Are White Americans Deluded About Race Relations?

According a recent poll in the Washington Post, White Americans are markedly more optimistic about racsim with the United States than African Americans.

Overall, 51 percent call the current state of race relations "excellent" or "good," about the same as said so five years ago. That is a relative thaw from more negative ratings in the 1990s, but the gap between whites and blacks on the issue is now the widest it has been in polls dating to early 1992.

I'm certainly not surprised that blacks don't view the state of race relations in America as favorably. Especially with memories of Katrina and Jena, Lousiana in the not so distant past.

More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments.

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