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Blacks Say Race Relations Worse Since 2009

Mike

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Fewer African Americans say blacks and whites get along well today than felt that way in 2009, according to a new Pew Research Center/USA Today poll. From 2007 to 2009, the number of black respondents who said blacks and whites get along “very well” or “pretty well” increased seven percentage points, to 76 percent. But since 2009, the share of black respondents who had a positive view of race relations has dropped twelve points, to 64 percent. Similarly, white respondents who thought blacks and whites got along well increased three percentage points from 2007 to 2009, but decreased five percentage points from 2009 to 2014.

The poll also found that 70 percent of black respondents thought police did a poor job of treating racial and ethnic groups equally, while just 25 percent of whites say they do a bad job. Democrats were more critical of police performance than Republicans, and but Pew found that much of the discrepancy could be attributed to the views of African-American Democrats.
 

Brad S

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I'm going way out on a limb here thinking if this economy created some good jobs, minorities would benefit disproportionately. Most men really improve their living standard with a job, car, house, wife, and church.

Think about: US population in 1980 was some 220 million with 100 million jobs ( and many not working were June cleever types), today we have 310 million people with the same 100 million jobs. AND, fantastically, some say this economy is doing well.

Socialist scarcity creats strife, everywhere. Races, sexes, cowboys and Indians, we'd all get along better in a decent economy. That said, when the US economy takes a sustainable tack, we'll see real scarcity.
 

Steve

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I have to agree it is the economy.. and the divider in chief...

I never thought I would see race relations devolve to the point it has,..
 

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