Newsflash: Majority of Blacks Support Preferential Treatment
The Pew Research Institute released a survey last month that revealed 58 percent of blacks agree that minorities should receive preferential treatment. Not a surprise. Only 22 percent of whites agree. Among Democrats, 45 percent agree that minorities should receive preferential treatment, in contrast to only 13 percent of Republicans. Twenty-eight percent of independents agree.
Here’s the surprise: 44 percent of people younger than 30 believe “every effort should be made to improve the position of minorities,” which we may assume includes racial preferences. One would think younger people, who didn’t live through Jim Crow (and whose parents may not have been alive during Jim Crow, either), would oppose preferences now that barriers have been torn down, and the only evidence of “racism” they’ve experienced is a white sales clerk following them around in a store or people looking at them “funny.”
To support preferential treatment is to support lowered standards. There’s no other way around it. Employing racial preferences involves lowering the bar for individuals who are members of certain racial groups.
And some people call that progress.
