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A new AP poll claims that racial prejudice against Blacks has increased since the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
The AP has come to this conclusion in part because in one question only 24% of respondents liked Blacks “a great deal” as compared to 31% in 2010. But I would point out that 45% they “neither liked or disliked” Blacks as compared to 40% in 2010. I would interpret that data and conclude that an increasing number of people do not take a person’s skin color into consideration when determining if they like or dislike someone.
Of course, if fewer respondents indeed like Blacks “a great deal” then who is to say these attitudes are coming exclusively from Whites. Isn’t it possible for Asians and Hispanics to harbor prejudice against Blacks?
But let’s consider the content of the AP article which accompanies the poll:
Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the nation elected its first black President, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice towards black people whether they recognize those feelings or not.
These views could cost President Obama votes as he tries for reelection, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some people’s more favorable views of black people.
So let me see if I have this right. People can be racist and not even know it. Does that mean if someone opposes Obamacare it’s a subconscious expression of racism?
What a load of fatuous nonsense!!!
The bottom line here is that the AP sees the writing on the wall. They are anticipating a Romney victory and are already trying to delegitimize the outcome by casting aspersions against a significant segment of the American electorate with this agenda driven poll. I am sure it never occurs to the AP (or any other liberal media outfit) that President Obama might lose the election because of his performance, not his pigmentation.
Like other liberal media outlets, the AP is vested in Obama’s re-election. Remember when AP Board Chairman Dean Singleton lavished praise upon Obama as he introduced him during the AP’s annual meeting in Washington D.C. last April?
Nearly a year ago, I predicted there would be cries of racism if Obama were to lose the 2012 election. It seems the cries have already begun.
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fmm| 10.28.12 @ 6:16AM
As usual any actual points of contention are missed by such a survey. Peoples view of blacks in general has probably not changed much, but Black Politics is likely to be more out of favor now. The use of racial discrimination by supposedly black leaders, including the POTUS, and mentally unstable progressive whiteys has become more obvious to the general public and is indeed a turnoff.
Cobalt| 10.28.12 @ 6:18AM
Whitey does not have a monopoly on racism.
"Black Mob Violence And The Media Silence"
By Colin Flaherty
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/bla.....a-silence/
Truth to Power| 10.28.12 @ 7:39AM
"Nearly a year ago, I predicted there would be cries of racism if Obama were to lose the 2012 election. It seems the cries have already begun."
There have cries of racism resulting from mere disagreement since the big O was elected. Unsubstantiated claims are the norm. This is what the left does. The Democratic Party has always been race obsessed and it is today. George Wallace is symbolic of the party. He played on both sides of the race obsessed spectrum. As mentioned by Cobalt above there is a racism problem and it is being ignored by the elite.
Commander Kelly | 10.28.12 @ 8:02AM
We are in the final "recrimination" phase of the Obama campaign. For my review of Skyfall see...http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.co.uk/ See why James Bond would vote for Romney if he could!
Bob Grant| 10.28.12 @ 10:12AM
Mboy,
Who didn't see this one coming. Two weeks before the election.
When you can't win on issues or a record you use the old stand by: Guilt them into voting for you.
"Look white people. You are ALL racists, whether you want to believe it or not.
You don't believe me?....here, take this loaded test and see for yourself how racist you are.
You - by extension of your lineage - have committed THE original sin for which you MIGHT be forgiven if you submit to arbitrary rules as written by the African American Intellectual Community for the remainder of your life.
A good start was voting for barack obama in '08 but will be meaningless unless vote for him in '12.
The road to forgiveness begins, but does not end there.
Got it? "
- henry louis gates, lamont hill
polnick| 10.28.12 @ 11:03AM
Virgins on college campuses are giving their cherry to hip-hop studs. The "doing it for the first time" video is responsible for this trend. Cherry busting will be taking place behind curtains in voting booths. College gals are turned off on Romney guys because they only go bareback.
Vance P. Frickey| 10.28.12 @ 12:32PM
Obama got the nation's cherry in 2008; then spent the next 1,461 mornings not respecting us.
Of course, I could be misconstruing "respect" as not running through the Federal treasury to reward his supporters just after being elected - his GM-Chrysler bailout would have been investigated as a prodigy of political kickbackery if it'd happened under Bush and the UAW had supported the GOP, and the "stimulus" sits half-unspent in the bank accounts of Obama supporters, not circulating in the economy as promised.
Of course, if Obama screwed us, does that mean the liberal press are the "crew" that has held us down for the rape?
Mike G| 10.28.12 @ 11:51AM
I hate to break the news, but prejudice has been around since the beginning of mankind. It will still be here long after I'm dead and gone. While I believe that a prejudice-free world is something we should strive for (much like world peace), I don't believe it will ever have it.
Vance P. Frickey| 10.28.12 @ 12:24PM
The Associated Press has finally wrested the crown of "Most Leftward Slant in a Wire Service" from the McClatchy Newspapers.
Butch| 10.28.12 @ 3:44PM
Does anybody "like" any race, a "great deal" or otherwise? I don't necessarily like my own, but then again, I never really thought about it.
spike59| 10.29.12 @ 6:06AM
ah-HA!!!!!!! so, you've 'never really thought about it'...per the AP, that means...RACIST!!!!!!
Infantryman| 10.28.12 @ 5:15PM
All cities with a significant gang problem better be preparing the riots if President Obama looses. If these occur, decent people living in and about ghetto areas as usual will be the ones to suffer. Mayors should announce ahead of time that they are prepared to ask Govenors for martial law, with looters shot on sight. No more patty cake.
Infantryman| 10.28.12 @ 5:17PM
preparing FOR the
Aaron Investigates | 10.28.12 @ 9:25PM
I recently made similar points in an article.
I particularly like how the title highlights one of the points I attempted to make, but I don't think that it was emphasized enough in the article.
What I take from the article, and the data from the actual survey, is that, in the first place, the timing and wording of the AP offering indicate the obvious fact that both are designed to help the Obama re-election effort. Others have already mentioned that same thought.
The other, and more important point, is that it suggests that we are not talking about unwarranted prejudice here..and no I'm not being racist. The point being that more people seem to oppose Obama after getting to know him, refuting the "prejudice" meme. More people supported him when one of the few things they knew about him was the color of his skin.
In the AP article, as I discuss, it notes that most black mayors, for example, saw an increase in white support after their first term, not less.
The only way prejudice is a factor in this election is those of us who have a "prejudice" against Obama himself.
ebonystone| 10.28.12 @ 11:27PM
If there's more racism now than in 2008, it's because then only people who lived in certain large cities had experience of the incompetence, corruption, and cronyism that sadly has been the norm in black administrations for 40 years. Now the whole country has had the experience.