Posted on 12/23/2015 6:33:54 AM PST by HomerBohn
According to a new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, race relations in Obama's America are worse than they've been at any point in the last 20 years. Only 34% of Americans now say that race relations are "fairly good" or "very good," down substantially from the 77% who believed in racial unity immediately after Obama took office.
"This is a very sad chart," said pollster Bill McInturff. "It's a reminder of what a continued rupture point in our country race is."
Tellingly, many news reports noted that the last time Americans saw race relations with this kind of pessimism was in October 1995, just after a Los Angeles jury decided that O.J. Simpson was not guilty of killing his ex-wife and a friend in cold blood.
Today's decline in racial unity began, according to the pollsters, after the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and has continued to plummet with other high-profile black deaths, many of which were at the hands of white police officers.
Now enough has been written about these cases to fill a thousand books, and it's clear that whites and blacks - to say nothing of Republicans and Democrats - have a much different view of these incidents. The Martin shooting, for instance, was seen as murder by the majority of African-Americans. The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson was seen in the same light, and the grand jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson was regarded as proof of a racist system.
But let's go back to the Trial of the Century for a moment. Anyone who was old enough to follow the trial of O.J. Simpson remembers how blacks and whites were divided when it came to Simpson's guilt. Whites saw the obvious truth: O.J.'s blood was at the crime scene. The victims' blood was in his car and on his driveway and on his socks. This was proven beyond any contention by DNA evidence. And those who watched the trial closely know that the DNA evidence was only part of a colossal mountain of evidence that proved Simpson's guilt - not beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond ALL doubt.
Simpson's "dream team" of defense lawyers, however, managed to invent a ludicrous fantasy wherein dozens (if not hundreds) of LAPD officers conspired to frame the football star for murder. And not only did this fantasy ring true to the mostly-black jury, it somehow convinced the majority of blacks in the country at large to view Simpson as an innocent man.
Why? Because one of the police officers once used the N-word.
The entirety of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2015 is built upon fantasies that are no less ridiculous than those that secured Simpson's tragic acquittal. Yet here we are, all these years later, being asked to accept this kind of nonsense because of America's controversial history of racism.
"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is as absurd as "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." And if whites must swallow imaginary conspiracies in order to get along with blacks, then 34% may be a high-water mark in the years to come.
This cancerous growth has done everything possible to fan the flames of hatred which are easily ignited in a segment of our society that remains illiterate and prone to violent behavior.
Turn up that rap music....it's the new classical norm.
We know who’s to blame for that, don’t we?
You really are a lame-brain, Bill, if you think this is all the chart says.
The jubilant response of the black community to OJ’s verdict was no different than the jubilant response of muzzies with the 9-11 attacks on America.
I think it is highly debatable how good race relations are/were. Of course the Obama administration has been very adept at stoking the fire but I also think that many whites are finally waking to the one way street it has all become.
Remember how whites rioted after the OJ verdict? Me neither.
To be fair, a few years later scores (or maybe 100s) of L.A. gangbangers were released from prison because of widespread police falsification of evidence. Most of them were no doubt guilty like OJ, but the cops couldn’t resist making sure they got the conviction. I think this is why the jury was able to believe the cops planted evidence, not the use of the ‘N word’. It was common knowledge in the ghetto and a huge shock when it came out to those not in the ghetto.
This of course, has nothing to do with the souring of race relations during the presidency of Dear Leader.
Try this fun way to mock people who praise Obama:
“More Americans think race relations were better under George W. Bush. Including more African-Americans.”
There is a difference.
Bingo!
And this is why negroes are converting to Islam. They don’t know anything about the perverted Koran, it’s just a way to get whitey.
Yet another reason to fear more than one of them following you down a dark street.
Relations between africans and Whites worsen, in large part because of policies of the race-pimps of the Left and of the african central government running DC. The Black Lives Matter movement, the recent riots, and the racial disturbances on campus play nicely into the hands of BO and his gang of race pimps.
Fact: Worst Race Relations since OJ.
Reason: Hillary GOTV 2016 is working.
Simple answer to this. Separation. No more race issues, no more poor legislation based on racial placation, no more social justice, no more race based quotas, no more racial profiling.
Black people get their own part of the country, with no interference, no influence, and all this becomes a bad memory.
It’s not just black attitudes towards whites that has soured. It’s the other way around too. The mountain of guilt whites have been carrying around has been chiiped away by black violence, racism, and double standards blacks enjoy that have put the everyday safety, not to mention dreams, of whites in jeapordy. Black lives matter but over the last 30 years, they are all that have mattered. All lives matter even if black racists don’t want it to be so.
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