Argumentative Essay On Racism In Schools

Racism is one of the world’s biggest problems still today. Many people do not understand that racism still exists in our schools, work forces, homes, etc. Racism may not be as bad as it once has been, because of the fact that slavery is now over, but it sure has not gone away. Racism still very much exists and it is time for people to start thinking about certain solutions to this matter. Many people argue that it just depends on whether a person was brought into the world as a racist or not. Which is not the case here. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist, but only learn to become one as they grow older. Although we are closer than ever before, causes such as mainstream, government, and racism groups are road bumps we need to conquer

In the 1800 and 1900’s, racism was a big thing going on. Blacks were to seem as if they were not equal to whites. White men and women made it clear that they thought they were above blacks, having priorities such as getting to sit in the front of the bus, having their own private bathrooms, water fountains, better schools, houses and even jobs. But whites would try to excuse any act of being a racist by "only having good faith effort to equalize the two educational systems"(Brown v Board of Education). In the Plessy v Ferguson case, Homer Plessy attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. Yet, Homer could easily pass as white due to the color of his skin, he due to his ethnicity, he still had to sit in the "colored" area of the train. But after refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated “separate but equal” railroad accommodations. He took it to court, and won and the “separate but equal” doctrine was made. Under the doctrine, government was allowed to require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be separated along racial lines, provided that the quality of each group's public facility was