@wanderfound said that black people didn’t enjoy the same “rights” as white people, not that they didn’t enjoy the same physical capacity as white people. There was never a question of what utterances people can emit from their mouths. The point is that hateful white people seem to enjoy “free speech” far more than any other group. America is willing to bend over backwards to ensure it is not blocking their free speech.
When Desiree Fairooz laughed during Jeff Session’s confirmation (or whatever it was) they arrested her and convicted her. It wasn’t because she expressed herself, of course, it was because she disrupted the hearing. Rakem Balogun was arrest for a Facebook post protesting police brutality because they identified him as a “black identity extremist.” They put him prison for 5 months while trying to come up with a reason to prosecute him and then didn’t prosecute him.
The thing in America is that when someone’s right to speak is taken away it’s never the speech, it’s always something else. But America silences people regularly.
I’m not saying two wrongs make a right and they should round up KKK members the way they round up black people with facebook accounts. I’m saying that free speech in America is bullshit. Not all citizens rights are treated the same.
