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Title: Racial Views: Poll Shows Majority Harbor Prejudice Against Blacks
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/ ... ws-new-polls-sh_n_2029423.html
Published: Oct 27, 2012
Author: SONYA ROSS and JENNIFER AGIESTA
Post Date: 2012-10-27 08:56:12 by Ada
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WASHINGTON -- Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not. Those views could cost President Barack Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some Americans' more favorable views of blacks. Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked respondents about racist attitudes, or through an experimental test that measured implicit views toward race without asking questions about that topic directly. In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell. "As much as we'd hope the impact of race would decline over time ... it appears the impact of anti-black sentiment on voting is about the same as it was four years ago," said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who worked with AP to develop the survey. Most Americans expressed anti-Hispanic sentiments, too. In an AP survey done in 2011, 52 percent of non-Hispanic whites expressed anti-Hispanic attitudes. That figure rose to 57 percent in the implicit test. The survey on Hispanics had no past data for comparison. The AP surveys were conducted with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago. Experts on race said they were not surprised by the findings. "We have this false idea that there is uniformity in progress and that things change in one big step. That is not the way history has worked," said Jelani Cobb, professor of history and director of the Institute for African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut. "When we've seen progress, we've also seen backlash." Obama himself has tread cautiously on the subject of race, but many African- Americans have talked openly about perceived antagonism toward them since Obama took office. As evidence, they point to events involving police brutality or cite bumper stickers, cartoons and protest posters that mock the president as a lion or a monkey, or lynch him in effigy. "Part of it is growing polarization within American society," said Fredrick Harris, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. "The last Democrat in the White House said we had to have a national discussion about race. There's been total silence around issues of race with this president. But, as you see, whether there is silence, or an elevation of the discussion of race, you still have polarization. It will take more generations, I suspect, before we eliminate these deep feelings." Overall, the survey found that by virtue of racial prejudice, Obama could lose 5 percentage points off his share of the popular vote in his Nov. 6 contest against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. However, Obama also stands to benefit from a 3 percentage point gain due to pro-black sentiment, researchers said. Overall, that means an estimated net loss of 2 percentage points due to anti- black attitudes. The poll finds that racial prejudice is not limited to one group of partisans. Although Republicans were more likely than Democrats to express racial prejudice in the questions measuring explicit racism (79 percent among Republicans compared with 32 percent among Democrats), the implicit test found little difference between the two parties. That test showed a majority of both Democrats and Republicans held anti-black feelings (55 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans), as did about half of political independents (49 percent). Obama faced a similar situation in 2008, the survey then found. The Associated Press developed the surveys to measure sensitive racial views in several ways and repeated those studies several times between 2008 and 2012. The explicit racism measures asked respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements about black and Hispanic people. In addition, the surveys asked how well respondents thought certain words, such as "friendly," "hardworking," "violent" and "lazy," described blacks, whites and Hispanics. The same respondents were also administered a survey designed to measure implicit racism, in which a photo of a black, Hispanic or white male flashed on the screen before a neutral image of a Chinese character. The respondents were then asked to rate their feelings toward the Chinese character. Previous research has shown that people transfer their feelings about the photo onto the character, allowing researchers to measure racist feelings even if a respondent does not acknowledge them. Results from those questions were analyzed with poll takers' ages, partisan beliefs, views on Obama and Romney and other factors, which allowed researchers to predict the likelihood that people would vote for either Obama or Romney. Those models were then used to estimate the net impact of each factor on the candidates' support. All the surveys were conducted online. Other research has shown that poll takers are more likely to share unpopular attitudes when they are filling out a survey using a computer rather than speaking with an interviewer. Respondents were randomly selected from a nationally representative panel maintained by GfK Custom Research. Overall results from each survey have a margin of sampling error of approximately plus or minus 4 percentage points. The most