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racial tension in the United States today. Nine out of ten people in society today believe
that racism does exist and is something that affects millions of people everyday. There is
not much arguing that can done with a statistic like that. What is it that causes so many
problems between each other? Is it that we are afraid of the unknown? Whatever the cause
is, we have been trying to fix the problem for many years now. Since racism is learned and
not genetic, it is something that needs to be taken care of in school starting from the
young children. In Brown v. Board of Education, the whole issue was that schools could
be segregated only if they were “equal? This was decided by the case of Plessy v
Ferguson. Schools in the South were not equal so Brown v. Board of Education was filed.
Supreme Court Judge Earl Warren decide with the rest of the Supreme Court that
segregated schools were in fact unlawful. Schools went through drastic changes but some
schools didn’t like the idea. Schools in Prince Edward County had closed due to the ruling
and children in the county lost out on their education. This had caused some racism to
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didn't mean any harm with these jokes so I let them pass without question. I was really getting aggravated with my
friend but on the other hand I was getting worried for him. ?This is an example of
how children back in those days had no real future except for the ones they saw in the
movies, which was like a dream world to them. First of all, there needs to be an agreement that a
problem does exist. Racism is like a cancer, if it is caught early enough it could be treated but if it is
caught too late it could be deadly. Instead of
trying to cram a child's mind with anti-hate messages, teachers should attack the source of
this problem, household, before it is too late. The same exact thing goes with humans. When I was a child growing up my best friend's father was extremely racist. Racism is not something that will just disappear. More importantly, racism is a
weakness and an obvious sign of ignorance. I asked my friend if he ever needed a liver transplant and that
black kid was the only possible donor, what would he do? He replied, "I would probably
die!" This was the straw that broke the camel's back because a friendship of sixteen years
ended at that moment. I had no idea that the worst was yet to
come. I was worried that he would
say the wrong thing at the wrong time and end up getting seriously hurt.
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