Most Black people's views of race and racism in the UK are profoundly different from those of White people, according to a sweeping and exclusive new CNN/Savanta ComRes poll.https://cnn.it/2Z03ruX
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58% of Black people and 39% of White people said the Conservative party was institutionally racist. By contrast, roughly a third of each group believe the opposition Labour Party is institutionally racist. https://cnn.it/2CviANv pic.twitter.com/89RXhPVzfh
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Black and White respondents have exactly opposite views on whether they trust the UK government not to repeat something like the Windrush scandal in 2018.https://cnn.it/3hKdD3z
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Between 1948 and 1971, people who had come to the UK legally from the Commonwealth -- but did not have paperwork to show their right to remain -- were harassed, and sometimes wrongly jailed or deported. Read more here:https://cnn.it/3eoXjTK
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More than half (55%) of White respondents said they trusted something like it would not happen again, while the same percentage of Black respondents said they did not.https://cnn.it/311BtBT
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Black people are almost twice as likely as White people to say the UK has not done enough to address historical racial injustice. Two out of three (64%) Black people said so, compared to one out of three (35%) White people.https://cnn.it/3hKdD3z
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Sharpening the contrast further, Black people are three times as likely as White people to say the UK has “not done anywhere near enough” to address historical racial injustice: https://cnn.it/3hKdD3z pic.twitter.com/XSktSa0SQb
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Anti-racism activist Nova Reid said CNN’s findings show something that Black people have long known about perceptions of racism in Britain. “We have an unhealthy culture in the UK that calling out racism is more offensive than racism itself," she said.https://cnn.it/3hKdD3z
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The outpouring of pent-up frustration about racism following George Floyd's death, offers hope, according to Reid. “The momentum feels different... People are more confident to speak up... There are people who want to wake up and see change.”https://cnn.it/3hKdD3z
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To read more on Britain confronting racism and about the poll findings, follow this link:https://cnn.it/2B1t2M6
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