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racism5 There is a great deal of racial tension in the United States today. Nine out of ten people in society believe that racism does exist and is something that affects millions of people everyday. There is not much arguing that can be 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 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. Another 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 at them, but disliking them anyway, not because of who they are, but what they are. Racism is cowardly. More importantly, racism is a weakness and an obvious sign of ignorance. The only way to battle this ignorance is to educate oneself. 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. The first thing that needs to be done is to up-date the text books and books in general that are read by the students starting from Kindergarten or first grade. The books need to be changed to include different cultures and their positive contributions to life, and not just focusing on one group. Curriculum change is also something that can do some benefit in understanding others. For example, instead of having black history one month, why can'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, and help break up stereotypes we have of others. Racism hit its high point in the 1960's and today it is still flooding society. Throughout schools in America, racism suffocates the classrooms, cafeterias, and hallways. There are many programs aimed at stopping racism but teachers and socialization programs cannot sway the racism out of the student’s minds. The children are not the problem. They are the products of what their parents created. From the day a child is born, it is learning from his or her parents. Instead of trying to cram a child's mind with anti-hate messages, teachers should attack the source of this problem, the household, before it is too late. It is not the teacher's fault that they cannot help their students avoid racism. Racism is everywhere and it begins in the home. If a child grows up in a racist household he or she, more than likely, will take the traits of his or her parents. If parents teach their children that their race is far superior and other races are evil, then that child will grow up believing his or her race is better than other races. Children don't know right from wrong. They do what their parents do and say. If a father tells his young child not to play with the black boy down the block because he says black people are bad then that child will believe his father. Children are fragile and extremely ignorant creatures. Children learn from their parents just like animals do in nature. For example, a baby bear is taught everything by its mother. It is taught how to hunt, where to seek shelter, how to defend itself, and how to act around other animals. If this baby bear is taught only to socialize with the brown bears and stay away from the black bears then that is what the baby bear is going to do. The same exact thing goes with humans. If parents teach their children to only socialize with white people then that is exactly what the child is going to do. 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, children are headed on a road to nowhere. Racism is not something that will just disappear. But it is possible to minimize it if we keep it under control. Yes we can still teach about unity and equality in our schools, but if we don't attack racism where it begins, then those school programs won't be of any value. Many children grow up in racist households. The problem of racism isn't a permanent problem. 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. Therefore we must attack racism from its source, the household, before it is too late. Bibliography:

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