But did she cry?
May 14, 2009 12:33 AM | 0

 

You already knew that Jesse Helms and Orrin Hatch are snarling shitbags, right? Well, take a look at this little tidbit that I learned as I was reading about the dreadful origins of the song "Dixie":

In a widely publicized and controversial incident, Senator Jesse Helms deeply offended Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the time.^{[106][107][108][109][110]} Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, which opponents saw as an overt symbol of racism - both for the history of racial slavery in the United States and for establishment of Jim Crow laws, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator.^[110] Helms turned to his friend, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries."^[111] He then proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during slavery to Moseley Braun.^[112][113] Helms later blocked Moseley Braun's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to New Zealand.^[110] Braun served in New Zealand as US ambassador from 1999 to 2001.

Ugh. Good riddance to Jesse Helms. It's a shame he didn't die at the end of a rope.