2. "We are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don't want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete. We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments
toward providing health care, housing, education and good jobs. If we did this, there would be less need
for the police in the first place."
What does Kaba mean when she says she wants to make police departments obsolete? What is Kaba
trying to convey? Why is this quote significant?

A. Elenita versus the music of her parents' homeland.

Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). In the given excerpt from Gravity by Judith Ortiz Cofer we can see an example of an external conflict between a character (Elenita) and the music of her parents' homeland, which her mother used to listen to in the evenings.