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Most of the white folks we know be swirling it up, but apparently the ones that aren’t are hating on America’s “post-racial” situation… A new study has concluded that despite ongoing racial disparities in the U.S. (with blacks still mostly getting the short end of the stick) whites believe they are victims of racism more than blacks. SMH! According to researchers at Tufts University, the study they conducted actually contradicts the idea of the post racial society that many people believed was happening in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s election. “It’s a pretty surprising finding when you think of the wide range of disparities that still exist in society, most of which show black Americans with worse outcomes than whites in areas such as income, home ownership, health and employment,” study researcher Samuel Sommers, a psychologist at Tufts University, said in a statement. Sommers and his colleagues surveyed a group of 208 blacks and 209 whites from across the country using questionnaires which asked how much racial discrimination each group experienced from the 1950s onward. Both groups agreed on the amount of racial discrimination in the 50s, however whites believe that racism against blacks decreased faster than blacks do. Another big difference was that whites believe that anti-white bias has increased as anti-black bias has decreased. Researchers found that on average whites rated anti-white racism as more prevalent in the 2000′s than anti-black bias by more than a full point on a 10-point scale with 11% of whites weighing in that whites are currently “very much” targets of discrimination, compared with 2 percent of blacks who said blacks are “very much” discrimination targets. In other words — black folks aren’t playing the race card for the most part but more than 10% of whites are! The study suggests that whites see racial equality as a zero-sum game, in which one group wins at the other’s expense. “These data are the first to demonstrate that not only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new inequality — at their expense,” Sommers and his colleagues wrote in May in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Aw poor thangs! They think they got it bad — try being shackled to the cotton fields for 400 years then going north just to get shot up in Cabrini Greens… View This Poll Market Research Source

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For Discussion: White People Believe They Are “Victims” Of Racism