Poll: Fewer People Think Race Relations Have Improved Under Obama

August 24th, 2011 - By IndigoBlack

According to new USA Today/Gallup Poll results released today, 35 percent of Americans surveyed believe that race relations under President Obama have improved. While it’s nice to see the hope in those results, the findings are actually down from a similar survey taken in 2009, which had 41 percent of Americans saying race relations had been better than in the past. A decline in the number of people that think we’re all mixing and mingling well is not a good look, especially since 23 percent (not TOO far off from that 35 percent) of Americans polled at the beginning of this month actually feel race relations have gotten worse.

With Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorial being dedicated on the 28 of this month, it’s pretty disappointing to hear that more and more people aren’t seeing or feeling an improvement in the way we coexist based on our color. According to Gallup, it was predicted the day after President Obama’s election by a whopping 70 percent of people that race relations would get better. But with folks in the public eye calling President Obama “boy” and using the word “hizzouse” to describe the White House based on the guests he invites (which is his damn business), it’s clear that tact and race relations aren’t really on the up and up. But there’s good news! An optimistic 52 percent of Americans believe that President Obama’s election will help to improve race relations in the future. Well, we’ll wait and see about that…

Do you think race relations have gotten better, worse or stayed the same?

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  • greyeyed girl

    no I think it has gotten worse, look at all of the racist crap all over the net and in the work place…

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  • http://www.thesupersistah.com the Super Sistah

    Race relations has definitely improved . That is a fact. Now openly racists groups (Tea Party) feel no need to hide. They hate, condemn and malign openly. That is good for the rest of us. I rather have my enemies in plain sight and not covered with white sheets and PC politics.

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  • 360degrees

    Race relations are tense. More and more media outlets are being very open about their disdain for blacks. Look at the nonsense with ESPN's " what if Michael Vick were white". It doesn't get anymore blatant than that. They white wash our images in magazines if we look too black or not quite white enough. We perpetuate the stereotypes that other races see. I can't blame white folks for the state we are in. There is too much info out there for us to claim ignorance. Go out and get that knowledge be better than you are. Aspire to loftier goals and reach them. Black people are capable of great things we prove it all the time. Unfortunately thats not the majority of us. We are lost and the only people who can find out who we are and could be is us. I have faith that we will be better than we are now its just going to take more effort by us a people.

  • Janay

    Race relations are worse between black and white cause white people became instantely intimidated by a black family in white house. Also race relations are worse between black and black cause black men got cocky and felt they “arrived” instantly after president Obama was elected. Crazy

  • love01

    You are so right, and well written.

  • love01

    You are so write, and well written.

  • love01

    Just because we have a biracial president, does not mean race relations are going to get better. If anything they have become worst, because people in America do not want to face the ugly truth of our past. They are going to make the life of a black person even harder, because of President Obama. He holds the highest position in the land, so he's not getting credit from anyone. Even black people are hating on the President. Race relations get better when we confront the truths of this country,education ourselves on the history of all races, and sit down and have an open dialog. I try and talk to black people about our history, and they get upset.

  • http://afrocentrictimes.blogspot.com pmccray

    No . . if anything the simmering racist climate has finally come to a boil and is overflowing. How any sane person can honestly say things have improved is truly clueless. The mountain of indignities the President has silently endured is proof enough that not one thing has changed. In articles written by corporate run media the President is always addressed as Obama, his title is rarely used, he's been called all forms of racist epithets even a liar by his peers and supposedly learned colleagues. The crashing of the first White House affair by knuckle dragging attention seekers was the epitome of rude, reflecting the lack of respect President Obama is given as the most important man of our nation and in history.

    Racism, in some , seems to be a generational curse or sickness handed down through some families as you would an inheritance. When you see the most learned, of our population lower themselves to the most base of human nature how can you possibly think that racism is dead? It's alive and well thriving like some pus filled cancer in our most honorable and learned halls. A disease that can't be cured and will never go away as long as it is continually taught to the younger generation. Racism, after all, is a learned behavior not a natural one.

    • Kat

      @pmccray

      Speak on the truth!!!!

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