Harvard/Tufts Study Claims White Americans Feel More Discriminated Against than Blacks

Harvard & Tufts university study claims white Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks.

Another race-based study.... This one claims White Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, according to sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universities.

They asked 209 white and 208 black men and women to rate 'racism' against both ethnic groups since the 1950s on a scale of one to 10.

The results showed that while both blacks and whites saw anti-black racism decreasing over the decades, whites saw race relations as a 'zero sum game' where they were losing out as blacks 'gained' the advantage. The results, published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, showed that on average blacks saw anti-white bias rising slightly from 1.4 in the 1950s to 1.8 today.

Blacks also perceived that racism against themselves had steeply declined from 9.7 in the 1950s to 6.1 in the 90s. White respondents, however, saw a very different picture. For the 2000s, 11 per cent of whites gave anti-white bias the maximum 10 out of 10 rating, compared with only two per cent of whites who did so for anti-black bias. Whites believed that discrimination against them had increased from an average of 1.8 in the 1950s to 4.7 in the 2000s.

All those surveyed were asked: 'Indicate how much you think blacks/whites were/are the victims of discrimination in the United States in each of the following decades.' Source

I am so sick of all these studies that claim to have the answers for what ails this country where race-relations are concerned. One thing is abundantly clear, we aren't heading for a post-racial America in the near future.