Is Racism in America Holding Obama Back?
September 21st, 2008
Be very afraid...of ignorance.
I found this article that deals with the question at the Telegraph so it has an international perspective. Check it out and let me know what you think in the common section.
The poll that found that one third of white Democrats agreed with negative stereotypes about black people being “violent”, “lazy” or always “complaining”.
With the election deadlocked, these are voters that Mr Obama must win if he is to become the first black US president. Many originally backed Hillary Clinton, his former Democrat presidential rival.
Polling analysts calculated that Mr Obama, who currently enjoys a slender two-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain, would be six points higher in the polls were white racism not a factor. At polling time, that could mean the difference between a cliffhanger election and a landslide.
Paul Sniderman, a political scientist at Stanford University who helped conduct the analysis, said: “There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn’t mean there’s only a few bigots.”
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