Freedom Of Speech In African American History

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A lot of incidents being happening in the African American histories, and it will still happens because other minorities don’t know their histories and even though if they did, they still doing basically the same thing. If minorities were to be part of the “conversation” about race were to give more coverage in mainstream press it will be a great cause of it. People would be fighting against each other of what their belief. We would not be able to get the right answer or the true story behind anything. I’m in between, I feel like if someone knows what they talking about then let them talk and give their own speech. In our Amendments of the Constitution, the first amendment was the Freedom of Speech. People should have their voice heard but at the same time if that individual don’t know what they saying, they should not speak.
To my belief, when only majorities of white people talk about racism or tell stories about racism, they give a lot of evidence based on what they experience but not the other side point
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She had a lot of anger that was lock inside of her that when her mother died she send her sons to live in foster house. David Margolick says “She threaten them in front of the caseworker.”(186) Imagine if Elizabeth were to talk about it in her own stories, Do you think she’ll lied about certain things? How would she describe the incident that occurred in the 1957? Would she remember Hazel that day? Though David Margolick had interviewed Elizabeth, she probably had left some other incidents that happen and that were related to. But at the same time she did not want mainstream to know. At the end, Elizabeth & Hazel’s story was told by a white

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