Summary Of Public Opinion By Age: Racial Equality In The United States

Racism is a highly debated topic in the US. Just one look on the media will show you how people have different opinions on racism and how they react about it. Groups like Black Lives Matter have popped up. This because they believe racism is a growing issue in the US. Others believe it has gone down or is gone completely and people are just overreacting about it. I believe racism is an ongoing issue which is becoming worse because of media, how people grew up, where they grew and what myths they heard during their childhood. Racism spiked from the years 2014 to 2015. A survey named “Public Opinion by Age: Racial Equality in the United States” was taken to see how people viewed racism. In the year 2014, about 51% of them said racism was gone and has been fixed. Those same people took the survey again and 32% of them said racism was gone and had been fixed. That was a change of about 20%! This shows racism has grown during the on-going
They are already there because of how their parents guide them on what is wrong and what it right and how they see things. It is just when a person feels like a racial slur is not really racist, they begin to become racist. People have a hard time admitting that they are racist. CNN wrote the article, “Go ahead, admit you're a racist” they talk about how people can not admit they are being racist when they really are racist. When she was backstage, Kelly Osbourne said the following "If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?" She later apologized for poor choice of words but she said she won’t apologize for being racist because she is not. As you can see, she made a very racial slur. She just can’t admit it because she looks at racism as a bad image and does not want to show herself as one. People who believe racism is bad still can act racist as seen in this case. This is because they just can see what they said as