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people as the central players -- >> shush, don't tell them. >> well, cats out of the bag. >> it's 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, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. th...

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 says it is. he supports the racial quota law, making the color of your skin more important in your qu...

acid rain. the community says it's 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. there's 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 government's top doc came out today and said those cancer clusters no big deal. you have been exposed to these things your whole life. if you get cancernot be...

His yield diploma because apparently that's 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 september of 1985 to reappoint clarence thomas is the head of the eeoc thomas was like by attorney gener...

>> 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 affirmative action policies are 1970s for his own trouble finding a job after graduation. he even strike a...