My essay was On Racist Speech by Charles R. Lawrence III. As a person who had to deal with a lot of things dealing with racist speech, I can agree with most of the things Charles R. Lawrence III talks about in “On Racist Speech”. Lawrence talks about the First Amendment. Sating at such protection reinforces our society’s commitment to tolerance as a value and that, by protecting bad speech from government regulation, we will be forced to combat it as a community. This contention seems to be his thesis statement, because it is the s