recent poll, measuring anti-black views, was conducted Aug. 30 to Sept. 11. Andra Gillespie, an Emory University political scientist who studies race- neutrality among black politicians, contrasted the situation to that faced by the first black mayors elected in major U.S. cities, the closest parallel to Obama's first-black situation. Those mayors, she said, typically won about 20 percent of the white vote in their first races, but when seeking reelection they enjoyed greater white support presumably because "the whites who stayed in the cities ... became more comfortable with a black executive." "President Obama's election clearly didn't change those who appear to be sort of hard-wired folks with racial resentment," she said. Negative racial attitudes can manifest in policy, noted Alan Jenkins, an assistant solicitor general during the Clinton administration and now executive director of the Opportunity Agenda think tank. "That has very real circumstances in the way people are treated by police, the way kids are treated by teachers, the way home seekers are treated by landlords and real estate agents," Jenkins said. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York state assemblyman and candidate for a congressional seat being vacated by a fellow black Democrat, called it troubling that more progress on racial attitudes had not been made. Jeffries has fought a New York City police program of "stop and frisk" that has affected mostly blacks and Latinos but which supporters contend is not racially focused. "I do remain cautiously optimistic that the future of America bends toward the side of increased racial tolerance," Jeffries said. "We've come a long way, but clearly these results demonstrate there's a long way to go." ___ AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Prejudice by definition is a pre-judgment and I don't believe most people base their feelings on an anticipation of what blacks may do in the future but on what blacks as a group have done for decages if not millenium. "Bankers" - Kill em all and let Satan sort em out" !!!
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Without reading all of this tripe, one has to wonder if there has been a study among blacks to see how many hate whites????? Of course not. It would be damned near 100 per cent.
The Wichita Massacre.....Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome.....Anne Pressley, the blonde reporter from Arkansas who was beaten so hard that her jaw was broke off from her skull.....yeah, white people are mistaken to fear these satanic beasts who immitate human beings. an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.
#2. To: Ada, Small World-1958, 4 (#0)
#3. To: All (#2)
#4. To: All (#3)
#5. To: Ada (#0)
In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes
#6. To: Ada (#0)
(Edited)
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: Ada (#0)
This article is meant to shore up support for Obama among those suffering from white guilt and those who feel they have to prove that they aren't racists. If not voting for Obama makes me a racist in the eyes of his supporters then so be it - I'm a racist. I couldn't care less what a bunch of moral degenerates think of me. Those who support Obama or Romney are supporters of perpetual war, torture, indefinite detention, and state sponsored murder of their fellow citizens. I'd rather be known as a racist than a person who supports those things.
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown
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Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#8. To: Ada (#0)
Michael Moore doesn't live in 8 mile. the implicit test found little difference between the two parties.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#9. To: X-15 (#6)
Satanic they ain't but... They are the only group without neanderthal dna... They have the highest prevalence of pre-human dental features... Makes me wonder. white people are mistaken to fear these satanic beasts
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#10. To: Ada (#0)
Racists abound. Black racists, white racists, hispanic racists, asian racists. If McCain was doing the same stuff Obama has been doing many of the same people that can't stand Obama would defend McCain.
God is always good!
#11. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#9)
Fuck it they aren't!! Niggers are the minions of Satan. Period. I avoid that line of animals more than I avoid American Staffordshire Terriers. Satanic they ain't but...
-Alex Kurtagic
#12. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#9)
They have the highest prevalence of pre-human dental features... Makes me wonder. For those of us that aren't anthropologists, makes you wonder what, exactly? They are the only group without neanderthal dna...
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#13. To: Ada (#0)
'Implicit' means 'what ever we say it means', and I am sure the 'study' has a whole pot of psycho-babble that boils down to 'we rigged the shit out of this study and how'. It's not "prejudice" it's discernment, discriminate means to see a difference. I can discriminate between a rotten apple and a ripe one, a sweet smell and a sour one, a criminal race and a civil one. Jew propaganda can't hide the odious niggers' nature from rational human beings any longer.
-Alex Kurtagic
#14. To: X-15 (#13)
The Ewe-No-Hoos are trying to outlaw & eradicate what used to be known as common sense (which is no longer common).
