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Summary Of On Racist Speech By Charles Lawrence

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According to Charles Lawrence in his article “On Racist Speech,” the First Amendment should not be all inclusive, especially in the case of hate speech (27-30). The first argument Lawrence brings up is the court case Brown vs. Board of education, which stated that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Lawrence sees the case in a different way than most, saying that idea of separate but equal was a violation of speech. The message that black school children received was that they were “unfit to go to school with white children” (28). Lawrence believes today we still fight these harmful messages, especially places such as college campuses where some students refuse to leave their dorm rooms to avoid these damaging comments (27-28). The article
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