Racism in America :: Racist Racial Discrimination

  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools, workforces, and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. â€Å"Nine out of ten people in society today believe that racism does not exist† (Hutchinson 5). It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago, but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about the instigations and solutions to this matter. Many people today live their lives oblivious to what is happening in the world around them, often trying to convince themselves that racism is not a problem in their world. Others know all about the problem, but don’t really realize that they themselves could possibly be adding to the problem by discriminating against someone else’s human rights, and at the same time going around saying how open minded they are. Many people also believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not, but that is not the case at all. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist but only learn to become one as they grow from childhood to adulthood.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  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. So what is it that makes us racist? More than likely it is fear of the unknown. In other words, it is lack of education. The only way to better this ignorance is to educate oneself. Since racism is learned and not genetic, it is something that needs to be taken care of in school starting form young children. In Brown v. Board of Education, the whole issue was that schools could be segregated only if they were â€Å"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. â€Å"Supreme Court Judge Earl Warren decided with the rest of the Supreme Court that segregated schools were in fact unlawful† (Hutchinson 10). Sch ools went through drastic changes but some schools didn’t like the idea. â€Å"Schools in Prince Edward County had closed due to the ruling and children in the county lost out on their education†(Hutchinson 10).