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#15. To: RickyJ (#10) (Edited)
Yeah, but that's mostly attributed to partisan politics, a.k.a. stupidity, not racism. If you're not a racist, you're an idiot. The ability to make simple determinations is not a crime, nor is it wrong in any way. If McCain was doing the same stuff Obama has been doing many of the same people that can't stand Obama would defend McCain.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#16. To: Esso (#12)
There's a theory that modern africans are the product of humans and something close. It's just that the something close hasn't been identified yet. For those of us that aren't anthropologists, makes you wonder what, exactly?
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#17. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#16)
You nailed it. DNA shows blacks aren't same species as other races: "While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling card in present-day Africans: snippets of foreign DNA." http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/early-africans-mated-with- mystery-species-of-humans/2012/07/26/gJQAxFzZBX_story.html?hpid=z4 In case the link doesn't work: Washington Post>Health & Science>Brian Vastag (author)>"Neanderthal-type species once roamed Africa, DNA shows" There's a theory that modern africans are the product of humans and something close.
-Alex Kurtagic
#18. To: Esso (#15)
"A few months ago you began to see the expected race-traitor op eds - if Obama isn't re-elected it's because you're a white racist. Damn you! Damn you all to Hell!! - but what JooFag™ Central didn't count on was the blowback: it appeared that finally, finally, white people had reached their saturation point for race guilt and externally-implanted self-loathing. Whoops. Suddenly it was as if every weenie in rectangular eyeglasses, having scorched their fingers jumping too early, retreated watchfully for a while - not, however, to alter strategy, since vote for Tha One or your name will go on the Race-iss Register IS the re-election strategy. But merely to wait for a juicier opportunity to pounce. Now, of course, roughly ten days from zero hour, caution is thrown to the winds and every race traitor with a byline or an anchor-desk has been given the 'go' code. And if Obammy loses, as now seems likely, the only thing preventing America's Fourth Estate from encouraging sedition and revolt will be the tens of thousands of niggers running amok in a kind of bizarre national Greek Week I'm planning to call Tropical Storm Tashinga."
-Alex Kurtagic
#19. To: Ada (#0)
How come we never get studies on racism within the black and Hispanic communities. My guess is it is higher than among whites.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#20. To: farmfriend (#19)
Because anti-racist is code for anti-white. How come we never get studies on racism within the black and Hispanic communities.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#21. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#20)
If they took the trouble to poll blacks they'd find that they too have a low opinion of blacks, with good reason. That's why so many blacks keep trying to move out of black neighborhoods and schools and into white neighborhoods and schools. If that isn't a damning self- indictment I don't know what is.
-Alex Kurtagic
#22. To: X-15, Prefrontal Vortex (#21)
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#23. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#16)
Thanks, I've never heard about that. There's a theory that modern africans are the product of humans and something close.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#24. To: Esso (#15)
And what of those who are born neither an idiot nor a racist? This is truly sad that we live under such conditioning that it is considered normal to hate. Jesus taught his disciples to love our fellow man regardless of race. Jesus grieves for his sheep to wake up and walk in His ways. Don't be a follower of man's ways. The Lord teaches us to love our fellow beings. It is Satan who teaches us to hate one another. So very sad. :( "If you're not a racist, you're an idiot..."
#25. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#9)
They are the only group without neanderthal dna...
Women’s liberation is freedom from the authority of men. Men’s liberation is the freedom from responsibility to women.
