(think: housing double its capacity)
“There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
— States News Service, 5/17/88
“What is really at stake is whether or not America will allow the cultural high ground in this nation to sink slowly into an abyss of slime to placate people who clearly seek or are willing to destroy the Judaic-Christian foundations of this republic.”
— 1990, on funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners or niggers.”
— North Carolina Progressive, February 6, 1985
“Let me adjust my hearing aid. It could not accommodate the decibels of the Senator from Massachusetts. I can’t match him in decibels or Jezebels, or anything else apparently.”
— 1993 Senate floor debate with Ted Kennedy
“All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction.”
— stated by Helms after Mexicans protested his visit to Mexico in 1986 to investigate allegations of political corruption.
“To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn’t have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing. 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.”
When a caller to CNN’s Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for ‘everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers,’ Helms’ response was to salute the camera
and say, ‘Well, thank you, I think.'”
— Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95
“If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.”
“The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves.”
University of North Carolina (UNC). “University of Negroes and Communists.”
what you got, hollywood?
from a friend:
so this guy i was hanging out with last night told me this story about his wife, who went to catholic high school where she had some sort of a gig working at the nunnery. one time, she decided to drop acid
before her shift, and was sweeping up when one of the nuns approached saying they needed help with something. the mother superior nun had died, as it turned out, and they wanted her to help wash the corpse. that sounds brutal already, but she went along with it until they had to roll over the body, at which point the dead nun sat up a little and gas escaped from her mouth as a dusty sort of scream/belch. the guy’s acid-addled wife-to-be ran away and locked herself in a broom closet until the next morning, and rightfully so.