Jesse Helms, who believed blacks should use separate and intrinsically inferior facilities and who was a U.S. Senator for 30 years until his voluntary retirement in two thousand fucking two, died yesterday, presumably of the creeping dread that a Negro might soon be president. (There goes the neighborhood!)
Here's a question for the political junkies among you: are there any ("former") segregationists still holding elected positions?
Democratic Senator from West Virginia and former KKK "Exalted Cyclops," Robert Byrd.
An Associated Press article that ran in today's Times-Union included a comment from a current North Carolina official that dying on July 4th put Jesse in the same category as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (who also died on that day)!