Results: The United Nation's "scathing" report: Structural racism endures in the U.S, and the government has failed to protect African American's rights
Published on 10/14/2016
"The U.S gov't is 'not acting with due diligence to protect the rights of African Americans'... It [United Nations report] called for more thorough civil rights laws, and encouraged government to create a national plan to comprehensively address racism... 'There is a profound need to acknowledge that the transatlantic trade in Africans, enslavement, colonization and colonialism were a crime against humanity and are among the major sources of racism, racial discrimination, Afrophobia, and related intolerance' the UN group stressed. 'Past injustices against African Americans need to be addressed with reparatory justice...'
This new systemic racism manifests itself in numerous forms, through police brutality, mass incarceration, extreme poverty and drastically inequitable access to resources and social services... 'Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency,' the report said. It described lynching as a 'form of racial terrorism that has contributed to a legacy of racial inequality that the United States must address."
http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/scathing-u-n-report-structural-racism-endures-in-u-s-and-the-government-has-failed-to-protect-african-americans-rights/
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1.
Do you believe the USA still has a problem with deep rooted, systemic/structural racism? Yes
50%
895 votes
No
19%
342 votes
Undecided
18%
324 votes
Not Applicable
13%
238 votes
2.
2.
If you do notice this perpetual problem do you call it out, or stay quiet? I call out systemic/structural racism in the United States
22%
397 votes
I keep quiet when I witness/experience systemic/structural racism in the United States
17%
298 votes
N/A
59%
1059 votes
Other (please specify)
3%
45 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.39% | 7 | |
| Depends on the situation | 0.11% | 2 |
| I live in Canada | 0.11% | 2 |
| I have no one to tell | 0.06% | 1 |
| canadian | 0.06% | 1 |
| It depends. | 0.06% | 1 |
| The only racism in the United States is against white people. | 0.06% | 1 |
| It depends | 0.06% | 1 |
| they have more rights than we do | 0.06% | 1 |
| depends | 0.06% | 1 |
| Depends on the situation. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am a canadian but liking it | 0.06% | 1 |
| not that specific when calling out racism | 0.06% | 1 |
| SOMETIMES | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am not witnesing any rasism in USA | 0.06% | 1 |
| To avoid a debate, I'll keep my opinion to myself | 0.06% | 1 |
| I'm Canadian, but after watching tv we know about all the problems, who would listen to us about it????? | 0.06% | 1 |
| I'm Canadian | 0.06% | 1 |
| I live in Canada but follow on TV | 0.06% | 1 |
| cvc | 0.06% | 1 |
| I'm Canadian. | 0.06% | 1 |
| you're insisting there IS a probem!;unbiased mucxh?! | 0.06% | 1 |
| it's the UN, it's bullshit | 0.06% | 1 |
| I live in Canada and see rasim from all sides and all races. | 0.06% | 1 |
| There is a problem and it stems from thinking that everything is owed to them instead of growing into the society - two standard system - handouts from the government - enough is enough | 0.06% | 1 |
| i give up on this because it has gotten worse under the first black president, | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am so sick of racism, yes it still exists at times but if you run from a cop you will probably get shot, if you rob a store you willprobably get shot, if you resist arrest, you will probably get shot. police are afraid for their lives now | 0.06% | 1 |
| Depends on the case | 0.06% | 1 |
| I gauge the situation and call it out if safe to do so | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am not a US Citizen; I do not live in the United States. | 0.06% | 1 |
| it is bull unless you want to be a victem then you can find plenty of spoiled child reactions | 0.06% | 1 |
| The criminal government and liberal media has created this situation. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I do not live in the U.S. | 0.06% | 1 |
| If i were there i would call it out. | 0.06% | 1 |
| A little bit of the two. | 0.06% | 1 |
| haven't seen anyu | 0.06% | 1 |
| depends on situation | 0.06% | 1 |
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3.
