Back in the day some of the rhetoric that came out of Jesse Helms pie hole was enough to give anyone nightmares. This is a guy who once called The University of North Carolina “The University of Negroes and Communists”. Dude was ultra-right even for the Reagan crowd. Others blasts from the old fossil: “I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she cries.” – which he said to US Sen. Orrin Hatch about Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun. Another was: “The government should spend less money on people with AIDS because they got sick as a result of deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.” Seriously??? The guy just had such revolting views. As I am getting older, I often read this comic strip and miss a lot of things from the ’80s but that guy is someone the ’80s could have done without!
Back in the day some of the rhetoric that came out of Jesse Helms pie hole was enough to give anyone nightmares. This is a guy who once called The University of North Carolina “The University of Negroes and Communists”. Dude was ultra-right even for the Reagan crowd. Others blasts from the old fossil: “I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she cries.” – which he said to US Sen. Orrin Hatch about Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun. Another was: “The government should spend less money on people with AIDS because they got sick as a result of deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.” Seriously??? The guy just had such revolting views. As I am getting older, I often read this comic strip and miss a lot of things from the ’80s but that guy is someone the ’80s could have done without!