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Discrimination is not commendable and it is not nice. Yet it is true that it still happens although it is against the law to let racial issues decide where one should live, where one should work, and where one should go to school. The Civil Rights law states this clearly. Were it not for this one fact, we would not be enjoying the excellent race relations we are having today. That is a hard fact to live with, but it is a true one. And it is an honest one.

In this very same law rights are given to women, people of other nationalities and of varying religious preference. It states that none of the aforementioned should be a deterrent to a job if the applicant is qualified. Equal pay for equal work is what that law is all about.

Likewise Title V11 of this act protects those who would otherwise be treated less than equal in the work environment. All the prerequisites for fairness are spelled out in this document and at times it has been necessary to take matters to court to assure the law rules.

Of course the world being what it is, equality is more a dream than a reality for race related reality but where would we be without it? The one blaring fact of a whole group of people being enslaved to another group is still too fresh in our memory to forget.

Some facts are not controlled by laws, however: In the matter of diseases that affect people of one race more so than another, there is no law against it. It just so happens there are chemical and physical differences that makes some diseases more prevalent among one race than another.

What can be controlled by strict regulations is harassment in the work place and offensive jokes and slurs that directly relates to the differences between people. In other words, if a person feels threatened by the verbal insinuations of others, or if he feels endangered by insisting on working or sending his children to certain schools, then this matter can be taken to court.

Busing children to school is one way of assuring equality among minority and racial groups. It has done much to improve conditions of awareness among black and white children growing up. It is hard to be prejudiced against the boy who sits in front of you at school who seems to have all the answers. The skin color does not matter. This is the best way of doing away with prejudice.

Although prejudice will always be with us in some form since the people that make up a society is not perfect, progress is being made in seeing that people are treated as humanely as possible.