Chalk Talk

The University of Illinois has recently become under the spotlight for an incident regarding a message written on a sidewalk in front of a Hispanic education building. The message that was written in chalk said, "Build the Wall." Obviously the message was written in reference to presidential candidates speech where he said he would build a wall to keep the Mexicans out and in return the Mexicans would pay for it to keep out the drug runners, rapists and murderers, again this is all based off of Donald Trump's opinion and has no backing in any way. Due to the fact that this message was written in front of a Hispanic education building it is seemed as a hate crime towards the Hispanic people attending the University of Illinois. Following this incident, there was another message written in chalk on a sidewalk on campus that stated "They have to go back #Trump." The administration is fed up with these racist crimes on campus. They do not have proof a student wrote this but they belief it is very possible. The university blames these incidents on freedom of speech and the people that abuse that freedom given in the first amendment. The university doesn't want to suppress freedom of speech or their student’s opinions, but they say there are many other ways that they can voice their opinions that won’t offend numerous people through ignorant claims. The students have the resources and the class where they can have the appropriate times to be educated and then make claims about immigration reform.

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