Modern Segregation

Nowadays, segregation in America isn’t as popular as it once was during the Jim Crow Era, on the other hand, there are dramatic changes in segregation between the past and the present . Today, Public facilities are no longer separating people by race; segregation is usually economically wise, and children are allowed to attend schools of their will as long as they have the ability, or the money. A superior, or inferior race no longer exist in this nation. But is segregation really over, as President Kennedy declared some fifty years ago?

NO! Segregation is not over; it still exists in places throughout the United States, but in different ways. There are people, either consciously or subconsciously separating themselves from others that are different. For example, black and white students that attend the same school sit at different tables at lunch, or tend to stick with what is familiar with them and that is often time their color. It is sad to even say that the Civil Rights Activist fought for integration, and it was their top priority for equality, but people are still separating themselves because of some insecurities.

I believe the main reason of why some people think they’re worse than others is from the cause of stereotypes, such as people of different race possess different brains! These kinds of beliefs has been long since proved to be wrong by scientist, though a lot of people still choose to believe it. I think they are doing this because they want excuses for not trying. In my school, when teachers ask some students a question, they simply reply “I don’t know? If you want to know why, then it is because that I am (this race), and so I am SUPPOSED to be stupid!”
This is the effect of modern segregation, the impact it had on kids’ brain can change their life, tremendously!

-Kevin
Revised by Amanda