28 Percent Of Whites Believe Housing Discrimination Should Be Legal
LatestWhile racism is, for the most part, over in America, some unsettling news has come to light suggesting that it’s actually not. According to a new survey, 28 percent of white Americans said they’d really appreciate it if they could discriminate against races and ethnicities when it comes to selling or renting.
The General Social Survey has been conducted since the ‘70s to measure American attitudes on cultural issues, and it’s still producing quite telling results. It’s not surprising that the whites of the ‘70s were all for allowing homeowners to refuse black people entry into their neighborhood—and it may not be surprising that 2015 views are not much better.
The Washington Post reports that, while the Obama administration has unveiled massive plans to actively combat housing segregation all over the country—the new HUD effort will require cities and towns to track discriminatory patterns and report them publicly every three to five years—the social views of white America have, remarkably, not caught up to the law.