Poll: Most Americans say Trump is racist

Fifty-seven percent of all adults, including more than 8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites, said they think Trump is racist. Eighty-five percent of Democrats consider Trump racist, but just 21 percent of Republicans agree.

The poll, designed to highlight the views of African Americans as Black History Month draws to a close, shows deep pessimism among black people about the state of politics and the country. It finds that more than 9 in 10 of blacks disapprove of how Trump is handling his job as president, 9 in 10 think the country is headed in the wrong direction, and three-quarters think that direction has worsened in the last year.

By comparison, 45 percent of whites approve of the job Trump is doing, though only 35 percent think the direction of the country is improving.
About half of all Americans, including two-thirds of African Americans, think that race relations in the United States have worsened over the past year, the poll shows.

Michael Jefferies, an American Studies professor at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said he wasn’t surprised by the survey’s findings.
“I don’t think there’s really much question what’s going on here,” Jefferies said. “You don’t have to look far back to see how inequality has been sustained and exacerbated in this country.”

Jefferies said African-Americans are suspicious primarily because Trump has few domestic policy milestones so far in his young presidency. His administration has stated goals of cutting housing programs and gutting the Affordable Health Care Act, both of which work to address inequality.

 

Navy Vet

Article URL : https://1069thefox.com/news/030030-poll-most-americans-say-trump-is-racist/