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The contest between Republican Jesse Helms and his black Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt attracted more national attention than any other Senate election because it posed a primal question: Was Helms' brand of racial politics finally obsolete? In electing Helms to a fourth term last week, North Carolina gave a clear...
But when Congress finally adjourned, Helms roared back to the state for 10 give-'em-hell days. He charged Gantt with betraying the black community by selling his stake in a TV station, an interest that had been acquired cheaply under a minority-business program. Next came an ad showing...
The 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...
Yet Jesse Helms' moral outrage that blacks should be getting rich off an outrageous giveaway from the Federal Government is oddly narrow. After all, long before it adopted minority preferences, the FCC was handing out valuable licenses practically for free on other, equally bogus criteria. After more than a half...
Of course it is a more ambitious ideal, possibly harder to achieve politically than simple reverse discrimination. It steps directly on more powerful toes. But it cannot be faulted by conservatives as social engineering, as interference with free lives and free markets. Broadcasting and medicine are just two areas where...