As President Joe Biden and Congress have failed to deliver on promises of police accountability and amid a conservative-led backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion policies, many Black Americans are uplifting a centuries-old debate around reparations for slavery as the clearest pathway to racial equality. Ahead of the July Fourth holiday, more than 45% of Americans said racism is a big problem or the biggest problem facing the United States, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll. About 38% of respondents said racism is a problem but not one of the biggest facing the nation. Only about 14% of Americans said racism is not a problem.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to outlaw affirmative action in college admissions has put the country's racial climate in the forefront, prompting many to believe that the country is at a turning point.
According to Marc Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, "there is almost a cold war in America over the future of the country, and central to that debate is the issue of race and ethnicity, not only Black people but all nonwhite peoples."
According to Morial, the electorate's swing from electing Barack Obama in 2008 to elevating Donald Trump eight years later is an example of the tension in a nation whose face is constantly changing.
Hispanics' perspectives on race are very different from those of white people, and Republicans Tim Scott and Nikki Haley of South Carolina have both used their ancestry as examples of how far the nation has come in the early stages of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, remarked during a Fox News town hall in June, "When I hear people telling me that America is a racist nation, I've got to say not my America, not our America, not the United States of America."
But it's evident that, as America gets more diverse, how people view racism as a problem is heavily influenced by their cultural background.
According to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University study, an overwhelming 79% of Black Americans indicated racism is either the largest problem or a problem in the United States. That was far higher than the similar statements made by 46% of Hispanics and 39% of whites.
On the other hand, 17% of white people and 13% of Hispanic people claimed racism isn't an issue.
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