Obama's presidency improving US race relations

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM Posted by Beijing News


Barack Obama's historic breakthrough as the first African-American president appears to have reduced racial divisions in the United States, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll published Tuesday.

As the US leader approaches 100 days in office, the survey found that about two-thirds of Americans -- 66 percent -- said race relations are generally good, compared with 53 percent in July.

Twenty-two percent of respondents said US race relations are bad, compared to 37 percent in July.

The survey found that Black Americans remain among Obama's staunchest supporters, with 70 percent of US blacks saying the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 34 percent of whites.

Still, about half of African-Americans said whites have a better chance of getting ahead in American society, according to the nationwide telephone survey of 973 adults.

The poll's margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points for all people, and plus or minus seven points for African-Americans.







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