Racial Conflict By Peter Katel

The article, Racial Conflict, written by Peter Katel in January 8, 2016, is about racism in the United State and to discuss if U.S. policies are discriminatory. Propelled largely by videos of violent police confrontations with African- Americans, protesters have taken to the streets in Chicago, New York and other cities demanding changes in police tactics. These brutal policing tactics had lead persons to say that U.S. policies are discriminatory. For example, Chicago police officer shot 17-year-old Laquan Mc Donald 16 times in the street. Official kept the video away from the public until a reporter forced its release through freedom of information request. Keeping the video under wrap prove that Mc Donald was killed innocently which also

Police are supposed to maintain the law, but how can you differentiate a police officer from a criminal when they themselves are breaking the law and killing innocent people. Police are not just killing people randomly, they are targeting African Americans. African Americans die at the hands of police more than white which proves that U.S. policies are discriminatory. In “Chicago police shot and killed 70 people, most of them black, in five years period ending in 2014” (Peter Katel 2016). Additional African Americans death by police is not just criminal but also innocent and unarmed African Americans. According to the article, African Americans account for only 6 percent of the U.S. population. Africans Americans are a small group, therefore, Africans American death should be small, but statistics have proven otherwise. As noted in the article 40 percent – 37 percent of the 90 unarmed deaths by police are African Americas males. This statistics shows that the deaths of Africans Americans are less than whites but when you compare the population of Africans America against whites in the U.S. it proves that African Americans are dying faster than white. Additional that proves that police are killing African Americans more than

are not discriminatory because the three laws of the 1960’s are still in place. Those laws are still in place but that does not mean that persons do not break the law. These three laws are the Civil Rights Act, The Voting Act, and Fair Housing Act. Although these laws are in place racial discrimination still did not ended. The Voting Act gives everyone the right to vote without discrimination. Obama’s election aroused hope that racial discrimination no longer exist and that the three laws are working. However, the challenge on Obama’s citizenship proved that U.S. policies are discriminatory. The fact that after Obama’s election they started to challenge him on his U.S. citizenship proved that they wanted him out of the election. The Voting Act was in place but they just ignored it and started to attack his citizenship. “Hinkson of Georgetown says ‘Hillary Clinton believes too much in the power of law to effect substantial change. With laws, you have a possibility of change, but you can’t actual change without having mechanism in place to ensure that the law is upheld’ Peter Katel”. This comment by Hinkson proves that laws are been broken and that U.S. racial policies are