schmoke comment. we'll go to another question and let members of congress have a few closing remarks. >> mayor, thank you for your writings. i want to say that. >> because i can't speak for the caucus i would like if you have your suit, a draft of it electronically, to see, we have a civil rights law clinic at the law school if that's the type of matter we could give you some suppor on. >> thank you. yes? >> my name is qwasi and for number of years this addressing can hunting, what people call racial profiling. this issue about t 14th amendment. i like the panel to respond in this. because we were enslaved we weren't, we weren't, we weren't looking to become citizens. we were looking to become free. become liberated. after the war they enacted the 14th amendment. they didn't consult with us and it says, makes us citizens and says we're entitled to certain rights and privileges and then we had the black codes and all that other stuff. we're still dealing with that. the 14th amendment says that we're ci

schmoke comment. we'll go to another question and let members of congress have a few closing remarks. >> mayor, thank you for your writings. i want to say that. >> because i can't speak for the caucus i would like if you have your suit, a draft of it electronically, to see, we have a civil rights law clinic at the law school if that's the type of matter we could give you some support on. >> thank you. yes? >> my name is qwasi and for number of years this addressing can hunting, what people call racial profiling. this issue about the 14th amendment. i like the panel to respond in this. because we were enslaved we weren't, we weren't, we weren't looking to become citizens. we were looking to become free. become liberated. after the war they enacted the 14th amendment. they didn't consult with us and it says, makes us citizens and says we're entitled to certain rights and privileges and then we had the black codes and all that other stuff. we're still dealing with that. the 14th amendment says that we're

[applause] >> dean schmoke?ant to go back to something that secretary coleman said about, i asked lee agree with everything that professor alexander commented on. you know, i spent a fair amount of time when i was mayor trying to change drug policy to more humane -- >> and would not retreat. >> let me just say, the one thing i learned from my experience though in dealing with trying tomake sure that people believe that the war on drugs should be a public health war rather than a criminal justice war, is hat when you go before voters and explain the actual impacts, and give alternatives, the people often, even if they disagreed, they respect you. i was reelected twice after being skewered by folks were saying that we should, you know, move towards a more public health model. but i want to get, we can talk out that although more but i want to emphasize something that the secretary talked about earlier regarding the 14th amendment. and he talked about the fact that marshall and hasty and bob carter and judge carter

schmoke comment. we'll go to another question and t members of congress have a few closing remarks. >> mayor, thank you forour writings. i want to say that. >> because i can't speak for the caucus i would like if you have your suit, a draft of it electronically, to see, we have a civil rights law clinic at the law school if that's the type of matter we could give you some support on. >> thank you. yes? >> my name is qwasi and for number of years this addressing can hunting, what people call racial profiling. this issue about the 14th amendment. i like the panel to respond in this because we were enslaved we weren't, we weren't, we weren't looking to become citizens. we were looking to become free. become liberated. after the war they enacted the 14th amendment. they didn't consult with us and it says, makes us citizens and says we're entitled to certain rights and privileges and then we had the black codes and all that other stuff. we're still dealing with that. the 14th amendment says that we're citi

mack and mayor deen schmoke, you are all legal lions in o community. mr.ack, how would you frame the modern day 14th amendment and its usefulness to pursuing equality in the united states, and what's at play here for you? >> pardon me, sorry. i think that unfortunately everything's in play. as you mentioned earlier, there's a debate now about whether or not the 14th amendment means what it appears to say which is that all persons born and naturalized in the unitedtates and jurisdictions and therefore a citizens. there's a debate whether being born here makes you a citizen. it's surprising that that's on the table. civil rights lawyers, actually civil rights lyers in the e before brown actually encouldn'terred that -- encountered that same issue. in 1943 there's a case called reagan vs. king in california and it had to do with a challengeto japanese voters in san fransisco and the ability to vote for japanese citizens, children of jtses who lived in the united states all their lives was challenged in the courts, went up to the 9th circuit, and the con ting