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11/28/2007: "Blacks believe black poverty due to irresponsibility"

Williams wrote, "53 percent of black Americans now agree that 'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition.'" The Pew poll also found that 61 percent of blacks believe that the values of lower-class blacks have become "more different" from those of middle-class blacks in recent years. African-Americans now seem to agree with a majority of whites that black poverty is a problem of individual responsibility rather than a social issue.

Whites especially seem to think the races have reached equal status -- a whopping 71 percent agree that blacks who can't get ahead are responsible for their troubles. Yet for every poll trumpeting that Americans believe we're moving toward racial equality, there's a sociological study proving that the opposite is happening. The same week the PEW/NPR study was announced, the Wall Street Journal reported that blacks born into the middle class are "far more likely than whites to earn less than their parents ... Children of black parents earning in the middle 20 percent of all families in the late 1960s had a 69 percent chance of earning less than their parents, the study found. For white children, that chance was just 32 percent."

[ Somewhere, there's an illusion that multiculturalism works, and we'll do anything but face the facts. ]

http://sacdcweb01.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/28/race_poll/