By: Rusty Brooks
The New York Post reported on a Siena College poll that was released Monday, revealing the majority of New Yorkers think race relations are worse in New York.
According to the poll only 33% of New Yorkers have a positive view of race relations in their state.
The poll was released on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday.
Only 5 percent of New Yorkers surveyed by the college described race relations as excellent, while 28 described them as good.
Nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers — 64 percent — said that race relations in the state have grown tougher: 44 percent rate them fair, while 22 percent describe them as poor, the Post explained.
In 2010 Siena College released the same poll and at the time 51% of New Yorkers had a positive view of race relations in their state.
The most negative numbers come from New York City, where 29 percent of residents think race relations are poor, compared to 20 percent of suburbanites and 15 percent of upstaters, the Post pointed out.
“At least 60 percent of whites, blacks, Latinos, upstaters and downstaters, liberals, moderates and conservatives all view race relations negatively”, Siena pollster Steve Greenberg told the N.Y Post.
Essentially all groups, ethnically, geographically and politically share similar views.
Another interesting result of the poll indicated that a large majority of 78 percent, think religious minorities — including Jews and Muslims — experience discrimination based on their religious affiliations.
“New Yorkers’ views on race relations today are nearly as negative as they have ever been over the last dozen years. Since 2008, only 2015 saw New Yorkers more negative about race relations in the state,” said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg to the Post.
“This is not really a surprise, obviously you have the rash of violent anti-Semitic attacks taking place all over New York City, almost all perpetrated by African Americans against Jews, so you can see where the pessimism comes from. Who would have thought in a progressive utopia captained by enlightened people like Governor Cuomo, de Blasio and the rest, we would see such disharmony, I thought only those evil red states see such racism, CNN told me so” political analyst sarcastically told TJV.
“On top of what they are seeing in their state, the corporate media essentially pushes race issues, endlessly on news outlets like NBC, CNN and MSNBC. From the second Trump became president, every single person who voted for Trump has been portrayed as a Nazi, white supremacist or simply the R word, racist. In Virginia a pro 2nd amendment rally, just the other day, the media portrayed as a neo-Nazi, white supremacist event, even though not a single Nazi showed, instead people of all races came out in favor of the right to bear arms, but the corporate media don’t tell you the reality, after their grave predictions of race driven chaos failed to materialize, so you can see why people are so pessimistic”, Jared Evan concluded.
