Zero has set back race relations in this country by decades.
There are a lot of loaded, misdirected and poorly worded questions in this “poll”. Typical. For example:
“But blacks and whites have fundamentally different perspectives when it comes to frequency, severity, and longevity of racial discrimination blacks face.”
What about the numerous examples of individual and ESPECIALLY government created and enforced racial discrimination that WHITES face? Starting with “Affirmative Action”.
Meanwhile, the media distortion of the killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin has further polarized America along racial lines.....There, fixed it.
I’d like to see a poll where they ask blacks if they think whites are racist and vica-versa.
I’d like to see a poll where they ask blacks if they think whites are racist and vica-versa.
Newsweek/Daily Beast Poll Finds Majorities of Americans Think Country Divided by Rac(ist President).
I live in a very diverse area, Abington, just outside Philly. I have definitely sensed an uptick in seething anger when I’m around black people. Then again, I tend to put out a vibe myself, “you don’t intimidate me.”
Just the other day I was walking in a parking lot when a male “youth” eyeballed me. I gave it right back to him and nothing happened. I pity the soft liberal babe who runs into him next.
America is divided by more than race. LoL
On the surface, I have to say Americans are not divided by race. They are divided by Barack Obama.
“Newsweek/Daily Beast Poll Finds Majorities of Americans Think Country Divided by Race”
Americans are quite perceptive of reality.
Even when the elites and media are not.
Most troubling:
“But twice as many blacks (40%) as whites (20%) say it is very divided. And just 19 percent of whites say that racism is a big problem in America, vs. 60 percent of blacks.”
Since the 1950’s, all attempts to promote “equality” and “integration” have not improved racial relations in America. Quite the contrary, they have made, and continue to make the situation progressively worse.
Central to these divisions was the passage of the Civil Rights Act. By creating “protected classes” of individuals (quite intentionally blacks), it did more to promote UNequality than vice versa. The CRA had the side-effect of jump-starting the “discrim-industry”, today headed by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. What use is a law that is supposedly enacted to root out and identify “discrimination”, unless you have an ever-increasing number of “victims” and an ever-identifiable group of “discriminators” determined to keep them down?
Since the 50’s/60’s, blacks have been bombarded with the propaganda that they are the victims of white racism, both historically (as slaves) and today. For a black person, taught from childhood that whites are suspect, what other possible result can be expected, other than those revealed by the results of the poll above?
Also from the article:
“Only 16 percent of blacks say they have already achieved racial equality and nearly half of blacks (47%) say that they will not achieve racial equality in their lifetime or will never achieve racial equality.”
Things are not going to get better....
and to think that back in 2008 anyon who voted/planned to vote for Obama was considerded a racist, well, Who Are The Racists Now?