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 Prince Edward County. The most effective solution for solving the racial tension
problem is to change the curriculum, text books, and to keep up, if not increase, diversity
training in the work force today. First of all, there needs to be an agreement that a
problem does exist. It is after all evident through racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan,
Neo-Nazis, and Skinheads. These are hate groups that threaten and dislike people, not for
the content of their character, but the color of their skin or what country they are from.
although these are extremes when it comes to racism, it is something that affects so many
people everyday in the United States. What is racism real...