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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. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added ....
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 qualifications. you will vote on this issue next tuesday, harvey gantt . that ad, with the white hands holding the rejection letter as the narrator intones you are a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with, can you steal the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed, he. term in the senate, 54 to 46%. that strategy worked. it worked well. mak ....
Right way. bradford reynolds called thomas s reappointment a proud moment. but thomas wasn t alone in the fight against affirmative action. also in reagan s justice department at the same time was a young man named john roberts. as a young white house lawyer, robert s justice department make arguments against any government use of race as a basis for hiring and diversifying institutions, and he carried those beliefs with him throughout his 30s when he became the deputy solicitor general and the george h. w. bush administration. and those ideas about color blindness became a key feature of john roberts legal career. and then a 1991, clarence thomas was sworn in as the supreme court justice. in 2005, it was john roberts turn, and together these two man, these two justices have made ending race consciousness in american law, whether in affirmative action around voting rights they have made that one of the central causes ....
Ford and his democrat rival, jimmy carter. now reagan didn t win the presidency. he didn t even make it past the primaries. but oh boy did he get his chance to chip away what he called the federal distortion of the principle of equal rights when he won the presidency in 1980. when reagan took office, he found the perfect person to chip away at affirmative action. he put that man, his perfect candidate, in charge of the equal employment opportunity commission, the eoc, the branch of the justice department is supposed to bring cases about workplace discrimination in hiring in harassment. the man s name was clarence thomas. he was a young black lawyer who graduated from yale law school just eight years before reagan omnipotent him. and this is how one of that man s classmates describes clarence thomas s feelings about affirmative action. clarence thomas, by the way, attended schools and universities that were specifically trying to increase the number minority students ....
Action. also in reagan s justice department at the same time was a young man named john roberts. as a young white house lawyer, robert s justice department make arguments against any government use of race as a basis for hiring and diversifying institutions, and he carried those beliefs with him throughout his 30s when he became the deputy solicitor general and the george h. w. bush administration. and those ideas about color blindness became a key feature of john roberts legal career. and then a 1991, clarence thomas was sworn in as the supreme court justice. in 2005, it was john roberts turn, and together these two man, these two justices have made ending race consciousness in american law, whether in affirmative action around voting rights they have made that one of the central causes of the court. the u.s. supreme court today ended its 2007 term with a history making ruling. the court made it much tougher for school districts to control the mix of children in american classrooms ....