As Asheville civil rights attorney Ruben J. Dailey campaigned for City Council in 1969, he regularly told voters he was not seeking office to represent a single group.
“I am running on a progressive record of service to all the people of Asheville,” he said at a candidates forum, according to an April 30 story in the Asheville Citizen-Times. “All of the poor people — black or white — need to be motivated and encouraged.”
But he also said, in a separate interview with the newspaper: “There are problems peculiar to the Negro community that I am aware of, and I will serve their interests as well as those of all other citizens.”…