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Mock Trial-Brown vs. Board of Education

 For this assignment we defended either Brown or the Board in the Brown vs. Board of Education Trial. I argued on behalf on the Board stating my argument for the greater good.





Throughout this nation's history African Americans have always been and will always be the minority. It is the year 1952 and African Americans still only make up 12 percent of our population. They will always feel like the minority no matter the situation they are placed in. To make them feel this way inside a school is just plain wrong. Schools are meant to be a place to educate the youth and nourish their minds. Now how would they feel if they looked around and no one in the room looked like them. Not students and not even teachers, the ones tasked with the ever so important duty of teaching them. Looking around they would feel out of place and this isn’t good for anyone. Today we are arguing for the right to segregate schools based on race. In doing this we have the greater good of the children in mind. People of color are more comfortable being around people of color just as white people are more comfortable being around white people. It’s just the way it is and to disrupt this and make everyone uncomfortable would just be wrong. We are a separate but equal country as we should be. Children should learn from people who look like them and look up to them as such. To integrate schools would rob both African American and white children of the right to a proper education and feeling comfortable in schools. There is no difference between the segregated schools except for the races that attend each, so in turn they should stay that way. There is no inferiority, we are simply different and to not acknowledge that would be detrimental to these children's developments. African American children are better off attending segregated schools as it is much better for them and their well being. Racial segregation in our countries education system is the answer to our problems and makes everyone more comfortable, if you can’t see that you don’t have the best interest of these children in mind. Thank you.



Sources:

“Brown v. Board of Education (1954).” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education.

“Brown v. Board of Education.” Legal Information Institute, Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483%26gt.

“History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-Enactment.” United States Courts, https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment.

History.com Editors. “Brown v. Board of Education.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka.




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