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Uploaded by on Aug 12, 2007

Are offensive rap lyrics considered Freedom of Speech? I'm a history teacher, and this is a pre-lesson I use for my kids when teaching the Bill of Rights. Thanks to all the videos I used in making this!

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  • It's called "Looking Over A City" by Quannum Spectrum.

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  • This country is great because in America, citizens have the right to say whatever they wan't, period. I'ts not up for debate. For instance, I have the right to say that "I'm tired of pussy-ass, thin skinned, freedom haters, looking to sue and ban everything that gives them a butt hurt". God bless America. Why would anyone want to change that?

  • @buffsfan14 If you tell your history students that anything besides threatening harm to someone or slandering them isn't protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution you're deceiving them, and I don't want a bunch of people running around thinking that it's illegal to say controversial things because that will continue the decline of the Constitution in our society. The 1st Amendment is to protect controversial speech the popular speech doesn't require protection. Don't like, don't listen.

  • Yes, because the first amendment doesn't include obscenities.

  • @xcolompapi call it a brain-dead foolish urban culture, but it's still a culture.

  • @poopybutt554 and this is why some people think that blacks, hispanics and other minorities are uneducated scumbags...curse, it's life....steal, it's life....talk like a moron, it's life....get high/drug deal, it's life...."bust a cap" or carry a weapon because it makes you "more manly" ( A COWARD I would say...too chicken to use his fists), it's life...Put some Rims on it, yet the car itself's a piece of crap. I'm cool!!!. I am Hispanic, don't include me in that brain-dead foolish urban culture

  • my teacher showed this in american gov. funny stuff

  • there pissed about don imus? listen to most rap music. they say way worse about eachother. i dont agree with any of it. but the knife should cut both was. callin someone a racial word is racist whether if it come from someone who is black or white. in music or not in music. racial words isnt art

  • what is the song at 4:00?

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