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Associated Press
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
Fewer Americans see discrimination as anti-DEI push gains traction, AP-NORC poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face 'a great deal' or 'quite a bit' of discrimination in the United States, according to a poll. That's a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they're intended to help, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups. The findings suggest Americans' views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago, when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold. pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI. Now, it's clear that views are changing as well as company policies. Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways. 'Anytime they're in a space that they're not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course ... they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,' Brider said. 'It's all negated by someone saying, 'You're only here to meet a quota.'' Reversal in views of racial discrimination The poll finds 45% of U.S. adults think Black people face high levels of discrimination, down from 60% in the spring of 2021. There was a similar drop in views about the prevalence of serious discrimination against Asian people, which fell from 45% in the 2021 poll — conducted a month after the Atlanta spa shootings, which killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent — to 32% in the current survey. There's no question the country has backtracked from its 'so-called racial reckoning' and the experiences of particular groups such as Black people are being downplayed, said Phillipe Copeland, a professor at Boston University School of Social Work. Americans' views about discrimination haven't shifted when it comes to all groups, though. Just under half of U.S. adults, 44%, now say Hispanic people face at least 'quite a bit of discrimination,' and only 15% say this about white people. Both numbers are similar to when the question was last asked in April 2021. Divisions on the impact of DEI on Black and Hispanic people The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it's intended to help. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women and Asian people. Many — between 33% and 41% — don't think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of U.S. adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups. Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them. About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people, compared with about one-quarter of white adults. There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people. Among white people, it's mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same. Pete Parra, a 59-year-old resident of Gilbert, Arizona, thinks that DEI is making things harder for racial minorities now. He worries about how his two adult Hispanic sons will be treated when they apply for work. 'I'm not saying automatically just give it to my sons,' said Parra, who leans toward the Democratic Party. But he's concerned that now factors other than merit may take priority. 'If they get passed over for something,' he said, 'they're not going to know (why).' About 3 in 10 say DEI increases discrimination against white people The poll shows that Americans aren't any more likely to think white people face discrimination than they were in 2021. And more than half think DEI doesn't make a difference when it comes to white people or men. But a substantial minority — about 3 in 10 U.S. adults — think DEI increases discrimination against white people. Even more white adults, 39%, hold that view, compared with 21% of Hispanic adults and 13% of Black adults. The recent political focus on DEI has included the idea that white people are more often overlooked for career and educational opportunities because of their race. John Bartus, a 66-year-old registered Republican in Twin Falls, Idaho, says that DEI might have been 'a good thing for all races of people, but it seems like it's gone far left.' It's his impression that DEI compels companies to hire people based on their race or if they identify as LGBTQ+. 'The most qualified person ought to get a job based on their merit or based on their educational status,' Bartus said. Brider, the Black California resident, objects to the notion that white people face the same level of discrimination as Black people. But while she thinks the aims of DEI are admirable, she also sees the reality as flawed. 'I do think there needs to be something that ensures that there is a good cross-section of people in the workplace,' Brider said. 'I just don't know what that would look like, to be honest.' ___ The AP-NORC poll of 1,437 adults was conducted July 10-14, using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
Al Arabiya
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
How Americans' views of racial discrimination have shifted since 2021, according to AP-NORC polling
Slightly less than half of US adults believe that Black people face a great deal or quite a bit of discrimination in the United States according to a new poll. That's a decline from the solid majority 60 percent who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021 months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they're intended to help according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups. The findings suggest Americans' views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold. Since then, many of those companies have reversed themselves and retreated from their diversity practices, a trend that's accelerated this year under pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI. Now, it's clear that views are changing as well as company policies. Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways. 'Anytime they're in a space that they're not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course…they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,' Brider said. 'It's all negated by someone saying, 'You're only here to meet a quota.'' Reversal in views of racial discrimination. The new poll finds 45 percent of US adults think Black people face high levels of discrimination, down from 60 percent in the spring of 2021. There was a similar drop in views about the prevalence of serious discrimination against Asian people, which fell from 45 percent in the 2021 poll – conducted a month after the Atlanta spa shootings which killed eight people including six women of Asian descent – to 32 percent in the current survey. There's no question the country has backtracked from its so-called racial reckoning and the experiences of particular groups such as Black people are being downplayed, said Phillipe Copeland, a professor at Boston University School of Social Work. Americans' views about discrimination haven't shifted when it comes to all groups, though. Just under half of US adults, 44 percent, now say Hispanic people face at least quite a bit of discrimination and only 15 percent say this about white people. Both numbers are similar to when the question was last asked in April 2021. Divisions on the impact of DEI on Black and Hispanic people. The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it's intended to help. About 4 in 10 US adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women, and Asian people. Many – between 33 percent and 41 percent – don't think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of US adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups. Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them. About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people compared with about one-quarter of white adults. There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people. Among white people, it's mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same. Pete Parra, a 59-year-old resident of Gilbert, Arizona, thinks that DEI is making things harder for racial minorities now. He worries about how his two adult Hispanic sons will be treated when they apply for work. 'I'm not saying automatically just give it to my sons,' said Parra, who leans toward the Democratic Party. But he's concerned that now factors other than merit may take priority. 'If they get passed over for something,' he said, 'they're not going to know (why).' About 3 in 10 say DEI increases discrimination against white people. The new poll shows that Americans aren't any more likely to think white people face discrimination than they were in 2021. And more than half think DEI doesn't make a difference when it comes to white people or men. But a substantial minority – about 3 in 10 US adults – think DEI increases discrimination against white people. Even more white adults, 39 percent, hold that view compared with 21 percent of Hispanic adults and 13 percent of Black adults. The recent political focus on DEI has included the idea that white people are more often overlooked for career and educational opportunities because of their race. John Bartus, a 66-year-old registered Republican in Twin Falls, Idaho, says that DEI might have been a good thing for all races of people, but it seems like it's gone far left. It's his impression that DEI compels companies to hire people based on their race or if they identify as LGBTQ+. 'The most qualified person ought to get a job based on their merit or based on their educational status,' Bartus said. Brider, the Black California resident, objects to the notion that white people face the same level of discrimination as Black people. But while she thinks the aims of DEI are admirable, she also sees the reality as flawed. 'I do think there needs to be something that ensures that there is a good cross-section of people in the workplace,' Brider said. 'I just don't know what that would look like to be honest.' ___ The AP-NORC poll of 1437 adults was conducted July 10-14 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the US population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
The Independent
12 hours ago
- Politics
- The Independent
How Americans' views of racial discrimination have shifted since 2021, according to AP-NORC polling
Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face 'a great deal' or 'quite a bit' of discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll. That's a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they're intended to help, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups. The findings suggest Americans' views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago, when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold. Since then, many of those companies have reversed themselves and retreated from their diversity practices, a trend that's accelerated this year under pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI. Now, it's clear that views are changing as well as company policies. Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways. 'Anytime they're in a space that they're not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course ... they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,' Brider said. 'It's all negated by someone saying, 'You're only here to meet a quota.'' Reversal in views of racial discrimination The new poll finds 45% of U.S. adults think Black people face high levels of discrimination, down from 60% in the spring of 2021. There was a similar drop in views about the prevalence of serious discrimination against Asian people, which fell from 45% in the 2021 poll — conducted a month after the Atlanta spa shootings, which killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent — to 32% in the current survey. There's no question the country has backtracked from its 'so-called racial reckoning' and the experiences of particular groups such as Black people are being downplayed, said Phillipe Copeland, a professor at Boston University School of Social Work. Americans' views about discrimination haven't shifted when it comes to all groups, though. Just under half of U.S. adults, 44%, now say Hispanic people face at least 'quite a bit of discrimination,' and only 15% say this about white people. Both numbers are similar to when the question was last asked in April 2021. Divisions on the impact of DEI on Black and Hispanic people The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it's intended to help. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women and Asian people. Many — between 33% and 41% — don't think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of U.S. adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups. Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them. About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people, compared with about one-quarter of white adults. There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people. Among white people, it's mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same. Pete Parra, a 59-year-old resident of Gilbert, Arizona, thinks that DEI is making things harder for racial minorities now. He worries about how his two adult Hispanic sons will be treated when they apply for work. 'I'm not saying automatically just give it to my sons,' said Parra, who leans toward the Democratic Party. But he's concerned that now factors other than merit may take priority. 'If they get passed over for something," he said, "they're not going to know (why).' About 3 in 10 say DEI increases discrimination against white people The new poll shows that Americans aren't any more likely to think white people face discrimination than they were in 2021. And more than half think DEI doesn't make a difference when it comes to white people or men. But a substantial minority — about 3 in 10 U.S. adults — think DEI increases discrimination against white people. Even more white adults, 39%, hold that view, compared with 21% of Hispanic adults and 13% of Black adults. The recent political focus on DEI has included the idea that white people are more often overlooked for career and educational opportunities because of their race. John Bartus, a 66-year-old registered Republican in Twin Falls, Idaho, says that DEI might have been 'a good thing for all races of people, but it seems like it's gone far left.' It's his impression that DEI compels companies to hire people based on their race or if they identify as LGBTQ+. 'The most qualified person ought to get a job based on their merit or based on their educational status,' Bartus said. Brider, the Black California resident, objects to the notion that white people face the same level of discrimination as Black people. But while she thinks the aims of DEI are admirable, she also sees the reality as flawed. 'I do think there needs to be something that ensures that there is a good cross-section of people in the workplace,' Brider said. 'I just don't know what that would look like, to be honest.' ___ The AP-NORC poll of 1,437 adults was conducted July 10-14, using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
Associated Press
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
