Racism
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
ou talking to him?" That might sound like an innocent question, but if you knew my friend, you knew what he meant. This was the beginning of the end. I was really getting aggravated with my friend but on the other hand I was getting worried for him. I was worried that he would say the wrong thing at the wrong time and end up getting seriously hurt. Another time, we were walking down the street and a black kid, no less than ten years old walked by, and my friend said, " I bet that nigger stole that jacket!" My mouth dropped. I couldn't believe his latest ignorant remark. 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. Parents are the biggest influence in a child's life. Children look to their parents for support and guidance. Without the proper support and guidance,! Prince Edward County. The most effective solution for solving the racial tension problem is to change the curriculum, textbooks, 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 really? Racism is not knowing anything about someone when you look a! 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. This goes the same for other cultures also. This is something that would along with educating ourselves, help break up stereotypes we have of others. In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", the narrator talks about students' future with the education system as it is. The narrator says, "All they really knew were two darkness, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once mo
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Approximate Word count = 1600
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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