&gt; Is this where we pretend that there&#x27;s no history of racial grievances at Yale (or Mizzou), and that history started afresh the minute before this confrontation? An honest accounting of what happened starts with the fact that there is a long history that had people simmering. Free speech is a wonderful principle, but it conflicts with making students, particularly minority students, not feel alienated.<p>For someone who drags up history, are you really going to pretend that Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly aren&#x27;t the reason we can protest in the first place?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;free-speech&#x2F;rights-protesters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;free-speech&#x2F;rights-protesters</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstamendmentcenter.org&#x2F;civil-rights-first-amendment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstamendmentcenter.org&#x2F;civil-rights-first-amend...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independe...</a><p>etc.