Twice the Protection

Some years back, while lost in a hardware chain store, I overheard a man say to another, “They need to get this n—-r music off the radio.”

He was talking about the in-store music system. At first I was embarrassed because like me, the guy is White, then I grew angry because the guy was White.

My anger was soon dispelled by a thankfulness as I came to realize that an aspect of the U.S. Constitution was in play – freedom of speech. Further, I learned that enshrined document is there to protect bigots like him from people like me.