How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter



The New York Times, June 10, 2020

American public opinion can sometimes seem stubborn. Voters haven’t really changed their views on abortion in 50 years. Donald J. Trump’s approval rating among registered voters has fallen within a five-point range for just about every day of his presidency.
But the Black Lives Matter movement has been an exception from the start.
Public opinion on race and criminal justice issues has been steadily moving left since the first protests ignited over the fatal shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. And since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25, public opinion on race, criminal justice and the Black Lives Matter movement has leaped leftward.
Over the last two weeks, support for Black Lives Matter increased by nearly as much as it had over the previous two years, according to data from Civiqs, an online survey research firm. By a 28-point margin, Civiqs finds that a majority of American voters support the movement, up from a 17-point margin before the most recent wave of protests began.
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Western civilization is surrendering to the barbarians without fignting a singlWe battle. Black Lives Matter is a movement based on two misconceptions. First, blacks are far more likely to be killed by other blacks than by white policemen. Second, the only reason a higher percentage of blacks are killed by the police than whites is because blacks have a crime rate that is eight times the white crime rate. 
The George Floyd riots resulted in at least 22 deaths, and at least $400 million dollars in damage. 

Millions of whites are not angry at the rioters. They are angry at the policeman who killed a career criminal at the scene of his most recent crime, a career criminal who, like so many other black men abandoned his son. 






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