Poll: Many Americans Don't Like Black People or Mormons

[struggle4progress]

Jul-19-2012 17:05
Salem-News.com

... Great numbers of voters have confessed that they would not be comfortable if a close relative decided to marry someone who was either black or Mormon ...

The poll shows that 20 percent of voters would not want a Mormon to marry into their family, and 14 percent said they would not wants an African American to marry in either ...

In the past four years, views on both racial prejudice and on the Mormon Church have evolved. Fewer Americans sense discrimination toward blacks in their communities. Much of this change has occurred since President Obama was inaugurated into the White House. The poll results concerning African American discrimination have reduced from 50% of the public back in January 09, down to around 37 percent today. It is not clear whether or not African Americans have noticed this shift in ideas, as whites and other non-blacks are the ones who claim that this shift has taken place ...

http://www.blackbluedog.com/2012/07/news/poll-many-americans-dont-like-black-people-or-mormons/#

[MrSlayer]

1. What about people that dislike both?

Tough election for them.

[Zanzoobar]

2. As a black Mormon, I am pissed!!!

[Booster]

3. My entire family, with the exception of me, are/were Mormon. I have always wanted to ask why would

any black man or woman want to join that church? My stepfather, not a nice man, was the Bishop in a tiny town and a lady moved in who was Mormon and went to my stepfather and said she had a couple of kids and really needed help so she could buy some food. He gave her $20. She came back 2 wks later and said she needed help again. That asshole told her "ya know, I don't think the Lord wants to help you anymore". Every time he would tell that story he'd rear back his ugly head and laugh and laugh. I couldn't stand him most of the time.

[brewens]

4. I asked a native american friend why any of them would ever set foot in a white mans

church? I'm a godless heathen btw. It seems to me that they shouldn't have needed anyone to tell them about God/s. Their ancestral religion should be as good or better.

[Booster]

7. Agreed. A whole lot better. I'm a godless heathen also. I love asking my cousins stuff like "Adam

& Eve" had 3 sons right? They go yep. Then I ask "well, did Eve have sex with her own sons, cause there's an awful lot of people here now". There's a whole lot more of those kind of questions, but I find it interesting that not one of them has even read the Bible, or the book or Mormon. They just accepted what their parents told them about everything, like sheep. Oh, and I think all of them are Republicans. We're not real close needless to say.

[Zanzoobar]

9. It was a joke. I didn't think there were black Mormons.

I'm as white as they come. No offense intended.

[flamingdem]

10. I laughed

[Booster]

14. No offense taken. Guess you can't answer my question. lol & yes, there are black Mormons. Why?

[demwing]

15. Gladys Knight is a Mormon /nt

[Zalatix]

12. Yet God helps him over and over again.

If he read the Bible he'd know that.

[midnight]

5. Somehow it makes you wonder if, multiple wars around the world, our message

of hostility is blocking this country from getting along at home....

[Booster]

8. Good point. I know for a fact they certainly aren't helping.

[craigmatic]

6. Am I wrong if I hope they dislike mormons more?

[Zalatix]

13. Yes, because it's a divisive kind of hate.

Blacks, whites, atheists, Mormons, all part of the 99%.

[siligut]

17. NO, and extra double NO if it keeps Mitt out of the Oval Office

Plus, there is a big difference between the two.

[kwolf68]

11. So what...

14% don't want a black to marry into their family? That's actually amazingly low. It tells me 86% would be Ok with it. Not bad numbers.

[freshwest]

16. I'm anti-American. I don't have problems with those and other groups. I must be an alien.

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange. ~ Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet

[ProgressiveEconomist]

18. Big problem with this poll: Who's going to ADMIT explicit prejudice?

Without any change in underlying racism, the "socially desirable" answer to questions about personal prejudice may have shifted radically in light of the current historic Presidency of an African-American.

To take this kind of factor into account, psychologists and sociologists have developed a toolkit of measures of implicit or subtle racism (see http://brownrecluse.uvm.edu/~psych/graduate/gen_exp/social/papers/racial_prejudice_measure.pdf ), but these measures are very difficult to use in cheap telephone surveys.

Thus IMO rapid drastic shifts in measured prejudice like those reported in the OP must be taken with several grains of salt.