… A majority of Americans agree with the underlying conclusion that racial inequities in U.S. society need to be addressed. Gallup has just reported that for the first time in over a quarter century of asking the question, a majority of Americans say that new civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against Black Americans. …
But we find much less agreement with a number of the specific proposed remedies that would produce the most significant changes in the situation, those that have been called “big ideas” to address racial inequality. This leaves a challenge for social and political leaders — translating the widely existing attitudinal sentiment about the need for change in the nation’s racial structure into support for specific programs that have the highest probability of actually bringing about real change. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup