Posted on 04/15/2022 5:11:16 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Black adults in America are nearly 40 points more likely than the general population to say that their racial background is central to the way they think about themselves, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, and how Black Americans view their racial identity affects their sense of connection with the Black community locally, in the US and around the world.
Overall, 76% of Black adults say that being Black is extremely (54%) or very (22%) important to how they think about themselves. Majorities across demographic and political subsets of the Black population feel this way.
"Whether Black people were born in the United States or outside of it, whether Black people identified as Black alone, Hispanic, or multiracial in addition to being Black, or whether they were younger or older... across all of those intersections, the idea that being Black was very or extremely important to how Black Americans view themselves, that was a very consistent finding for us," said Kiana Cox, a research associate at the Pew Research Center and an author of the report.
Although majorities across subsets of the Black population consider being Black central to their identity, there is some variation. Among those who are Black and do not have Hispanic heritage, 78% consider being Black deeply important to their identity, dropping to 58% among Black people with Hispanic heritage and 57% among people who are Black and multiracial. Black women (80%) are more likely to consider their Blackness important to identity than Black men (72%), and older Black adults are more likely than younger generations to say that being Black is extremely or very important to how they think about themselves (63% among those ages 18 to 29, compared with 76% among 30- to 49-year-olds...
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The problem in a nutshell.
70 years of pounding the fact that they have black skin and it’s become them.
Their racism is the core of their problem.
Maybe they should trust try being people instead of being BLACK people. No one else cares nearly as much as they do.
Black racism is a massive issue America has to deal with.
And all because the British loved sugar and rum but were too lazy to grow/process it themselves.
And the shoe put on the other foot, DO I SEE WHITENESS AS CORE TO MY IDENTITY. Definitely NO.
As I am growing older, I am starting to have thoughts along the lines that maybe, just maybe Robert C. Byrd was correct.
Have you ever noticed how blacks only want to help (charities, fundraisers, college entrances, business capital, etc.) other blacks? Instead of helping someone based on need, its always based on skin color first.
Hard to deal with when you can’t have an honest discussion about it in most places.
Without a doubt race is an issue that isn’t going away and whites pretending otherwise does us or our nation any favors.
So, their skin tone is more important than most if not all other characteristics. Hmm.
I think I see a (superficial) problem.
I am of light skin tone, white/ Caucasian if you will. If my focus culturally socially and personally were my skin tone/ amount of melanin/ “color”, would not I be a racist, fundamentally?
Wonder about a poll that would ask about identifying as American. Until those numbers swap, the country is sick.
Probably. But how does it compare to other groups?
Do Whites and Asians feel the same?
How about Jews or Catholics?
The data point is interesting, but I have no idea what it means.
I’m having trouble grasping this concept.
Now if only white people could figure this out about their own identities...
Maybe why so many blacks think whites sit around all day thinking about how to oppress them.
see post #12
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