Do you believe that Afrophobia (a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards black people or people of African Descent around the world. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the implication of antipathy, contempt and aversion) is a thing, or not? Afrophobia is real
54%
967 votes
Afrophobia is not real
36%
645 votes
Other (please specify)
10%
187 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.89% | 52 | |
| na | 2.28% | 41 |
| n/a | 1.17% | 21 |
| Not sure | 0.78% | 14 |
| undecided | 0.33% | 6 |
| unsure | 0.17% | 3 |
| none | 0.11% | 2 |
| dont know | 0.11% | 2 |
| racism exists. period. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I didn't realize this is still a problem | 0.06% | 1 |
| haven't thought about it | 0.06% | 1 |
| jjnnjnjjnjnjjnjnjnjnn | 0.06% | 1 |
| I'm not american and I don't care about your racial problems. You people are hate mongers. | 0.06% | 1 |
| huh | 0.06% | 1 |
| whitephobia is just as real | 0.06% | 1 |
| As | 0.06% | 1 |
| Afrophbia? Please don't write surveys when you're on crack. | 0.06% | 1 |
| It's real but I don't like the term. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am not sure what the real problem.issue is. But the afro-American makes most of them for themselves. | 0.06% | 1 |
| no clue | 0.06% | 1 |
| Depends on where you live and what life experiences you have had with people of African descent. Like all humans some are good and some are not. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I think things are not as positive as it should be. Don't know why all this is happening | 0.06% | 1 |
| I believe it is real.. To a degree. I think it's possible, the older generation still feel that way.n | 0.06% | 1 |
| nil | 0.06% | 1 |
| We all get negative attitudes regardless of race or color | 0.06% | 1 |
| phobia is too strong a word. Come now | 0.06% | 1 |
| n'a | 0.06% | 1 |
| does not apply | 0.06% | 1 |
| no idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| it goes both ways | 0.06% | 1 |
| I have no idea what the question means | 0.06% | 1 |
| don't live in the States | 0.06% | 1 |
| Not sure. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Like Caucasian-phobia? | 0.06% | 1 |
| It's as real as you make it. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Really | 0.06% | 1 |
| huh ? | 0.06% | 1 |
| Afrophobia is real just like prejudices against other races/ethnic groups exist | 0.06% | 1 |
| It's not a phobia. But yes, it's more real than not | 0.06% | 1 |
| I have no idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| could not say | 0.06% | 1 |
| i think that this proves that somethng is being shoved down out throats, | 0.06% | 1 |
| i don't like making up a name for a lack of Education on an issue. It just affirms the practice | 0.06% | 1 |
| not american | 0.06% | 1 |
| don't care | 0.06% | 1 |
| n a | 0.06% | 1 |
| It's mainly here in the states and UK. | 0.06% | 1 |
| It is real but in some cases justified | 0.06% | 1 |
| Some people still have a negative attitude but many do not | 0.06% | 1 |
| Idiocy is also real. | 0.06% | 1 |
| obama has made this so much worse | 0.06% | 1 |
| Idgaf | 0.06% | 1 |
| i dont know | 0.06% | 1 |
| not sure, you can put 'phobia' on anything | 0.06% | 1 |
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4.
Do you agree with Ben and Jerry's that "All lives don't matter until black lives matter?" (in the eyes of the legal system, police, public opinion) Yes
28%
499 votes
No
40%
712 votes
Undecided
33%
588 votes
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5.
Do you think that #AllLivesMatter is cultural erasure regarding the attitudes/behavior that black people have experienced in the history of the USA? Cultural erasure: a practice in which a dominant culture, for example a colonizing nation, attempts to negate, suppress, remove and, in effect, erase the culture of a subordinate culture. The idea of "civilizing" nonwhite people can be seen as cultural erasure. Yes
24%
423 votes
No
28%
511 votes
Undecided
48%
865 votes
6.
6.
Which do you think better addresses/'treats" racism? Number 1: ignore it/don't talk about it. Stop labeling people as "black," "asian," "white," "hawaiian/pacific islander," "latino/latinia/spanish," "indigneous (Native American)," etc. OR Number 2: speak out about racial injustices (police brutality and the tendency for it to be used more on people of color versus white people; racism within social institutions/structures, media stereotypes, mass incarceration, segregated schools/neighborhoods, etc) and open up the possibility of discussion of unpacking racism? Number 1
33%
585 votes
Number 2
51%
918 votes
Other (please specify)
16%
296 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 3.95% | 71 | |
| Na | 2.89% | 52 |
| n/a | 1.67% | 30 |
| not sure | 0.56% | 10 |
| Don't know | 0.28% | 5 |
| none | 0.22% | 4 |
| undecided | 0.22% | 4 |
| unsure | 0.17% | 3 |
| Idk | 0.17% | 3 |
| BOTH | 0.17% | 3 |
| . | 0.11% | 2 |
| neither | 0.11% | 2 |
| Once again I don't know what you are saying | 0.06% | 1 |
| I'm so over this | 0.06% | 1 |
| We need to learn to appreciate other people's culture and all entities, government and otherwise, need to drop the question about what race/heritage you are! | 0.06% | 1 |
| other | 0.06% | 1 |
| No | 0.06% | 1 |
| Racism works both ways | 0.06% | 1 |
| sick of this | 0.06% | 1 |
| Don't want to answer | 0.06% | 1 |
| Undeided | 0.06% | 1 |
| racism is just a convenient cause for leftists to get the black vote. leftist democrats are the true racists | 0.06% | 1 |
