Mushmouth
04-05-2018, 07:42 AM
Forty percent of white Americans think black people would be just as well off as white people if they worked harder, according to a new poll from YouGov on Wednesday.
YouGov asked a number of questions on what it called "racial resentment," one of which centered on whether the respondent agreed with the statement: "It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites."
Overall, 35 percent of respondents agreed (16 percent "strongly," 19 percent "somewhat") with that statement. Twenty-eight percent neither agreed nor disagreed.
Forty percent of white respondents agreed (19 percent strongly, 21 percent somewhat) that black people just needed to try harder to be equal, while just 18 percent (5 percent strongly, 13 percent somewhat) of black respondents said the same, according to the YouGov poll.
http://www.newsweek.com/forty-percent-whites-think-black-people-just-need-try-harder-equality-poll-872646
YouGov asked a number of questions on what it called "racial resentment," one of which centered on whether the respondent agreed with the statement: "It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites."
Overall, 35 percent of respondents agreed (16 percent "strongly," 19 percent "somewhat") with that statement. Twenty-eight percent neither agreed nor disagreed.
Forty percent of white respondents agreed (19 percent strongly, 21 percent somewhat) that black people just needed to try harder to be equal, while just 18 percent (5 percent strongly, 13 percent somewhat) of black respondents said the same, according to the YouGov poll.
http://www.newsweek.com/forty-percent-whites-think-black-people-just-need-try-harder-equality-poll-872646