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Race Relations Declining - Unexpectedly!
A recent U.S. poll indicates America has not entered the post-racial "world of harmony" that so many had envisioned with the election of the country's first African American president. Even I was hopeful, at first. Almost six in 10 Americans, including large majorities of both blacks and whites, say they think current race relations are bad, while nearly four in 10 think race relations in the country are getting worse, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted last week. In 2008, during Obama's first presidential campaign, almost 60 percent of African Americans described race relations as "generally bad." That number was reduced by half right after his election. Now, however, 68 percent of African Americans say they think relations are bad. Not that much change in that tribe. The report on the poll in The New York Times says this is the "highest level of discontent among blacks during the Obama years and close to the numbers recorded in the aftermath of the riots that followed the 1992 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King." Leave it to the Slimes to pick at that old scar. The poll comes after the mass media attention and demonstrations following a number of killings of black men at the hands of white police officers, Leave it to the media to continuously beat that drum. as well as the killing of Bible study group members in an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina by a young, white man. Who on at least one occasion, displayed a Confederate flag. Only Horrible then and horrible now. Cheerful group! Nearly half of those surveyed said the election of the country's first black president has had no effect on bringing the races together. A third said it had driven them further apart. Fifteen percent said race relations have improved. As opposed to the 20% in the previous paragraph. A hefty 72 percent of African Americans said they approved of the way Obama is handling race relations, compared with 40 percent for whites. Every one of them voted Democratic, some of them several times, whether they knew it or not. Posted by: Bobby 2015-07-24 |
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