Thursday, February 26, 2015

Data shows Blacks targeted by Police more than Whites, blacks get it in business too.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/26/1366982/-Large-Majorites-of-Whites-Say-Blacks-Treated-Equally-by-Police-etc-but-Objective-Data-Shows-Bias

In a recent poll, while 70% of African-Americans believe blacks are treated less fairly by the police, only 37% of whites feel the same way. Obviously, the rash of media coverage of police killings of African-Americans has had little if any effect in how the majority of white Americans view police mistreatment of minority populations.  This mirrors results in other areas in which whites do perceive discrimination against blacks: For example, 73% of whites do not believe blacks are treated unequally by the courts; 84% think they are treated equally in the workplace; and 87% of whites do not think African-Americans are discriminated against when it comes to voting.
Obviously, most whites, a large majority whites in every case, do not subjectively believe that any bias against African-Americans exists in our society.  A large majority of people of color just as obviously subjectively perceive that our society does treat people differently based on the color of their skin, rather than the content of their character, to paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr.  And this perception holds consistently across different regions of the country:

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