The U.S. Constitution provides every American certain guaranteed freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. Expression or the right to free speech is one of those rights that is being targeted in some areas, including right here in some of our public and private universities, as a way to combat racism. Some people believe that universities should have the ability to regulate student’s free speech rights on certain types of dialog; racist speech. This is a very controversial topic that probably will never be agreed upon by the masses and will only cause more of a division between the people. However, racism is such an important topic, that maybe society should look at less typical methods to eliminate it, and maybe giving public and private universities the ability to limit their student’s free speech rights, could work? In the article “On Racist Speech” by Charles …show more content…
Whether society agrees or disagrees with what he has stated, no one can deny the fact that this topic needed to be acknowledged, like Lawrence has done, in the article “On Racist Speech”. It is imperative that the reader fully understand what's at stake. In our world, anything is possible, and by thinking this, it’s possible that society can eliminate racism and not need to restrict anyone’s free speech rights. If people can act more mature and be aware of what they say around others, then those actions will go a long way to resolve this problem and avoid an even bigger controversy. This article, nor is any other single article, going to solve this problem, it will take a lot more than just words in an article. However, Lawrence has come up with an incredibly thought-provoking opinion that has given his readers something to think about, to question their beliefs and to be try and be fair, he has successfully done that throughout the overall