Title Nine and the Role of Education in Eliminating Racism

While discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, sex, race and national origin in areas of employment and public areas was already outlawed by the Civil Rights Act, there was no real law that prohibited gender discrimination in educational programs and there were widespread cases of gender discrimination in employment in colleges as well as collegiate athletics (Jennings, 1). Education is key to putting an end to racism and any other form of discrimination in the society. One of the main benefits of education is that it makes us to accept people that are different from us. In so doing, we also learn to tolerate and respect their ideas and even tolerate the ideas that are different to ours. Today, the American society can rely on education to make everyone understand that no race is better than the other, however different they are.