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...Jesse Helms (R-S.C.) won his re-election bid with a commercial that depicted the hands of a white man crumpling a job rejection letter. The not-so-subtle implication is that Harvey Gantt, Helms's Black challenger, would destroy the hopes of the honest white man by giving jobs to less-qualified minorities...
Sleaziest Election Campaign When Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina faced a stiff challenge from black Democrat Harvey Gantt, he bashed gays, then feminists, linking Gantt to their causes. Finally, he turned to race baiting, airing a TV spot that depicted white workers' frustration at racial quotas. Helms...
...controversy seeped into the midterm election campaign. In North Carolina, Republican Senator Jesse Helms blatantly played on the insecurity of white voters fearful of unemployment in recessionary times. He won re-election against a strong challenge from black candidate Harvey Gantt...
...biggest disappointment for Democrats in last week's generally pleasing election results was Harvey Gantt's loss to Jesse Helms in the North Carolina Senate race. Gantt apparently was leading until near the end, when Helms unleashed TV ads focusing on affirmative action in general and Gantt's own profit from a television-station deal in particular. No doubt these ads were intended in part to promote simple racism against Gantt, who is black, and no doubt they succeeded. But genuine resentment against racial favoritism is also something the Democrats are going to have to come to terms with...
...forms of official racial preference, the one that helped make Harvey Gantt a wealthy man is the least defensible. In awarding valuable broadcast licenses, the Federal Communications Commission gives extra points for minority ownership and civic involvement. Gantt, then mayor of Charlotte, N.C., was part of a group that snared a franchise in 1985 and sold it almost immediately to a white media company. (In a crowning idiocy, the FCC -- having deliberated exquisitely, often for years, over the relative worthiness of contenders for a license -- places virtually no restrictions on how soon or to whom or for how much...