and not only was thurgood an organizer, so was charlie houston. any good lawyer who has litigated cases of this type knows the importance of organizing and getting the people behind it, and the importance of public opinion and everything else in the case. you can't read the biography of charlie houston without reading the details of how he understood how to organizehe public to get ople interested in an issue, and also to promote and back at the litigation while he was doing it. but whatever they wanted to say was, as for the book and the work that you do on incarceration, it is my impression that from traveling around and talking to people, and from reading books and articles, teaching thi stuff for years, that a lot of african-americans, especially thos of us who call ourselves middle-class, and educated, still believe, don't believe that most of the people who are in jail are therefore, they shouldn't be there, that they don't really understand that most of it is about the drug problems. now it is in some ways connected to the. and that the rac

and not only was thurgood an organizer, so was charlie houston. litigated cases of this type knows the imptance of organizing and getting the people behind it, and the importance of public opinion and everything else in the case. you can't read the biography of charlie houston without reading the details o how he understood how to organize the public to get people interested in an issue, and also to prote and back at the litigation while he was doing it. but whatever they wanted to say was, as for the book and the work that you do on incarceration, it is my impression that from traveling around and talking to people, and from reading books and articles, teaching this stuff for years, that a lot of african-americans, especially those of us who call ourselves middle-class, and educated, still believe, don believe that most of the people who are in jail are therefore, they shouldn't be there, that they don't really understand that most of it is about the drug problems. now it is in some ways connected to the. and that the racial profiling d all the o

and not only was thurgood an organizer, so was charlie houston. any good lawyer who has litigated cases of this type knows the importance of organizing and getting the people behind it, and the importance of public opinion and everything else in the case. you can't read the biography of charlie houston without reading the details of how he understood how to organize the public to get people interested in an issue, and also to promote and back at the litigation while he was doing it. but whatever they wanted to say was, as for the book and the work that you do on incarceration, it is my impression that from traveling around and talking to people, and from reading books and articles, teaching this stuff for years, that a lot of african-americans, especially those of us who call ourselves middle-class, and educated, still believe, don't believe that most of the people who are in jail are therefore, they shouldn't be there, that they don't really understand that most of it is about the drug problems. now it is in some ways connected to the. and that t

the lawyers like bill coalman and litigators and charlie houston and the civil rights lawyers who triedo use the 14th amendment to increase opportunity and to get equal justice for african-americans and were successful in instances are under attack in the history profession by some historians, not kenneth, he's not one of them. i don't know, are you one? no. who claimed they didn't do the right thing. they never should have brought brown in the first place because it was about education and helping the elites and teachers and didn't help working folks, which we know is not true because the policemen and firemen. theylso used the best legal strategy that would win at the time and that's by coming up with what you think can win at the time you use it and what the constituents want. keeping that in mind, here we are today. we have a lot of people talkin about using the 14th amendment for things and birthright citizenship and should it be somehow modified because undocumented or illegal workers are people coming to the country or they somebody said, some right wonk come, mothers come and ha