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To: TideGlider who wrote (885352)	9/5/2015 11:20:50 AM
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To: TideGlider who wrote (885352)	9/5/2015 1:25:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577906

Forty-four percent (44%) of black voters feel the president has brought us closer together, but just 16% of whites and 21% of other minority voters agree. Most whites (54%) believe Obama has driven the races further apart, a view shared by only 21% of blacks and 38% of other minority voters. These stats are telling.......when minorities feel more included, whites feel more excluded. That is pretty typical. One of the stats I learned when developing apt projects..........when a project become somewhere between 30-40% minority occupied, most whites in the project will perceive that the project has become majority occupied by minorities and will start to move out. Let's get clear what that means.........as soon as a 100 unit project has more than 30 apts occupied by minorities, whites will think the project has gone minority and will move. And it doesn't matter if the minorities are of the same economic/social class. The same thing happened to city neighborhoods in the past and now the suburbs. Its what created white flight which devastated American cities. A few houses would be sold to blacks and predictably the for sale signs on houses owned by whites would start popping up. Prejudice and fear ruined American cities. Realtors used that fear to make a fortune 'turning' a neighborhood. So you can cite all the studies you want but when it comes to the opinion of whites on minority relations, it must be taken with a huge grain of salt. White perception of minorities is usually tinged with latent fear and not a accurate presentation of reality. The election of Obama has brought to the surface all those latent fears..........esp in that portion of the population that is most acutely xenophobic. And its those people who see Obama's presidency as divisive. Obama is not divisive......he has given those whites who feel disenfranchised every opportunity to work together and its the whites and their leaders who have refused. At the same time all the racial prejudices that have simmered under the surface for decades have come to the surface. We have seen how many whites, including our political leaders, continue to harbor considerable prejudice against minorities and clearly think they can express those prejudices without fear of reprisal. So we have the organizations like Rasmussen Reports that represent the thinking of this group of whites publishing studies making it look like its Obama's fault. Its BS. I would think TG you would know better.......but apparently not.