![]() ![]() Let's just file this away in the Jesse Helms garbage can. If there were ever two polar opposites in Raleigh it was Jesse Helms and Clarence Lightner.įor those old enough to have known my father know that he was principled, honest, beyond approach, unbought and unbossed. SYNOPSIS Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this compelling documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land. ![]() ![]() Clarence Lightner, under any circumstances would have never. Period.įor the FBI or anyone to say that my father was offered or accepted money to try and influence Black citizens not to vote, and that this would benefit Senator Helms' reelection is on it's face ridiculous and absurd to the furthest degree possible. My Daddy, like most African Americans did not like or agree with anything Jesse Helms stood for. I can say, without any reservation or equivocation whatsoever that my Dad would never do anything to suppress anyone from voting. His whole life was spent working to get Black citizens to exercise their right to vote. ![]() even from the grave.įirst, Mayor Clarence Lightner was the most loyal Democrat you could find anywhere in North Carolina. Bruce Lightner released the following statement about Jesse Helms' FBI file:Īs a rule, I generally do not have anything to say about dead people but it seems as if 'Ol Jess is effecting us. ![]()
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