Edmundson, Nevin: Diversity

Until we, as people, learned to accept one another without first judging each other based on the color of ones skin, the tension between African-Americans and Caucasians were high due to the discrimination African-Americans had to endure.
        
   
White people were so determined to isolate the Blacks from their everyday life that they made race-based utilities such as: Segregated churches, bathrooms, schools, and many more aspects people of all colors used on a daily basis. For some reason, White people back then could not grasp the idea of an "equal world" and hated the Black people for wanting equality in their life and the generations to follow them.  Had it not been for people like Martin Luther King, the United States might never had moved past where were back then and could quite possibly still be stuck in the same place we were 60 years ago.

   
Alas, the world today isn't as Black and White as people would like for it to be. Even though many people look down on discrimination today, there are still a small number of people who would prefer that we lived in a world that was segregated just as it was back then. It is sad, because the children they raise will have the same ideals that they do, causing tension again and stirring trouble which should have been dead long ago. Sadly, discrimination will never completely go away. There will always be a small percentage who believe in a "superior race", but what they do not seem to realize is that there will never be a perfect utopia they are trying to build. Discrimination has ways of finding new people to single out. There would be a new group of people within the utopia that would be singled out, therefore destroying the utopia they wanted to build so badly.

   
Without realizing it, we as students discriminate based on race all the time. When you observe groups that are hanging out together, very seldom do you see a group with mixed races. Most of the time, it is always all Blacks or all Whites or a group composed entirely of another race. Granted, segregation is more subconscious now rather than intentional, but this ideal perfect utopia that everyone wants to achieve will never come to be because we, as living, breathing humans, are by no means perfect.