Check out this sample ballot from that election. thoughtcrimes.org