Attack the Source, there really is no way of getting around it. There is a great deal of 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 occur in
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Racism is everywhere and it begins in the home. ” 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. Children are fragile and extremely ignorant creatures. For example, instead of having black history one month, why c!
an't every month have black history in it? Students could learn about black history all year around, and not just condensed into one month. My parents taught me not to judge people by their skin. In other words, it is a lack of education. As time progressed I noticed that the beliefs of my friend's father stuck in my friend's head. The first thing that needs to be done is to up-date the textbooks and books in general that are read by the students starting from Kindergarten or first grade. They do what their parents do and say!
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. That is why the key to solving the problem is not Affirmative Action, or bussing kids around the different schools, but instead it is education and starts with the young generation. Racism is not something that will just disappear. The same exact thing goes with humans. This is something that would along with educating ourselves, help break up stereotypes we have of others.
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