Barack Obama just reminded us what we’ve lost (Video)
Barack Obama just reminded us what we’ve lost (Video)
- July 19, 2018
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via Vox, July 19, 2018
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“Multiple studies, using several different surveys, have shown that overall levels
of racial resentment were virtually unchanged by the economic crash of 2008,” UC Irvine’s
Michael Tesler writes at the Monkey Cage. “Some data even suggests that racial prejudice
slightly declined during the height of economic collapse in the fall of 2008. The
evidence is pretty clear, then, that economic concerns [were] not driving racial resentment
in the Obama Era.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17585896/barack-obama-speech-south-africa-mandela.
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