please join us in our next segment with paul cobb. ♪ ♪ >>> when i introduced paul cobb earlier i wasy he was a member of the city council when he was a member of the school board, but he reminded me he did run for city council back in 1971, way before anyone, and almost won. tell us about that back then. >> well, i ran -- it was mainly an educational campaign. i ran to expose the district elections where you -- even though you run from a district you had to be voted on citywide. >> i see. >> even though i won the district in which i wanted to represent, i lost citywide even though i had 70% plus of the district -- >> the district where you were. >> yeah. >> what were some of the issues you wanted to expose at that time? >> the issues the same as they are today. adequate housing, better recognition of our schools, of jobs, getting more jobs for minorities and contracts for minority contractors. so the issues of equity and fairness stream through every single strata of the society. and those issues remain today. today. >> there is an inability for african american men to get jobs, the