Americans consider blacks more likely to be racist than whites and Hispanics in this country.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American Adults think most black Americans are racist, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 15% consider most white Americans racist, while 18% say the same of most Hispanic Americans.
Because apparently there's no greater tear in the social fabric of America over the last 400 years than angry, racist black people.
There is a huge ideological difference on this topic. Among conservative Americans, 49% consider most blacks racist, and only 12% see most whites that way. Among liberal voters, 27% see most white Americans as racist, and 21% say the same about black Americans.
From a partisan perspective, 49% of Republicans see most black Americans as racist, along with 36% of unaffiliated adults and 29% of Democrats.
So, to half of conservatives (and Republicans) and a pretty non-trivial chunk of Dems, I'm racist, period, just because I'm black. I'll let you dwell on what that means for a country with a black president for a while, and Happy 4th of July!
Hahaha. "What I can't stand about black people, they're all racists. Why can't they see people as individuals like me?"
ReplyDeletePrecisely - they don't seem to realize that the statement "it's the blacks that are racist, not the whites" is itself a race-based generalization, and thus itself racist.
ReplyDeleteI'll leave these good folks to ponder a quote from the Bible: "It is easier to see the mote in your brother's eye than the beam in your own."
On a side note, the Supreme Court recently ruled that we don't need the Voting Rights Act any more, because there's no racism here...
Enough beams in those eyes to buil a barn.
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