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A Majority of Black Americans Feel They're Treated Unfairly by Just About Every Major Civic Institution
Cops. Courts. Schools. Elections.
With the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech approaching next week, Pew released today a new survey on public perception of the progress blacks have made in America since then. The top-level finding is unsurprising: African-Americans are much more pessimistic than whites are in rating the extent to which they still face inequality and unfairness in American society. And they're significantly more likely to say that a lot of work still needs to be done.
(The Daily Show recently captured these same awkwardly diverging views of reality with a less scientific survey.)