Posted on 04/17/2016 3:25:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A 2016 Fusion Issues Poll surveyed 1,045 adults from ages 18 to 35. The survey revealed how young people feel about a number of social justice issues related to race, especially reparations.
For example, 62 percent of young people say they are opposed to the government providing reparations to African-Americans for slavery, while 32 percent support the measure. However, the breakdown is much different along racial lines. For example, 62 percent of Blacks and 40 percent of Hispanics say they support reparations, while a paltry 21 percent of whites are in favor.
Moreover, even when it comes to a mere federal apology for slavery, 50 percent of young people overall support it, and 44 percent oppose it. However, that translates into 68 percent of Blacks and 59 percent of Hispanics in favor of a government apology, but only 44 percent of whites supporting the measure.
There are sharp divisions based on political affiliation and ideology as well. For example, 61 percent of young adults who say they are Democrats support an apology for slavery, compared with 51 percent of independents and only 31 percent of those who identify as Republicans. This ranges from 66 percent of very liberal young adults to 27 percent of conservative Republicans. Similarly, 49 percent of liberals support reparations, as do 40 percent of Democrats and 14 percent of Republicans.
Further, there is a gender gap on the issue of slavery, with 59 percent of women favoring an apology, and 41 percent of men. The Fusion study also found that young people are more liberal and independent, and less Republican and conservative than older adults, with 45 percent identifying themselves as independents, 31 percent as Democrats, and 19 percent as Republicans.
The study puts these results in perspective by noting that millennials — who account for one-third of adults — are the most diverse generation in U.S. history. Only 56 percent are white, 21 percent are Latino and 13 percent are Black, with 10 percent other or mixed. Further, the youngest members of the millennial group, ages 18-21, are majority nonwhite at 52 percent, and 48 percent white. In addition, young adults poll higher on racial issues than adults in general. For example, 18 percent of adults favored reparations in a Kaiser Family/CNN poll conducted last August, and in an ABC News/Washington Post poll from 15 years ago, 42 percent of adults agreed with a federal apology for slavery.
Among the other results of the survey, young adults believe that during the Obama administration, the economy has fared significantly better than race relations. While 54 percent say the economy has gotten better — including 81 percent of Blacks, 57 percent of Hispanics and only 47 percent of whites — 27 percent say race relations have similarly improved. By a 12-point margin, more millennials say race relations have soured, but by a 33-point spread, more say the economy has shaped up. Nonetheless, young Americans do not blame Obama for the state of race relations, with more than half believing race relations would be bad regardless of who was in the White House.
When it comes to which presidential candidate they think will appoint more Blacks, Latinos and other groups to government positions, young people in general — including whites and Hispanics — chose Sanders over Clinton by a substantial margin, while Blacks were evenly split between the two candidates. Majorities across racial lines believe that the appointment of people of color is a strong reason to support a candidate for president.
Although young people are more diverse, more liberal and less conservative than older adults, the high degree of opposition to reparations is noteworthy. Even 38 percent of young Blacks in the survey did not support reparations. This is particularly significant, given that young people have been energized by the Black Lives Matter movement and are involved in all forms of social activism. And even as young people have been attracted to Bernie Sanders’ campaign, neither Sanders nor Clinton — nor any major candidate other than Green Party candidate Jill Stein — supports reparations. Voices such as Ta-Nehisi Coates have advocated for the compensation for Black people for slavery, but the issue is widely viewed as divisive, in a nation that still has its head in the sand on race, and has failed to come to terms with America’s legacy of high crimes, injustices and violations committed against Black people — both past and present.
The Black Lives Matter movement — propelled to prominence by the killing of young Black bodies — has led to a coalescing by some in society on the issue of race and the criminal justice system. A process of educating society on the racial inequities in America and the harm of institutional racism is unfolding. However, the question remains as to what it will take — what event or series of events — for the tide of public opinion to turn on the question of reparations for slavery. Given the existence of millennial racism, and unresolved issues of white privilege among white millennials — not to mention the racial hostility still exhibited by young whites against Black people on college campuses and elsewhere — there is much work to be done.
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I had one great grandfather who owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. The other great grandfather fought with the Union in the Army of the Potomac. Both survived the war. I figure one cancels the other if we are doing this based on ancestry.
Haven’t they had enough reparations, already? I’d say millions of white men and women working an extra day a week to pay for freebies is way more than enough. The taxes Americans have been paying the last 7 years have been astronomical despite the taqiyyan liar’s claims that he lowered them. Talked to one guy who did pretty good that told me he paid over $100,000 in taxes in 5 years time. Sorry but that sounds pretty damn high to me...
That’s because every single one of them is a racist, commmiting untold microaggressions and occasionally milliaggressions and everything White America has done for Blacks is insufficient and always will be. Deal wit’ it.
You’re right.
So will there be a giant government database of ancestry created, to try to sort all of this out??
Or will this be done based on subjective judgements about someone’s race or ethnicity, and the judgement is that you have to pay if you appear to be caucasian????
What about all the Latinos in this country? They had nothing to do with slavery. Do they have to pay? What about all the Asians and other assorted immigrants who have arrived here in recent decades???
They also conveniently forget the wite slavery that existed here as well. Particularly the irish.
Why would young people want to pay more than there parents already have? We do get credit for welfare and free houses and stuff since 1968 don’t we? Obama phone? This needs to stop anyway. Been long enough to get them on their feet?
No loving whie person does either. My roots came here in the 1920s, well after slavery was gone.
Considering ow kuch money the black commuit received frkm all of us in wealth redistribution of all different kinds, including govt jobs, jobs set aside for blacks, no white men apply, and such,
They have and continue to get, reparations daily. And they are totally ungrateful for it and believe they are entitled to it.
The slaves deserved an apology and more but you can’t apologize to people who are dead. Their “descendants” are also descendants of other non-slave families and even other races and have never felt the touch of a whip but live quite well and if not is usually their own doing.
Living.
David Chappelle nailed how Reparations would work in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs
Muhammad Ali: “Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat.”
reparations should be a one way ticket to africa.
Any reparations should and most probably will come with a bullet attached.
Enough is enough.
What’s a slave? Point one out to me. I don’t see any. Have never seen one. Never owned one either. Never known anyone who’s ever owned one or been one or their grandparents been one. So don’t demand I pay for something I’ve never bought or had any intention of buying.
Slavery gets sh!t done. Put the gibmedats to work.
Of course they don’t want reparations. Then that means the gravy train of free stuff from the government might end. If reparations were given, what excuses would the perpetually aggrieved have for failures in the black community?
Approx. 500,000 soldiers including both sides died as a result of the war. The male population of the country was probably about 16-17 million or about half the nat. total. That means about one out of thirty males died, not one out of five.
agreed.
the youngest group, 18-21, is majority non white, at 52 percent.
That’s all she wrote folks.
If they approved reparations, I would claim 10 dependents, then face the music tax time. Worth going to jail over.
I was surprised FORTY percent of black youth DIDN’T want reparations.
that’s something.
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