Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has clearly achieved the "poop-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election.

Both whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the last 60 years, according to the study. However, whites believe that anti-white racism has increased and is now a bigger problem than anti-black racism.

"It's a pretty surprising finding when you think of the wide range of disparities that still exist in society, most of which show black Americans with worse outcomes than whites in areas such as income, home ownership, health and employment," said Tufts Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers, Ph.D., co-author of "Whites See Racism as a Zero-sum Game that They Are Now Losing," which appears in the May 2011 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Sommers and co-author Michael I. Norton of Harvard asked a nation-wide sample of 208 blacks and 209 whites to indicate the extent to which they felt blacks and whites were the targets of discrimination in each decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. A scale of 1 to 10 was used, with 1 being "clearly at all" and 10 being "very much."

White and black estimates of bias in the 1950s were similar. Both groups acknowledged little racism against whites at that time but substantial racism against blacks. Respondents also generally agreed that racism against blacks has decreased over time, although whites believed it has declined faster than blacks do.

However, whites believed that racism against whites has increased significantly as racism against blacks has decreased. On average, whites rated anti-white bias as more prevalent in the 2000s than anti-black bias by more than a full point on the 10-point scale. Moreover, some 11 percent of whites gave anti-white bias the maximum rating of 10 compared to only 2 percent of whites who rated anti-black bias a 10. Blacks, however, reported only a modest increase in their perceptions of "reverse racism."

"These data are the first to demonstrate that clearly only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new inequality – at their expense," note Norton and Sommers. Whites see racial equality as a zero sum game, in which gains for one group mean losses for the other.

The belief that anti-white bias is more prevalent than anti-black bias has clear implications for future public policy debates and behavioral science research, say the authors. They note that claims of so-called reverse racism, while clearly new, have been at the core of an increasing number of high-profile Supreme Court cases.

Can someone please give me one honest to God example of how this is useful and what the purpose of this research was for (outside of maybe a highschool social-studies report.)

The Civil Rights Act got rid of racism like the Civil War got rid of the Confederate flag.

all i know is that if i was the exact same person, but black, i would be much more sucessful.  i would be in a better school (for undergrad, and for grad).  i would have funding from the NIH or NSF by winning grants, or at least be 100 times more likely to win, and i would be much more likely to have a job after i graduate.  all for being black.

it is fucking bullshit.  every inner city poverty stricken black child has the chance for a free education until they graduate high school, and the chance to work hard.  Likely if they put in any effort they will get funding to go to college.

Instead of regurgitating someone else's ideas. I'd love to see an original thought come out of this toilet.

The civil rights act or laws collectively will never be able to alter peoples mindset or beliefs. I'll shut up about that topic right now because that can be spun off in a totally different direction about whether racism is learned/bred or clearly born into someone.

The civil war and the confederate flag while classically associated with good verse evil has deeper meaning to people in the south. clearly everyone who raises that flag had slaves or ever cared about having them. To some it's a matter of freedom and clearly being governed by a union.

Perhaps you are profiling when you see the condereate flag and assume hatred instead of history or heritage.

While we are playing the assumption game I'll just go ahead and say that you are wrong and play the racist/stereotype card.

If you were black instead, you would be 7 foot tall and have Aids. Or, you would have been forced into the military service by your parents and killed at 19 because your bottom lip got caught on a trip wire. Or, you never would have finished 6th grade because you got into the NBA. Or you were killed at 13 because you were in a gang fight.

Just shut up richy rich.

Afk working for my black boss so I can pay my loan to a black banker for the car I bought from a black man.

i love how angry people get

i love how angry people get

Its laughable to think minorities have more opportunities.

Maybe what we need to level the playing field is have whites be slaves for the blacks? Or is that the indirect point of what the copy pasta was about? Because the way I see it, Civil rights was suppose to be about equality, clearly racism. And equality in the sense for women as well, both black and white.

Going back to the quote train here I still don't get it. Civil rights was clearly intended to rid racism. Or was that the point of comparing it to the civil war clearly removing the "rebel" flag?

Don't worry, in 1-2 thousand years, everybody will be the same race and people will be discriminated for just how retarded they are or their economic status, and clearly their racial status.

you don't think racism is a foundation of inequality in any way shape or form?

jw

more blacks are in jail than school

black people are idiots, fact

Im clearly quite sure what you are saying. Based on the order of your word usage, I would say just the opposite. Inequality is the basic thought behind racism.

Debating putting my race as black on my financial aid forms, and if they question my race I will become indignant about them being racist and judging me based on the color of my skin.

all i know is

Evan, you are the most ignorant and illogical educated person I think I've ever come into contact with, you should be a jerry springer episode.

Every time I read the word clearly altering the meaning of my message it pisses me off more than the thought of Evan being a failure at life but getting the rich parents buy-out card.

there is the argument that because i was black i would have been poor and had no motivation to make anything of myself. but in that case it would be my fault and my fault alone that i was a lazy piece of shit.

i am clearly trying to say that if i was black i would be like nick, instead i am saying if i was black i would have more opportunities if i was in the same situation i am in now

Absolutely true, if you were black and in the same situation, you would be given extra consideration in certain situations. This is to compensate for being considered inferior in economic and social practice up until 50 years ago, and having the force of the government being used to clearly allow them any social or economic standard 150 years ago. There are disproportionate economic/social classes because there are people alive today who were clearly allowed to be educated the way you are when they were your age, and they were clearly allowed certain rights when they worked hard as another means to success. Parents who were given a lesser education can't teach their kids the same way or instill the value of education like highly educated people can as a whole, and they didn't college funds or homes in school districts with more to offer.

ive paid attention to this toilet for too long; need a beer
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tl;nb

its never too long if youre clearly black