Most Americans pessimistic about race relations: Poll
A great majority of Americans see race relations in the US as “generally bad” and believe the next US president should place “major” focus on improving the situation, a new poll shows.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Saturday showed 63 percent of of the 1,003 adults surveyed were pessimistic about the future of race relations, while 32 percent believed they were "generally good."
About 80 percent said the next US president should place an “especially major” focus on the matter.
Almost half of respondents believed race is an “extremely” significant issue and only 12 percent did not think it is important.
The poll also revealed that 55 percent say race relations are exacerbating in the US.
About 58 percent said they believed in presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying she could handle the issue.
However, only 26 percent said presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump can resolve it.
The poll came out following the recent police shootings of two African Americans which triggered mass Black Lives Matter protests in many US cities this month.
Alton Sterling, 37, was fatally shot by police in the southeastern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, and another African American, 32-year-old Philando Castile, was shot dead a day after by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
According to other surveys, racial tensions are at the highest level since the 1992 Los Angeles riots that were started after a jury acquitted four white police officers of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of African American Rodney King.
US police killed over 1,150 people in 2015, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 African Americans, according to data compiled by an activist group that runs the Mapping Police Violence project.
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