There is substantial evidence that proves that segregation has a negative effect on the way people think. Small children, who are segregated against, know that they are treated badly, and it allows them to think that they are inferior to others. During the Brown vs. Board of Education case, Kenneth Clark performed a doll test to prove the psychological damage in segregated children. “I presented these dolls to them and I asked them the following questions in the following order: ‘Show me the doll that you lik

Children in ghettos are at a disadvantage, not only because they do not have money, and are not healthy, but also because they could not get into the same colleges as children from wealthy families, which means they can not ensure their future families a better life. Children from wealthy families are able to go to the better elementary and high schools, leading to the better universities. A young student comments to Jonathan Kozol, “Now you hear them sayin’ on TV, ‘What’s the matter with these colored people? Don’t they care about their children’s education?’ But my mother did the best for me she knew.” (Life on the Mississippi) If minorities can never get a descent elementary education they can not go onto higher level education, and they can not be sure that their children will live a better life than they did. Parents want better lives for their children than what they had themselves, but in these situations it is not always possible. For this reason, the people in our country are responsible for helping the disadvantaged people get to where they need to be. In order to give children from disadvantaged minority backgrounds a better chance to get into college, many colleges use affirmative action. Some affirmative action programs allow people of minority races to gain more points upon acceptance because they are part of a race that is known for having hardships. Although children that had to face hardships while growing up do deserve to have some type of system to help them get on an equal level with advantaged children, it should not be based on race. The basis for getting help should be solely problems one had to overcome. There are many black people that are just as well off, if not more, than other white people are, but because they’re black they get an advantage. There are also white people that lived in ghettos and ha

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