A recent poll shows that African Americans still feel disadvantaged in getting jobs, just as they did in 1963, 50 years ago.
According to a Gallup poll of 1,001 blacks completed Aug. 9-22, Sixty percent of U.S. blacks believe whites have better chances than blacks to get jobs for which they are qualified, while 39% believe whites and blacks have equal opportunities, a Gallup writer reported. Blacks’ views are more positive now than they were in 1963, when 74% thought whites had better chances at jobs. Blacks have felt disadvantaged versus whites in terms of job hiring in all but a couple of instances over the last 50 years.
A separate question in the poll asked blacks directly whether they thought discrimination was mostly the reason blacks tend to have lower income, jobs, and housing than whites. Forty percent see discrimination as the major reason for these economic disparities by race, while 57% think it is due to factors apart from discrimination.
So, if this poll is correct, African Americans ARE NOT discriminated against like some of them think. Maybe they are just lazy and would rather live off some womans welfare check, then work. Oh wait, I’ve got to give equal time to others. There are whites that do this to. The poll should have asked the 57% why they thought the factors were.