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Perhaps some dancing in the street accompanied by firing guns into the air would accessorize the occasion nicely.
Other than that, for black folks, gay folks (and you assume I am neither?), or just plain people who deplored most of Mr. Helms' political career, perhaps some civil discourse about the remarkably awful effect of his behavior as a politician and how it reflected the pervasive ignorance of the people who repeatedly elected him -- and why this should have even been so -- might be a more constructive use of bandwith than simply behaving like the savage that Helms, himself, often was.
No one owes anyone a eulogy here; but we do owe each other at least the illusion of being better than the man we're discussing.
Rolling in our own waste hardly accomplishes that simple aim.
