Letters to the Editor
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not an easy poll to read
I'm a little late to the game in commenting on this article, but I didn't really see my take on it reflected in the comments. I apologize if someone else made these points and I missed it. Here goes...
I don't know what this poll means and neither do any of you. Its not a very good poll. On the surface it says almost nothing about whether racism exists or not. What it does say is that black people think there's more racism than white people think there is. So there you have it: blacks and whites have different views on how much racism exists. This is not a surprising or useful result.
I'd like to see a poll that asks the same question of Jews and Latin-Americans and Catholics and Asians and any other minority religious or ethnic group that may have suffered the effects of some kind of -ism. I don't know, but I think there's a possibility that these groups would also give the racism exists answer at a higher rate than whites.
Does racism exist? Probably. Does this poll ask or answer that question? No.