Wow, a lot has been written in the 2 days I've been gone.
jh Wrote:Again, you need to read the article a little more closely. The survey was conducted over the Internet because studies have found people are more willing to give truthful responses when they aren't talking to someone. But what you are suggesting would tend to make the numbers higher, not lower.
After reading this story, but prior to creating this thread, I heard on talk radio that this was, indeed, a phone poll and that (favorable?) respondents were given a website to go to.
I would also agree with those who believe that racism is based on perception. A black guy gets mugged in a seedy white neighborhood and race will immediately become a factor. A white guy gets mugged in a seedy black neighborhood and the white guy is called an idiot for going there.
Black leaders don't help the matter at all. Folks like Jackson, Sharpton, Wright, et al don't want to help blacks solve their problems, they want to tell them who to blame for thier problems. After the Imus thing Bill O"Rielly interviewed Sharpton and O'Rielly asked him if there's black on white racism and Sharpton said 'NO." When asked why, Sharpton said racism only comes from people who hold power.
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh spent the last 15 minutes of his show talking about this story and two afternoon radio talk show hosts spent an hour on it and they, like me, think that if Obama loses the left will cry racism and this story advances that excuse.