The most interesting part of that survey to me was in the second section where they asked the races to explain the races' inequality. In the third square of the graph it shows that black people believe more in inborn abilities' affect on their own attainment than white people do. Similarly the numbers for lack of will and motivation are really close. I would like to see a similar survey conducted with white people's explanation for their 'success' as well to see what is the accepted explanation for that.
Isn't it perverse how black people have had a narrative created for them that now they are beginning to believe in similarly to bigots?
It has been argued by people smarter than me that this is the whole point of propaganda - turning a falsehood into truth through repetition and indoctrination.
Know how to keep a man down? Instill him with a sense of self-hatred.
- The GSS is conducted in face-to-face interviews or over the phone. Krysan found in a 1995 study that when people were surveyed anonymously through the mail, they were more likely to express less favorable attitudes toward racial equality. “The more privacy you give a white person to express their attitudes, the less liberal they become,” she said.
Hence the Internet. "Give a man a mask" and all that.