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| Gap widens between blacks, whites over view of US race relations |
| 2015-06-12 |
| 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 |
| #5 The Obama Plan(tm) solution would be to allow an uncontrolled number of Caribbean and African blacks into the country. Their perspective will adjust the numbers significantly. Within reason I don't have a huge problem with Caribbean and African immigration. They seem to be relatively good immigrants for the most part: hardworking, family oriented, and so forth. In fact, from what I've seen the group that has the biggest problem with them is "African" Americans. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2015-06-12 22:08 |
| #4 If not martial law, at least a fine excuse for the DoJ to take over a number of local police departments. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-06-12 17:53 |
| #3 Courtesy of Obumble and his race baiters. All part of the plan as the excuse for martial law. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-06-12 15:55 |
| #2 The Obama Plan(tm) solution would be to allow an uncontrolled number of Caribbean and African blacks into the country. Their perspective will adjust the numbers significantly. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-12 15:22 |
| #1 Lakacash is always number one. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-06-12 15:11 |