Dear Disappointed,

Are you requesting hypocrisy instead of truth about openly held opinions on such emotional issues as politics? Strom Thurmond was a thorn in the side of many Americans, a boil on the ass of the senate, probably a migraine for politicians from other nations as well. For far too many years. We agonized as that old man was again and again able to sideline or dilute legislation that was important to moving beyond his racist, bigotted ways. We were glad he finally left the senate, and just for good measure, we're glad he quitted this earth. He should have taken Jessie Helms with him.

These kinds of politicians generate fervent hatred from those they choose to oppress. I posted a link some time ago (that no longer works--the site needs a password now) for a poem by Audre Lorde for Jesse Helms. It's very frank, quite graphic. But I post it with the reminder that people were just as angry at Thurmond:

Jessehelms

I am a Black woman
writing my way to the future
off a garbage scow knit from moral fibre
stuck together with jessehelms'
come where Art is a dirty word
scrawled on the wall
of Bilbo's memorial outhouse
and obscenity is catching
even I'd like to hear you scream
ream out your pussy
with my dildo called Nicaragua
ram Grenada up your fig hole
till Panama runs out of you
like Savimbi a-flame.

But you prefer to do it
on the senate floor
with a sackful of paper pricks
keeping time to the tune
of a 195 million dollar
military band
safe-sex dripping from your tongue
into avid senatorial ear-holes
later you'll get yours
behind the senate toilets
where they're waiting for you jessehelms
the white boys with their pendulous rules
bumping against the rear door of Europe

spread-eagled across the globe
their crystal balls poised over Africa
ass-up for old glory
your turn now jessehelms
come on      it's time
to lick the handwriting
off the walls.


Copyright © 1990 by Audre Lorde.

There are some politicians who are so abhorent to those who oppose them that it makes you wonder about the combined intelligence level of those who would (re)elect such individuals. (This is why I'm pretty certain the U.S. is okay--we did, after all ELECT Al Gore. The Supremes appointed the idiot who is in office enriching himself and his friends today).

SRS