Over the last couple of years, the media has focused its attention on the injustices that has been occurring with the authorities versus African Americans. In the article The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration written by Ta-Nehesi Coate, shows that these problems aren’t new. The author, focuses his attention on Moynihan and his efforts to bring to light the issues that African Americans face. Coate vividly describes scenarios that Moynihan believes effect African American lives. Througout the article we see Moynihan views shift which represents how society recognizes a problem tries finding a solution but at the first sign of difficulty they give up and do nothing about
