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Most Black Americans Believe Racial Conspiracy Theories About U.S. Institutions
Pew Research ^ | JUNE 10, 2024 | Kiana Cox

Posted on 06/11/2024 5:35:32 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

Most Black adults say the prison (74%), political (67%) and economic (65%) systems in the U.S., among others, are designed to hold Black people back, according to a new Pew Research Center survey in September 2023.

For example, 82% of Black adults say they have heard the following racial conspiracy theory about the prison system: Black people are more likely than White people to be incarcerated because prisons want to make money on the backs of Black people. Many Black adults (74%) say this racial conspiracy theory is true and happening in the U.S. today.

For this report, we surveyed 4,736 Black adults in the U.S. from Sept. 12 to 24, 2023, in English and Spanish. Here are some other key findings about Black Americans and racial conspiracy theories.

About seven-in-ten Black Americans say the criminal justice system was designed to hold Black people back. 76% of Black adults say the racial conspiracy theory that Black public officials are singled out and discredited in a way that doesn’t happen to White public officials is true and happening today.

About two-thirds (67%) of Black Americans say racial conspiracy theories in business, in the form of targeted marketing of luxury products to Black people in order to bankrupt them, are true and happening today.

55% of Black adults say racial conspiracy theories in the form of secret and nonconsensual medical experiments like the Tuskegee study are true and happening to Black people today.

55% of Black adults say the racial conspiracy theory that the government encourages single motherhood and the elimination of Black men from Black families is true and happening today.

51% of Black adults say the racial conspiracy theory that the government promotes birth control and abortion to reduce the size of the Black population is true and happening today.

(Excerpt) Read more at pewresearch.org ...


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To: Zhang Fei
Many black churches push this. Like Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago.

It's kind of hard to overlook it if it is mixed in with the Word of God and screamed aloud every Sunday.

41 posted on 06/11/2024 7:08:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Zhang Fei

It’s never ‘their’ fault.


42 posted on 06/11/2024 7:31:50 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
...but most now understand that the Demagogic Party is an equal opportunity oppressor, abusing the legal system to railroad people into bankruptcy and/or prison.

43 posted on 06/11/2024 7:46:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Of course! That’s what they have been told their ENTIRE lives.


44 posted on 06/11/2024 7:56:15 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Zhang Fei

The other day I was at a pool with over 120 people and 3 of them were black. There were not any problems at all and no one was treated any differently.

I did tell my wife, “You have to hand it to them. There is no way I would go to a pool party if these numbers were reversed.”


45 posted on 06/11/2024 8:07:54 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“You mean O.J. was set up?”

O.J. didn’t do it, his son did it and you can check that all out on YouTube or other sites, but they never did a DNA sample on his son or it wasn’t tested and it has led several investigators to believe that it was a cover-up because OJ did not want his son going to jail.


46 posted on 06/11/2024 8:21:07 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Zhang Fei

They’ve had these ideas driven into their brains the second they learn to speak.


47 posted on 06/11/2024 10:15:44 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: newfreep
When you take the IQ Bell Curve and nominally set an IQ of 120 as minimum to successfully become a medical doctor, the claims of being "under represented" fall flat. You don't expect medical doctors as a subset of the general population to have the same racial/ethnic distribution as the general population.
48 posted on 06/11/2024 11:36:05 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Racketeer
My high school basketball team was playing a championship game. I usually don't care, but I wanted to support some of my friends on the team. The opposing team was from a predominantly black high school. The opposing team was all black. When I entered the gym, I was only one of about 20 white people in a gym filled wall to wall with blacks. I questioned my sanity at choosing that situation. There was some rowdy behavior, but I got out unscathed.

Another "event" occurred on a Friday night. The first Friday of the month. I arrived at the skating rink. The parking lot was full of security people. After buying my ticket, I went inside. Wall to wall black people. No real room to skate. I exited and was given a "rain check" for another night. I asked the security present why they were present. The answer was "mom's night". The first Friday of the month after the welfare checks come out, the moms drop their kids off at the skating rink. Eeeks! I didn't know or expect that. We had a group of black regulars who were fine skaters. Always a pleasure to be on the floor with them. It's not that way on "mom's night". Lots of beginners packed tight, stumbling, flailing. No thanks.

49 posted on 06/11/2024 11:48:42 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: newfreep

Did you read the article? At least two lines in the excerpt are beliefs that are true, at least in effect. The only real dispute is over how widespread the intention to have these effects is.


50 posted on 06/12/2024 1:09:36 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: JoJo354

I blame the welfare state that forced fathers out of the house so the mothers could get more benefits for their kids. You kinda can’t blame them and it has become a way of life.


Especially over the past decade, many black men have realized this and become vocal about it - being driven out of their kids’ lives. My impression was that this has driven a lot of the difference in support for Trump between black men and black women.


51 posted on 06/12/2024 1:17:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Did you see my post & grasp the Bell Curve IQ chart?

THAT was my point!


52 posted on 06/12/2024 1:38:21 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: newfreep

Yes. I’m saying it is not a matter of lack of intelligence to figure out the patterns for things which are actually occurring.


53 posted on 06/12/2024 2:28:37 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Good grief, you missed the point. Again.


54 posted on 06/12/2024 2:34:52 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: lepton

That’s true IMO. The left seems to want to keep black families split and it is really hurting the black community.


55 posted on 06/13/2024 6:24:22 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We are the revolution....)
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