speech

Wright is and he isn't justified in refusing to say the speech. I wanted to agree with him because as valedictorian, he should have a right to be able to say his own speech. In modern days, he definitely would have been justified. However, it seemed as though his school and that time period was all about appearances, and it seemed as though the principal simply wanted to make him look good by writing the speech for him. the principal thought he was doing Richard a favor by writing the speech,and Richard was angry because he was tired of people trying to control his every action, and he would refuse to deliver a speech that he did not write because he did not want people to believe he was a way that was different from his true self. For this reason, Richard is justified. Though his speech may not have been as skillfully written, it was truer to the deliverer, and Richard knew that was important. Also, the principal mentioned something about how it was going to be delivered to both white and black people- and it is possible that it had an element of submissiveness that Richard did not want to label himself with.