Racism is a Grown Up Disease

"Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it." This is the motto of Ruby Bridges foundation. Ruby Bridges was a civil rights activist and she had an early start to her journey. Bridges was born to a black family, during when the Board of Education started to desegregate schools.At the age of four Ruby Ruby moved to New Orleans with her parents in search of a better life for their expanding family. When it was time for her to start grade school, she got the chance to attend a white school. Ever since, students stopped attending her school, there were uprisings everyday outside her school, and she was transported to school with marshals. The motto of her foundation displays her life, and encourages us to stand up for what is right, and to take a stand against racism. Equality is worth being fought for.

Equality is important to fight for because without it a race shall always live in oppression and there would be no harmony in this world. Ruby Bridges had stood up for her race, she never gave way to the white people who would curse her everyday. She always stood up tall and ignored them. Everyday she would attend her lessons with Ms. Henry her teacher, even though she didn’t have any classmates or anyone to talk to. If one stands up like Ruby did, then it encourages and empowers everyone to do the same. Slowly as people watched this little girl being escorted everyday to her school with marshals, they started to encourage their children to enter white schools.

Its not only important to fight for equality so a race can live in peace, its also important to fight for equality so that the world can in live in harmony. Equality makes all human beings look at the other as one, and if an adult does then they will pass down this value generations and generations. Which supports Ruby Bridges motto "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it." If adults stop following the rules of discrimination then children will follow their paths which would create a sense of harmony. With peace between the different races on Earth everyone could have a chance to live in a utopian society.

Without equality, the world would deteriorate. This school wouldn’t even exist we wouldn’t know anything about each, we would never learn anything from each other. Ruby Bridges was the bridge between white and black education. She was an inspirational leader to not only the colored, but also to all the white people. They all started to realize what they never understood, and a little child like Ruby Bridges had to come around and set them right.