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=The Segregation Problem=

Segregation has been a problem for hundreds of years. Throughout history people of the minority races have been segregated against. Even women have been separated from what a man’s rights are. Shouldn’t everyone no matter what race or sex you are have the given rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It all started in the United States back with the Native Americans and then later the African Americans. The segregation of African Americans was strong during the Jim Crow Laws. These laws completely separated African Americans from the other Americans. The laws made blacks only able to go to black schools, drink out of black drinking fountains, go in through a black entrance, use black bathrooms, not be allowed inside certain buildings, and other ridiculous things to separate them from the “white” person. The Jim Crow Laws no longer exist today, but segregation continues among minorities in this country as well as the rest of the world.

Today, segregation occurs in some schools. There are schools in Los Angeles where half the population is African American and the other half is Latino. The Latinos hang out with the Latinos and the Africans hang out with the Africans. There have been recordings of fights on the news between the two groups. These students should learn to live with one another and get along. Segregation needs to stop in our schools. It leads to violence and even death at times. The future generation is the future of this country and with them having the ideas of segregation will only affect the future generations to come. Something has to be done to control this problem in our schools. Pairing up students in schools will resolve the problem of segregation.

One may ask how could pairing students together help to stop the segregation of races in this country especially among the future generation. The students in schools such as some in Los Angeles need to learn that even though they are of different races they still are just like them and share common interests. It should start by pairing up a Latino student with an African American student. These students will spend sometime getting to know someone from a “different race.” At first there will be resistance to such an idea as pairing these almost two enemies together, but through time it will change. The students will realize that the other has the same interests as they do and the boundaries that separated them will begin to fall.

The students should spend a whole week, a month, or however long it takes to get to know the other person from a different race. There will be a counselor assigned to each pair of students that oversea everything to make sure there isn’t any violence going on, as well as, watching their progress. If the process of pairing up the students isn't working, the students will then swap families. Each student will live with the other's family for a whole weekend. This will help the students see how the other lives, letting them understand that the other's family has the same values as their own family. Once the counselor feels that the students have finally learned race doesn’t matter they will graduate from the program. These students will now get along with each other, and maybe even become longtime friends. Even if they end up not becoming friends they will still learn that everyone is the same no matter what race they are.

In conclusion, students will start breaking the barriers between each other that segregation has created. Lifelong friendships may even be formed through the process. These students are the future generation and they should be role models to those generations after them. The now generation of students will pass down the ideas against segregation to the future generations to follow. Segregation needs to stop today with the now generation of students. We can’t wait till there are more problems on top of it along with more deaths and violence. Pairing students up of different races in schools with segregation will help end the violence and the hate.

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