Title: 6 Eye-Opening Facts About How Differently Black And White People View Race | HuffPost
Headings: 6 Eye-Opening Facts About How Differently Black And White People View Race
6 Eye-Opening Facts About How Differently Black And White People View Race
2. Black and white America’s assessment of President Barack Obama’s impact on race relations widely differ.
5. Black people experience discrimination at a much higher rate than whites.
6. Racial gaps persist when it comes to household income and poverty.
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Content: Black people believe institutional racism is a critical problem while more white people say individual instances of discrimination are a bigger concern. An overwhelming number of white people, 66 percent, say that individual instances of discrimination in America are a bigger problem than institutional racism while only 19 percent of white people feel the latter is a larger concern. However, the black opinion is more evenly distributed (48 percent and 40 percent, respectively). Despite the large number of white people who don’t see institutional racism as a problem, it has a real effect on black men and women who believe they are treated less fairly than whites in dealing with the police (84 percent), when applying for a loan mortgage (66 percent), in the workplace (64 percent), in stores and restaurants (49 percent) and when voting (43 percent). “Across all of these realms, whites are much less likely than blacks to perceive unequal treatment,” the study says. Pew
The chart above shows the striking differences in the number of black people who say they experience discrimination more frequently than whites. 5. Black people experience discrimination at a much higher rate than whites. Around 71 percent of black people say that they have been treated unfairly because of their race: 47 percent say people have acted suspicious of them, 45 percent say people have treated them as if they are not smart and 18 percent say they have been unfairly stopped by police.