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......
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