legacy: something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the pastHate is not a word that I incorporate often in my vocabulary. I often use frustration, disbelief, disappointment, indifference, and anger. Each of those words could be used accurately in the description of my feelings for the late Jesse Helms.
A poster boy for the Religious Right, the Ku Klux Klan, and the plain ol' ignorant, Jesse somehow represented the state of North Carolina for five terms in the United States Senate. How the man was continually re-elected, I'll never fully understand. But as a native of North Carolina, I knew plenty of people who voted for and admired the man.
At the expense of avoiding the effects of one (or more) of the words used to describe my feeling for Jesse Helms, I'll let someone removed from our current political climate reflect on Jesse's life. Here's his obituary.
I'll leave with one thought.
It is of comfort knowing that the backwards politics of Jesse Helms will be nowhere near the election of 2008. I would hazard a guess that he may even turn over in his grave if Obama wins the Presidential election.
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