The article, “Racial Conflict: Are U.S. Policies Discriminatory” by Peter Katel emphasized the point that conflicts involving racism have troubled many cities in the U.S, and minority groups (e.g. African American’s) are fighting for policy changes. For example, Katel (2016) asserted that the problems pertaining to moral failings of Black communities should be more touched upon rather than only focusing on institutional racism. Additionally, Katel (2016) claimed that welfare state, government aid to single mothers, and the absence of male authority figures has caused family values to be broken down. Also, Katel (2016) showed that most homicide victims are African-Americans who were in fact murdered by other African-Americans. Meanwhile, pro-policy
