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09/28/2008: "Blacks think whites discriminate more against them than whites believe they do"

Four of every 10 white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, calling them "lazy," or "violent" or blaming them for the ills of black America, according to the AP-Yahoo poll. Such surveys draw criticism from whites who say the numbers are exaggerated and from blacks who say the numbers are too low.

When asked "how much discrimination against blacks" exists, just 10 percent of whites said "a lot" and 45 percent said "some."

Among blacks, 57 percent said "a lot" and all but a fraction of the rest said "some."

[ All this could be down to blacks finding it implausible that whites would not be discriminating against them. After all, studies show blacks regularly discriminate against other blacks themselves. Really everyone should discriminate, and whether that is positively or negatively really just depends on the situation. Everyone with natural instincts prefers their own kind. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_us/the_racial_divide