| Xxxxxx | 0.06% | 1 |
| what ? | 0.06% | 1 |
| combination of both | 0.06% | 1 |
| tl, dr | 0.06% | 1 |
| Can't we all just "get along?" | 0.06% | 1 |
| heavy, long survey | 0.06% | 1 |
| n | 0.06% | 1 |
| x | 0.06% | 1 |
| RACISM IS THERE, BUT NOT TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS PUBLICIZED BY THOSE THAT WANT TO BREED DISSENT | 0.06% | 1 |
| No violence | 0.06% | 1 |
| Fix what you Caucasians created. | 0.06% | 1 |
| sad this is all political and no one will care anymore then i do now once this electon is over. | 0.06% | 1 |
| no idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| get a life | 0.06% | 1 |
| 3 | 0.06% | 1 |
| Hard to get a handle on it from Canada | 0.06% | 1 |
| education: every white person came from a black person | 0.06% | 1 |
| still thinking | 0.06% | 1 |
| so tired of the issue, period | 0.06% | 1 |
| dont care | 0.06% | 1 |
| segregation | 0.06% | 1 |
| I have no idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| number10 | 0.06% | 1 |
| This is inbred behavior. It'll never go away. | 0.06% | 1 |
| n a | 0.06% | 1 |
| Those 2 choices really contain more choices. Stop labeling. | 0.06% | 1 |
| get on with your lives please! | 0.06% | 1 |
| stop blaming others, in particular whites for your stupidness, laziness | 0.06% | 1 |
| Neither 1 or 2. | 0.06% | 1 |
| How about just treating all people the same | 0.06% | 1 |
| ??? | 0.06% | 1 |
| Isdgaf | 0.06% | 1 |
| get real! | 0.06% | 1 |
| Not always police Brutality as mentioned, sometime's there is 2 sides to the story, but unfortunateley a few bad apples on both sides spoil the barrel. | 0.06% | 1 |
| just treat everyone the same | 0.06% | 1 |
| it's all getting ridiculous | 0.06% | 1 |
| American problem, you love war, violence and hate. I have no answer for you, figure it out. | 0.06% | 1 |
| huh? | 0.06% | 1 |
| there is 1000% more black on black crime than white on black, i find this survey racist | 0.06% | 1 |
| none of the above. Since Obama has been in office racial problems have escallated. | 0.06% | 1 |
| I am not racist | 0.06% | 1 |
| this only exists because the media continues to harp on it. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Make it your business to treat everyone according to the 'content of their character'. | 0.06% | 1 |
| We are all one race, "the human race", | 0.06% | 1 |
| Teach people to be self aware | 0.06% | 1 |
| hbjn | 0.06% | 1 |
| huh | 0.06% | 1 |
| no to all the PC correctness. | 0.06% | 1 |
| combo of both | 0.06% | 1 |
| It means that Black Lives Matter TOO! They're not insignificant and shouldn't be treated with assumptions that they're automatically guilty or are dangerous. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Think it's unfounded & it just gives them an excuse to loot | 0.06% | 1 |
| ? | 0.06% | 1 |
| what | 0.06% | 1 |
| too serious a topic for a tellwut survey | 0.06% | 1 |
| You'd be better off not wasting time with this garbage. | 0.06% | 1 |
| quit using labels,start being kind to others | 0.06% | 1 |
| What a slanted query. | 0.06% | 1 |
| build the wall | 0.06% | 1 |
| enough already I'm sick of this subject | 0.06% | 1 |
| I think the black people should move on and stop making it an issue | 0.06% | 1 |
| address injustices not to one group how about Indians elder and the Christians yeengrandma | 0.06% | 1 |
| neither? | 0.06% | 1 |
| I don't know the answer | 0.06% | 1 |
| this is all engineered | 0.06% | 1 |
| both? | 0.06% | 1 |
| Stop buying into to the bull | 0.06% | 1 |
| Stop blowing shit out of proportion & stop defending criminals | 0.06% | 1 |
| i dont know | 0.06% | 1 |
| No such things | 0.06% | 1 |
| As usual only two choices and neither is 100 per cent correct. A mixture of the two would be better for all races in the long run. | 0.06% | 1 |
| dunno | 0.06% | 1 |
| I don't know | 0.06% | 1 |
| All of the above | 0.06% | 1 |
| Racism nearly is non existent where I live | 0.06% | 1 |
| Both 1&2 | 0.06% | 1 |
| just relax and not go so crazy with labels. people are people are people. | 0.06% | 1 |
| be real | 0.06% | 1 |
| nil | 0.06% | 1 |
| it is better to erase racism by not having it forward or reverse... get it??? | 0.06% | 1 |
| not sure, just get along and be happy | 0.06% | 1 |
| Neither. Follow the rules when police or authority say something. Have respect | 0.06% | 1 |
| do not know | 0.06% | 1 |
| ba | 0.06% | 1 |
| it depends on the situation | 0.06% | 1 |
| again our thoughts being Canadian would not be heard. There should be no labels, people are people regardless of colour, creed, or religion. Canada prides itself on multiculturalism, hoping that could happen in the U.S. , life would be easier. | 0.06% | 1 |
| S | 0.06% | 1 |
| n'a | 0.06% | 1 |
| all of the above..and most of all, search your own biases and eliminate them first before you point fingers at others | 0.06% | 1 |
| - | 0.06% | 1 |
| ugh | 0.06% | 1 |
| 1 and 2 | 0.06% | 1 |
| Have never been racist, can't understand it in others, would "call it out" if I saw it happening. | 0.06% | 1 |
| i think it goes for alot of biases not just blacks | 0.06% | 1 |
| Talking is not enough. You have a strategy and coping mechanisms when racism is seen, But do not take every obstacle as a race problem. You have to have dignity to be treated with dignity. | 0.06% | 1 |
| xxx | 0.06% | 1 |
| I think we need a lot more teaching on cultures and on the belief that all people ard created equally. | 0.06% | 1 |
| m | 0.06% | 1 |
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