The outcry after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, decided not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men has refocused Americans’ attention on the continuing, contentious issue of race relations in the U.S. Gallup has measured black and white Americans’ attitudes about race for more than 50 years, and both groups continue to look at race relations in significantly different ways, even today.
Gallup data help show how black Americans’ and white Americans’ views continue to differ in four crucial areas: views of race relations in general, views of discrimination against blacks, views on the need for new civil rights laws and more government intervention and finally, views of the police and justice system. CONT.
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