Less than half of Americans believe that racial minorities face significant discrimination in reversal of previous trends.
Only 40% of the US believe that blacks and Hispanics face “substantial” or “substantial” discrimination, according to a new poll highlighting a reversal of perceptions previously held.
And, in a release Thursday, the Associated Press’ Public Issues Research Center found that 30% of those surveyed felt the same way about Asians, with only 10% believing white people being discriminated against.
“The number of people who say Asians and Black people have experienced a significant amount of discrimination have experienced a significant amount of discrimination since the AP-NORC poll conducted in April 2021,” according to a statement on the NORC website.
The vote continues to attack initiatives that US President Donald Trump promote diversity in the university and workplaces, and attack pressure agencies that are not in line with his political agenda in the name of fighting leftist ideas.
In the spring of 2021, amid a massive protest against racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 60% of those voted believed black people were facing “substantial” discrimination in the United States. That figure is currently falling below 50%.
Around 74% of black people say their community continues to face considerable discrimination, while only 39% of white respondents say black people face serious discrimination.
Americans have also become more skeptical of the efforts of businesses to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, often referred to as DEIs. Many large companies are beginning to roll back such efforts.
Between 33% and 41%, the DEI did not make any difference, while a quarter said it was likely to increase discrimination against minorities.
“Whenever you’re in a space where you see a black girl on an engineering course, you’re only seen to get there because of those factors,” Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat from Compton, California, told The Associated Press. “It’s all been denied by people who say, ‘You’re just here to fill the quota.’ ”
But the Trump administration goes far beyond criticism of Day’s efforts, exercising a broad definition of the term putting pressure on institutions and organizations he sees as hostile to his political agenda. The president, for example, threatened to withhold federal disaster aid from states that are not consistent with efforts to roll back anti-discrimination measures and open probes to companies with DEI policies.
The majority of those voted believe undocumented immigrants face discrimination as the Trump administration pursues a massive deportation program that has caused fear in immigrant communities across the country.
“Most 58% believe that immigrants without legal status also face discrimination, which is the highest amount of identity groups,” AP-NORC said. “Four in ten people say immigrants who live legally in the US also face this level of discrimination.”
Polls found that over half of Muslims believe Muslims face considerable discrimination, and about a third of them say the same thing about Jews.
