Americans are divided over whether NFL player protests during the National Anthem are a respectful way to attract attention to racial inequality nationwide, according to a new PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Friday. Nearly half — 48 percent — of U.S. adults said these demonstrations were a respectful way to draw […] Read more »
Only 27% of Americans Think O.J. Simpson Will Regain Celebrity Status
Few Americans think O.J. Simpson will regain his celebrity status when he gets out of prison, after his 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping. Regardless of whether or not they think Simpson was guilty of murder in 1995, most Americans think he will be ignored. … Looking back, most […] Read more »
CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests
Americans are sharply divided over whether NFL players taking a knee during the National Anthem are doing the right thing to express their views, but a majority agree that President Donald Trump did the wrong thing by criticizing their actions, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. CONT. […] Read more »
Focus Group Reveals Democrats ‘Have a Lot of Work to Do’ With Black Millennials
“Angry,” “exasperated,” “worried,” “stressed” and “scared” were the responses from back-to-back focus groups here of a combined 20 African-American millennials, who were asked to describe how they feel about American politics. These young voters from a key 2016 battleground state also expressed deep pessimism about the political process and their […] Read more »
Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals
Even before Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, activists began mobilizing. … Despite past failure of Congress to pass immigration reform, some signals out of Washington suggest the possibility for a bipartisan solution. Whether Congress will act likely depends […] Read more »
The Trump Voter Paradox
Roy Moore’s decisive victory over Luther Strange in the Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday in Alabama confirms — as I have reported before — that many Republican voters have a strong sense of white identity, that they harbor high levels of racial resentment and that they sometimes exhibit authoritarian […] Read more »