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people as the central players -- >> shush, dont tell them. >> well, cats out of the bag. >> its happening. >> i think it happened today. >> thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, wh...

the year was 1990, republican incumbent of north carolina senator jesse helms was polling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election, so home called in the political consultants who, in turn, helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back, and this is what they came up with, this ad. >> you needed that job, -- but they had to give it to a minority because of the racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt s...

acid rain. the community says its like someone dropped a toxic nuke on them. >> basically nuked a town with chemsz. so get a railroad open. i was kind of surprised that -- when they quickly told the people they can go back home. theres a lot of what-ifs and we are going to be looking at this thing five, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering gee, cancer clusters could pop up, well water could go bad. >> jesse: the state governments top doc came out today and said those cancer clu...

His yield diploma because apparently thats how much he thought it was worth. and clarence thomas is the guy reagan picked to head up the office in charge of taking on affirmative action related cases. with clarence thomas as eeoc chair -- and as head of the civil rights division, he sought to ban civil rights. -- that pattern clarence thomas a public admonishment from the naacp, but in the raid reagan justice department was a different story. it earned him praise. during a ceremony held in septe...

>> he had this feeling of being around these white students who he says questioned his presence at yale. how is it that you, not just you, clarence thomas, but all you guys here, is it because of merit or is it because of affirmative action? he said he would keep stacks of rejection letters he had gotten from law firms. even when he was like a supreme court justice he had letters just disorder lined him of this feeling of rejection by the elite law firms. >> clarence thomas blamed yale s affirma...

Administrations, lobbied to kill brake regulations. these guys are in charge. so wheres the e.p.a.? if they say my plastic straw is destroying this country, then they must be all over a cancer causing gas bomb in the ohio river valley, right? for the random toxic ash thats raining down in illinois? well, actually the e.p.a. administrator michael reagan no relation to ron is too zoned in on electric school busses to care about drinking water. he just announced a pledge to support electric school ...

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