Delgado 1
Alejandro Delgado
ENGL 1323
February 18, 2016
Response Paper
Charles R. Lawrence III, “On Racist Speech,” in Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau, ed.
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014. 8th. Ed. pp. 64-
68.
In “On Racist Speech,” Charles R. Lawrence III argues that the problem has been
“framed as one in which the liberty of free speech is in conflict with the elimination of racism”
(64). In defence of his claim Lawrence offers three main arguments: first, he says that
