Asked if there is “a problem with systemic racism in America,” nearly every demographic group says yes more often than not. The only groups that say no more often than not are on the right.
Ashows that white Americans are just as likely to favor as to oppose a ban on teaching Advanced Placement courses in African American studies in public schools — the same sort of ban that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently threatened to implement in Florida, unleashing a storm of national controversy.
. “Now who would say that an important part of Black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda.”In response, critics have explained that the concepts and scholars that DeSantis slammed as “divisive” are in fact, as“[These are] complicated works of sociology and philosophy. They’re highly contested polemics,” Joshua Zeitz
These gaps reflect a deeper divide between Republicans and Democrats — and, to a degree, between white and black Americans — over the role of race in America today., the product of one individual discriminating against another. The rest of the country mostly agrees that racism is still, a force that continues to harm people of color, regardless of how isolated individuals treat them.
The reason for this wariness becomes clear when respondents are shown a list of specific topics drawn from the AP African American studies draft framework — and then asked to say “which U.S. public high school students you think they are appropriate for: No students, only students enrolled in an Advanced Placement African-American studies course, or all students.”
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