{"id":598902,"date":"2021-07-21T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598902"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:35:29","slug":"race-relations-hit-new-low-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/race-relations-hit-new-low-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Relations Hit New Low, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frace-relations-hit-new-low-poll-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/George-Floyds-brother-Philonise-Floyd-hugs-an-activist-scaled-e1626876639497.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Race relations have hit a new low, with the majority of black and whites calling it \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d bad,&nbsp; according to a Wednesday Gallup poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/352457\/ratings-black-white-relations-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> 57% of blacks and whites felt race relations are \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d bad, while 42% called them \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d good. In comparison, 55% of respondents said relations were \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d bad in 2020, and 44% said they were \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d good.<\/p>\n<p>The murder of George Floyd and the nationwide protests, riots and calls for racial justice have all contributed to the decline in positive relations, Gallop said. The poll had a 10-point gap between blacks and whites, with 43% of whites calling relations \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d good.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, 33% of blacks called relations \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d good, according to the poll. Gallup said blacks were \u201coversampled\u201d in the survey which is weighted to their correct proportion of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Among U.S. adults, 57% say race relations will eventually be worked out, 40% disagreed.&nbsp; The amount of optimism Americans hold has stayed roughly the same since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Gallup poll was conducted through telephone interviews between June 1-July 5, with a random sample of 1,381 adults, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The election of former President Barack Obama in 2008 saw a minor rise with 67% shortly saying relations will be improved.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/11\/25\/ben-carson-race-relations-have-gotten-worse-under-obama-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ben Carson: Race Relations Have \u2018Gotten Worse\u2019 Under Obama [AUDIO])<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although, the number of hopeful Americans didn\u2019t stay that high for too long. During the last half of Obama\u2019s administration, about 70% of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/12\/race-relations-joe-biden-barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in July 2016 that race relations were bad, a New York Times\/CBS News poll showed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.309352517986\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">America has never lived up to its founding promise of equality for all, but we\u2019ve never stopped trying. Today, I\u2019ll take action to advance racial equity and push us closer to that more perfect union we\u2019ve always strived to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1354056690027683841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden has tried to improve relations within the federal government by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/biden-executive-order-crt-diversity-equity-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing<\/a> an executive order in June that ensures that every agency will conduct race-conscious diversity training and hiring. The executive order directs agencies to develop plans to eliminate barriers to success faced by \u201cunder-served employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order says federal hiring will prioritize \u201ccommunities that have historically faced employment discrimination and professional barriers, including people of color, women, first-generation professionals and immigrants, individuals with disabilities, [and] LGBTQ+ individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order requires diversity training where male employees are sometimes required to recite \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201cmale privilege\u201d statements.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/biden-tulsa-race-massacre-oklahoma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">traveled<\/a> to Oklahoma in June to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The massacre took place May 31-June 1 in 1921, where a mob of armed white residents attacked a prosperous black community, killing as many as 300 blacks and burning up to 1,200 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race relations have hit a new low, with the majority of black and whites calling it \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d bad,\u00a0 according to a Wednesday Gallup poll.The poll said 57% of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}