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Article: Ding-Dong, Jesse Helms is dead!(NEWS)(In memoriam)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2008
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FIRST JERRY FALWELL, NOW JESSE HELMS. One by one, the famous bigots of America are contributing their best (and last) service to this nation's progress--they're dying.
Helms, the former North Carolina senator who passed away July 4, was born in 1921--three years after World War I ended and the year Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party. Indoctrinated in hatred decades before the civil rights era, Helms was known to whistle racist songs to black elected officials, and, as evidenced by transcripts from any number of Senate hearings, he had an amazing obsession with butt sex. ("There is not one single case of AIDS in this ...