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=Segregation Today=

Segregation may seem like a thing in the past to some people, but it is still a problem today. It still occurs in the United States. It helped when the Jim Crow Laws were ended in 1965, but it still occurs among minorities in this country. Segregation even occurs in some of this country’s schools. Rivals and tensions have helped cause the separation between students. A lot of the segregation deals with racial issues and stereotypes.

In the year of 2005, the Los Angeles School District encountered a problem with their students. A rumor was going around that Mexican gangs were going to shoot Africans Americans at the schools on Cinco de Mayo of that year. Just about every African American student didn’t go to school that day. No one was able to find out where that rumor started. Since then, a lot of tensions and fights have started between the Latinos and the African Americans. “A series of fights had erupted between black and Latino youths in high schools in April, including melees involving as many as 100 students at Jefferson, Fairfax, and Jordan high schools, and threat and fear were in the air,” (Alexander and Murray). The segregation between students still continues in schools.

Twain expresses the view of the segregation between African Americans and whites in the United States a little after the Civil War. The segregation in Los Angeles schools is between two minority groups. Both of these groups have been though some of the same challenges in the past, but now they are against each other. This segregation between students is happening after the Jim Crow Laws have ended. Even though it seems as if segregation is a thing in the past, it is still occurring today, even among the future generations.



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