WHERE'S THE BLACKS?

AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 people's 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.

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 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."

If you every wonder why, are where, the name came from, "Cracker," well you have been looking at many of them for years and never knew it.  They are the only race that I know of that has skin that crackes which is where the term Cracker comes from and you thought they were talking about something as good as a Ritz.  Now back to the issue at hand, WHERE ARE THE BLACKS?

I don't see a one in the crowd, but then this is the case at every ralley that I have covered during his campaign.  Usually no more than a couple of dozen spreaded across the field to give the appearence we are stronger in numbers, but only at the poles and each time they come up with something new to turn us away.

This is not an unfamiliar seen, but would be consider as petty by the majority of blacks that I converse with.  I’m nit picking, or just looking for a reason to complain about nothing they would say.  These are the people that don’t know when they are being taking for a ride and too smart for their own good, which is why they are always taken advantage of throughout their life.  Afraid to ask questions or to raise their hand out of fear of rocking the both, but they will complain among themselves about what they would say when the time come which has already past.  So here we are four years later still asking ourselves when is there going to be our turn to be the first line to receive a piece of the pie?  Every race that has come to America has prospered to having this and that and everything else.  Where are our hotels, shopping malls, grocery stores and restaurants?  So I wonder what the hell did these black people think Obama was talking about four years ago when he said it was time for a change, because his change, I know for a fact wasn’t what they had in mind.  Every white candidate over the years I have seen going around talking to blacks about voting for him or her and lying about what they are going to do for the black communities or want to see happen.  How many times if ever have you seen Obama speaking to a group of blacks about anything, which is one picture that I yet to run across?  So in other words he haven’t promise to do nothing for us directly because out of his own mouth, “He is not the Blacks President, but of the Nation.”  “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything every time I’m told.”  It better to be loved for doing something than to be hated for doing nothing, and for THINKING OUT LOUD I’m E. L. PLEASANT.

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