Jesse “Helmes operated as though African-Americans didn’t vote”

“Hence the brilliant — and morally totally justified — anti Affirmative Action ‘Hands’ advertisement. And it is said that his lonely and valiant opposition to the Martin Luther King Holiday (which unquestionably came from the heart) was also popular at home. North Carolinians intuitively realized that elevating to Sainthood a black politician whose FBI files were so scandalous that they had to be sealed for half a century would be bad for them…”