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Gap widens between blacks, whites over view of US race relations
The gap between black and white Americans over whether race relations is the biggest US problem is wider than it has been in any year since the period from 2002 to 2007, a survey released on Thursday showed.The Gallup survey comes after a series of police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York's Staten Island, and Baltimore, Maryland, have fueled a national debate about justice for US minorities. After weeks of protests over the August 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, blacks became just as likely to name race relations as the nation's top problem as they were to name unemployment, the polling company found. In the last quarter of 2014, 15 percent of blacks cited race relations as the top US problem, compared with 3 percent of whites in the same quarter - a 12 percent gap, the survey found. In the most recent quarter - April to June 2015 - the gap was 9 percentage points - 13 percent of blacks and 4 percent of whites named race relations as the most important US problem. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-12 |
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