Freedom of Speech or No?

This past week in class, we talked about some of the things that were in the first amendment. What stood out the most was, Freedom of Speech. There has been some discussion this past week, that we technically can't say what we want to say, even though the constitution says other wise. Why is this? some people may ask, well this is because you never know how someone will take what you say or it depends in the content you use it in. In class, we talked about the word 'nigger' vs 'nigga'. Now we went to this Speech and Debate event on Wednesday, and Dr. Smith brought up how he thought that he could've gotten fired for the conversation in class that day. Why? Because you never would've known how someone would've taken that conversation. That goes to show that we really aren't able to say what we want to say. On a college campus, that is probably one of the biggest things that I've seen lack, we are taught and we are told to speak up when we want to speak up and say what needs to be said, but we can't do that without being afraid what would happen to us, or how someone else would take it. It makes me wonder, what kind of things can we do in the world and as people to not make it like this anymore? Honestly, I don't think anyone knows the question to that, because no matter what you say or how you say it, there is always going to be one person that sees it differently or has a different option than you do. With that being said, Freedom of Speech under the first amendment could be specified better because to me we are never going to have a chance to say what we all actually want to say. There are barriers to speech and that's not ok in a life we live, especially in the kind of world we live in.