How Americans' views of racial discrimination have shifted since 2021, according to AP-NORC polling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face 'a great deal' or 'quite a bit' of discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll. That's a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they're intended to help, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including many people who belong to those groups. The findings suggest Americans' views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially since four years ago, when many companies launched efforts to promote diversity within their workforces and the products they sold. Since then, many of those companies have reversed themselves and retreated from their diversity practices, a trend that's accelerated this year under pressure from President Donald Trump, a Republican who has sought to withhold federal money from schools and companies that promote DEI. Now, it's clear that views are changing as well as company policies. Claudine Brider, a 48-year-old Black Democrat in Compton, California, says the concept of DEI has made the workplace difficult for Black people and women in new ways. 'Anytime they're in a space that they're not expected to be, like seeing a Black girl in an engineering course ... they are seen as only getting there because of those factors,' Brider said. 'It's all negated by someone saying, 'You're only here to meet a quota.'' Reversal in views of racial discrimination The new poll finds 45% of U.S. adults think Black people face high levels of discrimination, down from 60% in the spring of 2021. There was a similar drop in views about the prevalence of serious discrimination against Asian people, which fell from 45% in the 2021 poll — conducted a month after the Atlanta spa shootings, which killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent — to 32% in the current survey. There's no question the country has backtracked from its 'so-called racial reckoning' and the experiences of particular groups such as Black people are being downplayed, said Phillipe Copeland, a professor at Boston University School of Social Work. Americans' views about discrimination haven't shifted when it comes to all groups, though. Just under half of U.S. adults, 44%, now say Hispanic people face at least 'quite a bit of discrimination,' and only 15% say this about white people. Both numbers are similar to when the question was last asked in April 2021. Divisions on the impact of DEI on Black and Hispanic people The poll indicates that less than half of Americans think DEI has a benefit for the people it's intended to help. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say DEI reduces discrimination against Black people, while about one-third say this about Hispanic people, women and Asian people. Many — between 33% and 41% — don't think DEI makes a difference either way. About one-quarter of U.S. adults believe that DEI actually increases discrimination against these groups. Black and Hispanic people are more likely than white people to think DEI efforts end up increasing discrimination against people like them. About 4 in 10 Black adults and about one-third of Hispanic adults say DEI increases discrimination against Black people, compared with about one-quarter of white adults. There is a similar split between white adults and Black and Hispanic adults on assessments of discrimination against Hispanic people. Among white people, it's mostly Democrats who think DEI efforts reduce discrimination against Black and Hispanic people. Only about one-quarter of white independents and Republicans say the same. Pete Parra, a 59-year-old resident of Gilbert, Arizona, thinks that DEI is making things harder for racial minorities now. He worries about how his two adult Hispanic sons will be treated when they apply for work. 'I'm not saying automatically just give it to my sons,' said Parra, who leans toward the Democratic Party. But he's concerned that now factors other than merit may take priority. 'If they get passed over for something,' he said, 'they're not going to know (why).' About 3 in 10 say DEI increases discrimination against white people The new poll shows that Americans aren't any more likely to think white people face discrimination than they were in 2021. And more than half think DEI doesn't make a difference when it comes to white people or men. But a substantial minority — about 3 in 10 U.S. adults — think DEI increases discrimination against white people. Even more white adults, 39%, hold that view, compared with 21% of Hispanic adults and 13% of Black adults. The recent political focus on DEI has included the idea that white people are more often overlooked for career and educational opportunities because of their race. John Bartus, a 66-year-old registered Republican in Twin Falls, Idaho, says that DEI might have been 'a good thing for all races of people, but it seems like it's gone far left.' It's his impression that DEI compels companies to hire people based on their race or if they identify as LGBTQ+. 'The most qualified person ought to get a job based on their merit or based on their educational status,' Bartus said. Brider, the Black California resident, objects to the notion that white people face the same level of discrimination as Black people. But while she thinks the aims of DEI are admirable, she also sees the reality as flawed. 'I do think there needs to be something that ensures that there is a good cross-section of people in the workplace,' Brider said. 'I just don't know what that would look like, to be honest.' ___ The AP-NORC poll of 1,437 adults was conducted July 10-14, using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
New York Times
20-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Trump's Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase
President Trump's Justice Department is turning civil rights enforcement upside down. Last week, Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked a federal judge to sentence a former Louisville police officer named Brett Hankison to one day in prison. Last year, a Kentucky jury convicted Hankison of violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights when he fired multiple rounds from his handgun into her apartment on the night the police killed her. The Taylor case was one of a series of dreadful killings of unarmed Black Americans that helped touch off America's racial reckoning in 2020. It was also a paradigmatic example of the way that flawed systems interact with reckless police conduct to create fatal injustice. In the early morning hours of March 13, 2020, police officers gathered outside Taylor's apartment door. They had obtained a no-knock search warrant based on allegations that a suspected drug dealer named Jamarcus Glover had received packages at Taylor's home. Glover and Taylor once had a relationship, but Taylor was not the target of the warrant. The police on the scene were instructed to knock, even though they had a no-knock warrant. And here's where the stories of witnesses start to diverge. Officers at the scene say they knocked and announced that they were the police. The early 911 calls indicate that neighbors didn't know the police were present. In fact, in initial statements made after the raid, not a single neighbor reported having heard the police identify themselves. One witness initially said the police did not announce themselves, but he later changed his story and claimed he heard the police identify themselves. Taylor was in the apartment with her boyfriend, a man named Kenneth Walker. He testified that they were startled by a loud pounding on the door, and he said he never heard the police announce themselves. Concerned that the pounding might be coming from an intruder, he grabbed his gun, which he owned lawfully, and approached the door. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
