For anybody who’s ever taught in a classroom, the idea is to get the conversation flowing, and you can’t do that if you’re preoccupied with which side of the line are you going to be on, that is a chilling effect, and that is every bit as offensive to the First Amendment as a direct ban.

Cheryl Harris

Cheryl I. Harris is a critical race theorist and professor of civil rights and civil liberties at the UCLA School of Law.Harris is widely known for "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review. In the paper, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society.Harris is the mother of American rapper, songwriter, and record producer Earl Sweatshirt.

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