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Sunday, June 25th, 2017

Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot

Author:     Tara Isabella Burton
Source:     VOX
Publication Date:     Jun 23, 2017, 11:50am EDT
 Link: Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot
Stephan:   The race problem in the U.S. is overwhelmingly a White Supremacy problem, that is strongly correlated with conservative religion and politics. Part of the problem is this community is capable of very little self-assessment, because much of their responses arise from fear and a sense of humiliation, a feeling they have been left out. Here is some data.

White evangelicals

How do Americans perceive the discrimination faced by its own minority groups? It depends on whom you ask.

 The idea that certain groups misjudge the amount of discrimination that other groups struggle with is probably not such a shock. But more surprising may well be what’s one of the clearest indicators of perspective on bias in America: faith.

One of the most notable markers of difference in how people perceive prejudice in America turns out to be faith identity. The American Values Atlas by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute reveals marked discrepancies in how members of different faith traditions perceive prejudice against African Americans, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community. The biggest divide? As Dr. Robert Jones, PRRI’s CEO and author of The End of White Christian America, told Vox, it’s between “white Christian groups — and everybody else.”

The AVA is based on 40,000 telephone interviews conducted across all 50 states. On average, the study found that 63 percent of Americans acknowledged “a lot” of discrimination […]

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