on this issue. i would like to hear more. so would i. and i tell you, this was a space we were once very comfortable in. and it was not foreign to us as a party, a national party, to speak about injustices hike this. now we ve moved away and we re afraid of it. so i m hoping you see a rand paul working with senate democrats on minimum sentencing legislation, that s a step in the right direction. so all those folks out there looking at the fergusons and new york and saying well you know they re different but. there is no but here. they re not even different. it is part of the same narrative we ve seen played out in this country. race is still an issue. obama s election didn t change it. a future black president won t change it. we have to deal with the black and white of america before we deal with the red, white and blue. this last year it has been brought to the surface. you look at the people marching