“It is true that the chief interest of the people in giving permanence and security to citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment was the desire to protect Negroes.”
LACK, J., Opinion of the Court
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
387 U.S. 253
Afroyim v. Rusk
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0387_0253_ZO.html
The 14th has been the most ill applied Amendment ever.