Attack on Spike Lee can teach us about racial attitudes
By Michael Tesler
February 26 at 6:00 AM
... Trumps tweet raised eyebrows, since Lees speech did not mention the president. Even on Fox News, Brit Hume pushed back against the presidents tweet ...
In 2012, I asked a nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans what percentage of black people they thought disliked white people. The graphs above show that whites who have unfavorable views of African Americans and who want their close relatives to marry same-race spouses perceive the most anti-white bigotry among blacks. The most racially biased whites thought that over two-thirds of black people dislike whites ...
... its not surprising that the most prejudiced whites think most black people are racists. Nor is it surprising that a president who most Americans think is racist is quick to charge black people with anti-white racism ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/26/what-trumps-attack-spike-lee-can-teach-us-about-racial-attitudes-charts/?utm_term=.1929c56487fd