New poll shows discrimination against African-Americans still exists in US
Ashantai Hathaway
Press TV, Washington
This weekend, African-Americans and others mark the 50 year anniversary of what's known as 'Bloody Sunday', the civil rights march led by civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King jr. in Selma Alabama. The march was organized to demand an end to discrimination against African-American voters, but instead lead to police violently attacking peaceful marchers as they tried to make their way to the state capitol in Montgomery. An estimated 600 people were brutally beaten. Since then, America has elected its first black President. A new poll conducted by CNN/ORC shows four in 10 Americans believe discrimination against African-Americans in the United States have gotten worse under the Obama Administration.
The recent poll is in contrast to one done a few months after Obama was elected in his first term wen 32 percent of Americans believed there was an improvement in race relations in America.
The CNN/ORC poll was done before the Department of Justice released its finding on what it called a widespread racial discrimination by the Ferguson police department in Missouri, where unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer. The death lead to months of protest but the officer who shot dead the unarmed black teenager was not charged. The FBI director has admitted racial bias exists among US police officers.
In America African-Americans still have a much higher unemployment rate than that of whites and with more than 50 percent of blacks participated in the poll say, they are not afforded the same opportunities as whites while having the same qualifications
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