NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) – Up to 77 percent of African Americans believe the descendants of enslaved people in U.S. history should be compensated in some way, the USA Today newspaper reported Monday, citing a poll by the United States. Pew Research Center.
However, most respondents don’t believe blacks will get this remedy, despite this goal being long pursued by this ethnic group and some American officials, it reads.
“Overall, black adults say they are pessimistic about the likelihood of getting compensation, but a large majority say the US federal government must take all or most of the responsibility for compensation,” the Pew Institute said.
About 45% of blacks in the United States think that equality will not come true. Additionally, nearly 9 out of 10 black adults want some aspects of the courts and other parts of the criminal justice system to be reformed.
The New York Amsterdam News, an African American weekly, reported Tuesday that black Americans remain largely overrepresented in the US prison population.
Citing a study by the NGO Sentencing Project, it indicates that in 2019, black Americans represented 14% of the American population, but 33% of the total prison population and 46% of the prison population who had already served at least ten years in prison. .
“The overrepresentation of black Americans in the long-term prison population stems in part from racial disparities in serious criminal offenses,” said researcher Nazgol Ghandnoosh, chief analyst at the Sentencing Project and co-author of the study. end
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