Poll Shows Majority of Blacks View King's Dream as Unrealized

We needed a poll on unhappy blacks? They're sitting right where the Democrat Party wants them to be: slave voters shackled to leftist stagnation and decay.

But see the Wall Street Journal, "Black and White Americans Disagree on Equality, Opportunity and Racism in the U.S.":

White and black Americans disagree about equality, opportunity and racism in the U.S., more than 46 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Monday.

More than a quarter of white adults asked last week strongly agreed with the statement, “America is a nation where people are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Yet only 16% of African-Americans polled said the same, a number that has fallen one percentage point since President Barack Obama was first elected in 2008.

Of those polled, a majority of African-American adults—52%—said they strongly disagreed with the statement, while 16% of white adults said they did.

The poll of 800 Americans, conducted between Jan. 14 and 17, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage points, with larger margin for subgroups. It surveyed Americans on a broad swath of political questions including those regarding race.

The question about equality uses a direct quote from Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech given during the 1963 March on Washington. In the speech, the civil rights leader also said he dreamed that “one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed, ‘We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal.’”

After Mr. Obama’s 2008 election, African-American sentiments about equality and opportunity rose steadily, if gradually, according to previous NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls, until this most recent survey, which indicated a major reversal in sentiment.

Surprise, but the piece cites the left's lies surrounding the death of Michael Brown as a cause of declining belief in equality. That is, polling numbers are being driven by myths and lies.

Race relations are indeed bad, but not for the reasons the left wants Americans to believe. Race relations, and equal opportunity, have not improved because the left not only doesn't want them to improve, but they actively work to make them worse, dividing the country along lines of identity and hatred. That's going to be Obama's ignominious legacy.