More than two-thirds of Americans believe it has become more common for people to say racist things since President Trump won the White House, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
President Donald Trump addresses a camapgin rally at Huntington Tri-State Airport in West Virginia on Nov. 2, 2018.WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say President Donald Trump has made race relations worse during his time in the White House, and more than two-thirds believe it has become more common for people to say racist things since he won the White House.
Only one-fourth, or 25 percent, said Barack Obama, a Democrat and the country's first black president, made race relations worse. Trump, a Republican, has been dogged by racial turmoil during his time in office, including the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a protest against a Confederate statue and the administration's reaction to illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.
The gulf increased when Americans were asked whether the country has gone far enough in giving black people rights equal to those of white people. Overall, more than 2 in 5 Americans, or 45 percent, said they believe that the United States hasn't gone far enough, but 78 percent of black people agreed with that while only 37 percent of white people thought that statement was true.
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