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49 percent of Americans say racism "a big problem": poll

Xinhua, November 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

About half of Americans believe that racism is "a big problem" facing the United States, a new poll said on Tuesday.

A total of 49 percent of Americans now call racism "a big problem", rising by 21 percent compared with the figure in 2011, said the new national poll conducted by the U.S. TV network CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Another 33 percent of Americans describe racism as "somewhat of a problem" in the country, while nine percent call it "a small problem". Only seven percent say racism is "not a problem at all."

The poll's finding was consistent with that of other multiple surveys which had pointed to a significant swing in attitude to race relations in the United States since the country's first African-American President Barack Obama took office in 2009, when about two thirds of Americans said they believed that race relations in the country were generally good.

The nationwide poll of 1,951 Americans also came at a time when the country was struggling to deal with continued racially charged violence targeted at the minorities, especially the African-American communities. Enditem