New poll finds Americans perceive less racial discrimination in US

According to a new poll that highlights a shift in perceptions, only 40% of Americans think that Black and Hispanic people are subject to “quite a bit” or “a great deal” of discrimination.

Only 10% of those surveyed believed that white people were discriminated against, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released on Thursday. 30% of those surveyed also felt the same way about Asian people.

Since an AP-NORC poll conducted in April 2021, there has been a decline in the number of people saying that Asians and Black people are subject to significant discrimination, according to a statement posted on the NORC website.

Donald Trump’s poll comes as he continues to criticize initiatives that promote diversity at universities and the workplace and to impose restrictions on institutions that don’t align with his political goals in an effort to combat left-wing ideas.

In the spring of 2021, over 60% of respondents in the polls said that Black people in the US are “quite a bit” or “a great deal” of discrimination in response to the massive protests against racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The percentage has now dropped to less than 50%.

Only 39 percent of white respondents said that Black people face significant discrimination, while about 74 percent of Black respondents claim that their communities continue to experience significant discrimination.

Additionally, Americans are more skeptical of corporate initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, frequently referred to as DEI. Numerous large corporations have begun to halt these initiatives.

Deiving indefinitely was not a factor in the majority of cases, and a quarter of respondents predicted it would lead to further discrimination against minorities.

When a Black girl is seen in an engineering course or is in a space that other people are expected to be, they are only expected to get there because of those things, says Compton, California’s 48-year-old Black Democrat. Someone saying, “You’re only here to meet a quota,” negates it. “

The Trump administration has gone beyond debating DEI efforts to put pressure on institutions and organizations he sees as opposed to his political goals. For instance, the president has threatened to withhold federal disaster aid from states that don’t support his efforts to repeal anti-discrimination laws and launch investigations into businesses that use DEI policies, which he has portrayed as racist against white people.

The Trump administration’s policy of mass deportations, which have sparked concern in immigrant communities across the country, is also supported by a majority of those polled.

The majority of people, according to AP-NORC, believe that immigrants without legal status also face discrimination, which is the highest level of any identity group. According to “four in ten people who live legally in the United States are subject to this level of discrimination.”