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Ep. 186 Killer Mike on free speech, racial justice, and Rap on Trial

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

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The Government Recognized What God Had Already Done

On the one year anniversary of his death, Frederick Douglass attempted to have an anti-slavery and abolitionist rally in Boston. A mob came, and the government did nothing to stop them from breaking that up. And the government simply recognized what God had already done. So I need us here to know tonight that there is no grand final winning of freedom of speech. There's no end of the race where we all hold up trophies. It is a constant and protracted struggle to make sure the rights to become a more perfect union are always driven for.

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