Two-thirds of Americans support banning police chokeholds, but a majority do NOT approve of slavery reparations or renaming military bases
By Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
June 19, 2020
A new poll has found that most Americans
support banning police use of chokeholds, while a majority are opposed
to renaming military bases that are named for Confederate generals.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll of 727 statistically representative U.S. adults was conducted this week and released on Friday.
The poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans, or 63 percent, support 'banning the use of chokeholds by police officers'.
That included a clear majority of all demographic groups, with the highest support from black Americans at 71 percent.
Republicans were split on the question, with 51 percent supporting a ban and 48 percent opposing one.
Earlier
this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that bans
police from using chokeholds except for in instances when their lives
are at risk.
Meanwhile, the poll found
that 56 percent of Americans oppose 'changing the names of U.S. military
bases that are named after Confederate leaders'.
Independents are more opposed to renaming bases than supportive, with 59 percent opposed to the move.
The majority of African Americans support renaming the bases, however, with 67 percent in favor of the move.
Earlier this month, Trump vowed that he would never allow bases such as Fort Benning and Fort Bragg to be renamed.
In
all, 10 military bases are named for generals of the Confederacy, most
of whom were respected U.S. military officers before the nation split in
the Civil War.
The third question on
the poll examined attitudes toward reparations for slavery, finding that
the vast majority opposed paying reparations to the descendants of
slaves.
The poll found 73 percent of
people think the federal government should not 'pay money to black
Americans whose ancestors were slaves as compensations for that
slavery'.
Only about one in eight white Americans support reparations compared to three-quarters of African Americans.
Democrats are split on reparations, with 54 percent in favor and 45 percent opposed.
The vast majority of Republicans oppose the move at 94 percent, and 82 percent of Independents were also opposed.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Biden said last week that he was in favor of paying slavery reparations
to African Americans and Native Americans if studies found direct cash
payments to be a viable option.
'If,
in fact, there are ways to get direct payments for reparations, I want
to see it,' Biden said during a virtual town hall meeting. 'But why are
we waiting around for the study? We can deal with this stuff.'
Trump
has previously said that he thinks the concept of the federal
government giving reparations to the descendants of slaves is 'unusual'
and 'interesting' but he doesn't 'see it happening.'
EDITOR'S NOTE: OK, so blacks favor renaming military bases named after Confederate generals, but if you asked tthem about:
P. G. T. Beauregard
Henry L. Benning
Braxton Bragg
John Brown Gordon
A.P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Robert E. Lee
George Pickett
Leonidas Polk
Edmund Rucker
Except for Lee, they wouldn't have the foggiest idea of who in the fuck that was. And most whies wouldn't either.
2 comments:
Somebody finally realized that there was a Confederate Statue on the Galveston County Courthouse lawn. Black protesters covered it with a sheet yesterday. I'm sure it will fall soon. A bill making it illegal to remove or deface historical monuments stalled in the legislature this past session. Governor Abbott has been very quiet about it.
I personally would have no problem kicking down some money to any people who were actually held as slaves in the United States. Any such people would be 155 years old now, so there are probably none. So your great grandmother was a slave. My great grandfather died fighting to free her. It sort of evens out IMHO.
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