Summary Of Beyond A Simple Solution By Joe Klein

Klein, Joe. "Beyond a Simple Solution." Time 184.8 (2014): 30. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
In the article Beyond a Simple Solution, Joe Klein, author of the passage, discusses that there are vast amount cultural problems in the black community, which he supports by stating “the culture that emerged from slavery and segregation”(Klein par 6). He goes on to discuss that the problems in the community won’t be solved simply because they are far more complicated than they seem, that African-Americans have experienced “400 years of oppression” (Klein par 1) in the U.S. and also discusses and ties everything to, ambiguously, the Michael Brown case. Klein goes on to explain that the dreadful nature of the first-hand description of the Michael Brown case made the shooting a seamless concentration of all the previous terrible acts committed by police officers to suspects. The author elucidates modern day situations of racial profiling and the reality of the minority community. He states “and now we have a metaphor of a

The authors explore difficult social issues that are most of the time highly misunderstood and possible meaningful solutions to such crimes. The writers also acknowledge that the measures to detect these types of crimes reflect bias reasoning is both complex and highly controversial. In addition, the authors emphasize the fact that many efforts that have been intended to find a solution to this type of injustice, but it has been characterized to having varying degrees of “ineffectual and create collateral problems” (Frederickson and Siljander,