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Introduction
According to the sociological theories, different dynamics has been elucidated that
lead to different type of conflicts (Schuldt & Pearson, 2016).In the year of 1945, a sociologist
named Louis Wirth explained a ‘minority group’ as a specific group of the people who share
cultural & social roots but receive unequal & treatment from the ‘dominant’ group of society.
They recognize themselves as individuals for ‘collective discrimination’ who are being
oppressed by the dominant groups of society. Minority in a sociocultural framework refers to
discrimination & other term for ‘minority group’ is ‘subordinate group’. The article named
‘Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?’ By Keenaga Yamatha Taylo, is a powerful
depiction of social conflict between the ‘whites’ of America (dominant group) & the African
Americans (minority group). In the media piece, about 4000 African Americans being were
reported to be killed by the white cops in the streets of America. The concepts of race &
ethnicity have been changed through the passage of eras. In the modern era, due to
technology & migration issues, people feels less connected & bonded to their ancestral values
& the present familial framework. The geographic regions, ethnicities, skin colors & the
ecological divisions between human beings have led to increase in ecological diversity. In
this essay, a media piece regarding a social conflict issue in America has been discussed &
the socio-cultural conflict between the dominant & minority group, has been explored. Social
diversity, in any country refers to the socio-cultural diversity of the nation that encompasses
different types of races, diversity & the ethnic groups (Cobb Perry & Dougherty, 2015).
Large number of social groups co-exists within the same country which contributes to the
rich cultural & social diversity but there can also be various forms of conflict that can arise
between these groups, given the social dynamics at a given point of time. Their lives are
worth living or not & to what extent & how much their lives are dominated & oppressed by
the dominant white groups of America – are actually explored in this media piece. In the

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news piece, a forty four year old woman who was pregnant is reported to be shot five times
by a white complexioned cop of America. The medical examiner ruled it as a homicide. The
article focuses on a person named Mike Brown whose death begun a ‘protest led movement’
amongst the poor working-class African American communities living in America against the
white complexioned police driven terror. This article is a classical example of conflict &
social diversity due to class inequity, social disparity & power disparity which in turn causes
more social disruption & terror (Petras, 2018).
Social diversity & social conflict
While ruthless murders & insane social oppression of the black people have been
elucidated with marked brilliance – the article also considers the concept of ‘pure hatred’ that
a dominant social group can exert on a minority group. Dominant group has maximum power
in a society while the ‘minority group’ has the least level of power. A report by Charles
Wagley & Marvin Harris (1958) recognizes these five aspects related to minority class. The
major aspects are involuntary group membership, disparity in power & inequity treatment,
discrimination on cultural or physical traits such as skin color & local language they are
aware that they are subordinate, marriages occur inside the group. In the article, the two
social groups are contrasted against each other in terms of violence, aggression & terror. The
dominant white complexional Americans have been shown to exert ruthless force & life
threatening dominance on the minority of African Americans. The media piece questions the
values of ‘black’ African – Americans; explores the understanding class inequity, social
differentiation & social conflict’. The media piece also elucidates the fact that not everyone is
same, not every individual is same in a social group – but a specific subgroup (as for example
the American police officers in the article) can conflict the most against the minority group
(as they have power & authority), to the level of inhumanity (a pregnant woman pleads for
her life & for the life of her child but she is killed, mercilessly by a white complexioned cop