caller: we completed some work at the booker t. washington middle school in baltimore, maryland. while we were there, these middle schools would walk up and they would be smoking marijuana. the security guard was witnessed smoking dope with these children, right in front of the school, the school entry. i do not have a comment about the school laws, but these children have a hard enough time going to make it anyway, and smoking dope right in front of the school is certainly not going to enhance their chances to be successful members of society. guest: well, i agree. i do not think anyone is arguing that doing drugs on school grounds should not be prosecuted. what advocates are saying is that the zones are too wide and the penalties apply in far too many cases that there should be normal or mitigated circumstances. like i said, these cases are exceedingly rare, yet these laws wrapped up an enormous amount of criminal offenders and slapped them with higher charges. the review i cited earlier said that 80% of drug cases in school zones almost never involved minors. i think that's th

it is a massive school building program developed by booker t. washington at tuskegee university funded by philanthropist rosenwald who is the president of sears and roebuck. they constructed 5000 schools and 15 southern states. they are the physical manifestation and response to a social movement, crisis of a social movement, in black education here during the process i learned my mom and dad went to rosenwald schools and i had a connection to the past like never before. i remember walking into a school building and i had the multi sensory experience. there was a transcendent quality about historic preservation. that is what i want to talk to you about. ournational trust, signature program is called national tr treasures. trust partners with community and property owners for 2-5 years to remove an impending threat to a nationally significant building and identify solutions for the preservation of those places. i want to give you a quick overview. in patterson, new jersey, this is the home field of larry dauphine who integrated after jackie robinson. i'm pr

it is a massive school building program developed by booker t. washington at tuskegee university and funded by philanthropist julius rosenwald who was at that time the president of sears and roebuck. they constructed 5000 schools in 15 southern states. they are literally the physical manifestation and response to a social movement, crisis of a social movement, in black education. during the process, i learned my mom and dad went to rosenwald schools and i had a connection to the past like never before. i remember walking into a school building and i had the multi sensory experience. i can see and touch and smell and hear the creaking floorboards. i started to realize there was a transcendent quality about historic preservation. that is what i want to talk to you about today. the national trust, our signature program is called national treasures. it is about six years in the making. it is where the national trust partners with community and property owners for generally between two to five years to remove an impending threat to a nationally significant build

it is a massive school building program developed by booker t. washington at tuskegee university funded by philanthropist rosenwald who is the president of sears and roebuck. they constructed 5000 schools and 15 southern states. they are the physical manifestation and response to a social movement, crisis of a social movement, in black education here during the process i learned my mom and dad went to rosenwald schools and i had a connection to the past like never before. i remember walking into a school building and i had the multi sensory experience. there was a transcendent quality about historic preservation. that is what i want to talk to you about. ournational trust, signature program is called national tr treasures. trust partners with community and property owners for 2-5 years to remove an impending threat to a nationally significant building and identify solutions for the preservation of those places. i want to give you a quick overview. in patterson, new jersey, this is the home field of larry dauphine who integrated after jackie robinson. i'm pr

i think frederick douglass and booker t. washington understood this in terms of what i call the occupational shift. that has not occurred within the black community. part of it is not a demonization , but it is a clear lack of interest. i don't think it has anything to do with social racism. howard: that is a very powerful reply. i suspect your professor would want to take strong issue with that. soviet. -- so be it. ok, other questions. yes, in the back. phyllis to you are -- tell us who you are. >> jesse from nashville, tennessee. many of you probably refer to this as segregation, but i tend to refer to it as educational redlining that i went through during my formative years in tennessee. what i mean by that is that as you grew through the educational system, i found it interesting that the previous panel did not address the competitiveness of america based on the need for the transformation of our educational system. what i experienced during that time was the redlining that was taking place was that we were trained to go after get