AP poll: U.S. majority have prejudice against blacks.

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In all, 51% of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48% in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56%, up from 49% 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% of non-Hispanic whites expressed anti-Hispanic attitudes. That figure rose to 57% 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.

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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% among Republicans compared with 32% 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% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans), as did about half of political independents (49%)
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So, at what point does this thread become a discussion of how White people don't see White privlage, therefor it doesn't exist while other people explain how that's an insane and unfactual opinion?

Well, maybe this will change somebody's mind that we live in a post-racial America because Obama got elected.... but probably not.

EDIT: Can somebody answer this, don't we have a higher percentage of blacks+hispanics today than we did during the last poll? So, wouldn't that mean that Whites that weren't racialy biased now are?
 
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Just kidding, still sad though. I have definitely had my share of awkward conversations with co-workers, where they seemingly forget that I am African American and just roll off into a completely unveiled hate speech centered around the president. I love the awkward "no offense" silliness that follows.

jamesinclair said:
It's all those Denys fight videos
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Worldstarhiphop holding us back.
 
I would like more info on exactly what questions/answer combinations would be considered "prejudice" before I take this seriously. Read several articles on this and they are suspiciously short on details.

(not saying it doesn't exist....that number just seems too high)
 
The Adder said:
BTW, the reason people are getting different tests is because the link goes to the current FEATURED test.

If you want to get the right one, click this:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html

Then click "Race IAT"
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If you guys want to take an Implicit (Racism) Association Test, click on what The Adder says later in this thread (quoted above). My link gave different tests to different people. Make sure to click on Race IAT.
 
But I was told by conservatives that Tea Partiers are not racist. They just suddenly got an intense seething hatred for politicians spending money and want video tapes of peoples birth if they aren't white.
 
it's sad to say, but amongst the various ethnic groups I've been exposed to over the year Black people get far-an-away to brunt of racist sentiment.
 
teruterubozu said:
The idea that humanity naturally evolves and progresses on an upward scale is a total fallacy.
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I realize that. I'm suggesting that in light of evidence showing that whites aren't superior we might notice that race is a stupid thing to have prejudice against. I would think that with more education there would be less prejudice. But maybe people aren't as smart as we'd like them to be.
 
Unfortunately it's a cyclical problem - discrimination causes poverty causes crime causes discrimination.
 
What bothers me the most is the thiny veiled racism. Then the deny of said racism. Then the counter-accusation that noticing racism is really the true racism...

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Dragonzord said:
Not know any Persians?
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yes, but not a lot. They are also all super progressive, and I've never heard them say anything. I don't know any older Persians really, nor ones who are simply casual acquaintances.

edit: Do you mean racism directed towards Persian? If so, I've never experienced racism to the face of my Persian friends. And I've also never really heard anyone say racists things about Persians (that weren't in jest) in general. I hear xenophobic comments directed towards Muslims, but that's a different question. I'd say Muslims are number 2 on the brunt of bigotry list in my personal experience.
 
I'm not surprised at all. This probably won't be rectified in my lifetime, but I'd like to see some progress--which is going to be hard to accomplish.

Damn though. Born with a bulls-eye.
 
Grakl said:
If you guys want to take an Implicit (Racism) Association Test, click here https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/featuredtask.html
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I'm taking this right now, and a lot of these questions are awful. I'll finish it out to be a good sport, but take a question like this:
"I think it is important that we have Affirmative Action programs in the United States"
Strongly Agree
Somewhat Agree
Neutral
Somewhat Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Well, what are they trying to gauge here? AA comes in a lot of forms. I'm for income-based AA, but what will they try to conclude if I say "Strongly Agree"? Given the previous questions, and following questions, it look like they actually want to know whether I am in favor of race-based AA, which I am not. That's not what the question is asking, though.

Most of the survey is like this. Poorly worded questions, transparent questions that won't produce good answers, and, the worst category, questions with no answers that apply to me.

Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:
It's not like we're a team.
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Especially not with that avatar sir.

that1dude24 said:
this really takes faux victimization to another level
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Not wanting to "seem racist" by not voting for Obama was a huge issue in the first election. I worked in politics at the time, and there were very few white people I talked to who did not feel some kind of sting of conscience on the matter. I am, however, joking about this being an outright ploy to influence people's vote.
 
Binabik15 said:
I stopped after it asked me questions like "is Romney too rich to care for common people". How does that test me, a non-US citizen about racism, let alone my opinions on mormons.

Wut.
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That was almost the very end of the test, and didn't have bearing on the results. It's to understand your place on the political spectrum compared to how implicitly/explicitly racist you are.

Karsticles said:
I'm taking this right now, and a lot of these questions are awful. I'll finish it out to be a good sport, but take a question like this:
"I think it is important that we have Affirmative Action programs in the United States"
Strongly Agree
Somewhat Agree
Neutral
Somewhat Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Well, what are they trying to gauge here? AA comes in a lot of forms. I'm for income-based AA, but what will they try to conclude if I say "Strongly Agree"? Given the previous questions, and following questions, it look like they actually want to know whether I am in favor of race-based AA, which I am not. That's not what the question is asking, though.

Most of the survey is like this. Poorly worded questions, transparent questions that won't produce good answers, and, the worst category, questions with no answers that apply to me.
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Explicit racism. The actual test is only determined by the picture/good words portion. I agree that everything else really is extraneous.
 
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