Reparations and Black Americans’ Attitudes About Race

According to a recent report in the Washington Post, at least four Democratic presidential candidates — Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro and Marianne Williamson — in one way or the other favor the idea of African-American reparations. …

My colleagues Jeff Jones and Mohamed Younis recently reviewed new Gallup data on views of race in America today. Taken as a whole, the results show that black Americans express very low levels of satisfaction with the status of how blacks are treated in this country, believe that blacks still face discrimination across a number of everyday situations and that black-white relations will be a problem for many years to come. …

Black Americans also clearly believe that government actions should be taken to help bring about change. CONT.

Frank Newport, Gallup