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Thread #147743   Message #3427306
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Oct-12 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Colin Powell Endorses Pres Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Colin Powell Endorses Pres Obama
The Gallop Poll has just come out with a poll that indicates that 51% of white people confess to being prejudice when it comes to blacks... That is higher than any time in the last 30 years...

Boberty undestates the case if the AP link given by JohnInKansas a few posts back is reliable:

"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.

That isn't "51% of white people" - the 49 per cent of people not "expressing anti-black attitudes" presumably includes a lot of black people. Take them out of the figures and it's even more depressing.