According to CNN, the soon-to-be-published book discusses Helms' friendship with Bono (!), among others, which changed his views about AIDS.
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"Until then," Helms writes, "it had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high risk populations. I was wrong."
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Remarkable. I guess no one is entirely beyond redemption.
On the other hand....
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Helms, 83, was one of the state's leading voices of segregation as a TV commentator in Raleigh in the 1960s and opposed nearly every civil rights bill while in the Senate. He has never retracted his views on race or said segregation was wrong.
In the book, Helms suggests he believed voluntary racial integration would come about without pressure from the federal government or from civil rights protests that he said sharpened racial antagonisms.
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I guess those uppity niggras should have just been more patient. They'd probably be allowed in most of our schools by now.
