by Steven J. Heyman

About the author: Steven J. Heyman, an associate professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, is the editor of the two-volume anthology, Hate Speech and the Constitution.

Five high school seniors in Greenwich, Connecticut, insert a coded message into their class yearbook reading “Kill All Niggers.”

Berating a worker, an employer repeatedly calls him a “nigger” and tells him that “all you niggers are alike.” When the employee objects to the racial slurs and says that he wants to be treated “like a human being,” the employer responds, “You’re not a human being, you’re a nigger.”

With a Nazi banner behind him, and surrounded by armed security guards wearing swastikas and SS emblems, the leader of the Aryan...