Citizenship & Constitution Day 2006

Date and time

September 13, 2006

About this event

Wayne State University School of Law Dean, Dr. Frank Wu, will deliver the 2006 Constitution Day lecture.

The event will be held to commemorate Citizenship Day, which focuses on the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens both native-born and naturalized. The choice of September 17 for this observance commemorates the events of September 17, 1787, when the United States Constitution was signed by delegates from 12 states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. September 17 is also known as Constitution Day, which celebrates the United States’ Supreme Law of the Land as the oldest working Constitution in the world.

 

Location

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202

Speaker(s)

Dr. Frank Wu

Presentations and notes

Post-event

In an address heard by more than 100 audience members, Dr. Wu noted that problems of racial and ethnic bias go beyond black and white—indeed, the struggle for racial equality is global. Much bias is unconscious, with studies demonstrating that people automatically associate whiteness with goodness. Efforts to make diversity succeed will work better if we understand that diversity, like democracy, is a process, not an outcome. When diversity does succeed, every person can finally be the individual he or she is and not a stereotype.