#26. To: purplerose (#24)
Nobody says Mexico needs more diversity. Nobody says Kenya needs more diversity. Those places are already 100% diverse. Only white children in white countries are told they need more diversity. Diversity is a code word for white genocide. What kind of a psycho supports white genocide? Are you telling us Jesus supports genocide? This is truly sad that we live under such conditioning that it is considered normal to hate.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#27. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#26)
Jesus has nothing to do with white genocide. Leave Him out of this. White genocide is something invented by Kissinger and Ford Foundation group think tank organizations that have organized with NGOs and MNOs to create constant discord between races of people. They create divisions between races of mankind and pit us together to watch us kill each other. It's called gladiator bloodsport and was something that Kissinger and these wise-assed group think tank groups borrowed from the Romans. Remember that in the earlier times under Roman control, many Christians and God fearing people were put out in the arena to fight their rivals. It was such a great sport to watch blood get spilled on the ground because the Romans glorified war. Can't you see how America is imitating the same thing? I know exactly what diversity means and it has not so much to do with race as it does country. To impose diversity on a nation like ours is not anti-white but really is anti-american. What these people should be doing is embracing America the free instead of embracing their race.
#28. To: purplerose (#27)
Hegel...strikes again.
#29. To: X-15 (#11)
LoL! Is this outlined in the Catechism, or....? Fuck it they aren't!! Niggers are the minions of Satan. Period.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#30. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#26)
You betcha. No one with an IQ above 70 could fail to notice that it's actually government agents that promote race-hate. Most humans would prefer to be free, independent, and left alone by Uncle Sambo. Those interested in gubbmint largesse are either political shitheads or some other form of lazy trash. Diversity is a code word for white genocide.
"Bankers" - Kill em all and let Satan sort em out" !!!
#31. To: purplerose, prefrontal vortex (#27)
I agree with you 100% that Christians shouldnt hate. But the jew/NWO agenda is specifically anti-white & anti life, anti family. They deconstruct society. I see nothing wrong with people having cultural or race preferences or "embracing ones race". embracing America the free instead of embracing their race
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#32. To: noone222 (#30)
I'd like to believe that but the evidence indicates that most are indifferent at best when it comes to appreciating or defending even the most innocuous freedoms. Most humans would prefer to be free
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#33. To: Artisan (#31)
Normal attributes ... imho. I see nothing wrong with people having cultural or race preferences or "embracing ones race".
"Bankers" - Kill em all and let Satan sort em out" !!!
#34. To: noone222 (#33)
well most people thru the history of humankind stuck with "their own kind". Perfectly inate. However i also see nothing wrong with each individual's choice of miscegenation. After all, thats what freedom IS.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#35. To: purplerose (#27)
It's anti-white and anti-American, because America is still (barely) a white country. What these people should be doing is embracing America the free instead of embracing their race. So "freedom" requires white genocide. To impose diversity on a nation like ours is not anti-white but really is anti-american.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#36. To: Artisan (#31)
F'in a. But the jew/NWO agenda is specifically anti-white & anti life, anti family.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#37. To: purplerose (#27)
'rose, Please read my tagline then click on "Alex Kurtagic" and read the article, it's a scholarly treatise that lays out many truths. White genocide IS happening in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and White Americans have been conditioned to reject their White Brothers and Sisters and embrace the bloodlust of that unrepentant black communist terrorist, Nelson Mandela. Our government has a ban on the immigration of White South Africans as a misguided reaction to the alleged holocaust of apartheid, which in fact imposed order on the South African blacks and kept them civilized.
-Alex Kurtagic
#38. To: X-15 (#37) (Edited)
Yes, I read your tagline and just finished reading your comment. White genocide is happening everywhere because our government is involved in this conspiracy. Our government wants to see 90% of the population dead in America. They use the race card as the means and hate to motivate such evil intentions. I have several friends of mine from Kenya. One runs their own mechanic business out of So.Central L.A. and his brother ( a close friend of mine) teaches chemistry at a community college. Yes, they are black but both are intelligent people. You wanna know why we have such a problem with black people selling drugs on the streets in L.A.? It's because the CIA uses them as the means to kill one another. I was there attending a conference with several of U.S. Congresspeople on March 7th, 1997 who voiced their concerns on the drug problem on the streets which is controlled by the white people in the CIA. Please don't tell me to embrace my race when I've already seen with my own eyes what my race of people have been doing to other people. I would never teach my children that the white race is the superior race and nor would I ever teach them that they are better than blacks. I would teach them to love their fellow beings regardless of race.
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