Racism

Although many do not believe so, racism does still exist today. In places like schools especially, racism is still present. Some statistics show that schools with poverty levels of more than 40% are schools containing the majority of their students to be colored people. These schools are also now hiring teachers with less experience and fewer academic credits. This issue is a major form of racism in todays society.
In Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya also suffers through the topic of racism. Growing up as a negro girl in a town filled with whites and blacks, she feels unwanted and out of place. Maya always wishes that she were a beautiful white girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes. This just shows that she didn't want to be that person for no reason, but because others had made her feel that way. Maya grew up watching whites treat her and her family differently. One example of this is a white girl came up to her grandmother and flashed her. Although her grandmother was an elder, it didn't matter because the girl was white and her grandmother wasn't.
Teenagers today should definitely be informed on the issue of racism today. In the newspaper or online articles, teenagers can just search for the word racism and many articles appear. In an article titled "Tackling Racism, Starting Locally," from the New York Times, it mentions a strong situation dealing with racism that affects everyone. It talked about how students in countries like Suffolk and Nassau are ranked the most segregated communities in the world. The students score lower on all tests and the district has very low percentages of students that move on in education and go to college. The white districts percentages are much higher. This just shows that it is not just coincidental, it has to deal with race and still exists in todays world.

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