A NC professor who knows his first amendment right and is not afraid to use it.

Mike Adams, a professor at the University on North Carolina Wilmington, has been catching a lot of heat lately for his not so sweet twitter fingers. A lot of people have created petitions trying to get him removed as a faculty member. Mike has tweeted many racist and offensive comments which most people would expect the university to not tolerate but because it is his personal account, he is protected by first amendment rights. Some of the things he has tweeted - "This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six-seat tabletop. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go!"  he has also said that "women's studies" is a nonessential major. A lot of people feel being that he is a professor that he should be setting an example instead of being offensive in his tweets, even though they are personal. The university has responded by saying that Adams is protected by the first amendment, but the university is strongly against all of the comments of hatred made by Adams, and that the university is reviewing all of its options to address the matter.

 

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/first-amendment-north-carolina-wilmington-professor-tweets/3173332001/


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