Support for Black Lives Matter Growing Amoung Young White Adults

Eighty-five percent of African-American young adults now say they support the protesters.

The GenForward survey of adults age 18 to 30 is conducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The GenForward Survey bills itself as “the first of its kind” that “pays special attention to how race and ethnicity shape how respondents experience and think about the world”. He also vehemently disagreed with the idea that Black Lives Matter’s rhetoric encourages violence against police. But views vary among those of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

That might also explain why a full two-thirds of white Americans aged 18 to 31 believe that the Black Lives Matter movement may lead to violence against police, compared to less than half of minorities within the same age group.

Among young whites, more call violence against the police a serious problem, 63 percent.

Blacks constituted 62 percent of all robbery defendants in America’s 75 largest counties in 2009, 57 percent of all murder defendants and 45 percent of all assault defendants, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, even though blacks comprise only 15 percent of the population in those counties.

In the days after that interview, Beck invited a number of Black Lives Matter believers on his show, where he “got to know them as people”. Only 40% of millennial white Americans saw recent killings as part of a trend, compared to more 51% of Latinos, 61% of Asian Americans, and 82% of African Americans. Most young adults of color who backed the Vermont Senator in his bid for the nation’s highest office now support Clinton, while many white Sanders backers are looking elsewhere-in particular, to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

White Americans surveyed were less likely than other groups to agree that “setting stricter criteria for use of deadly force by officers” and “limiting police use of military equipment” would be effective deterrents of police violence. Young Asian-Americans and Hispanics are also more likely to trust Clinton than Trump on both.

A poll suggests that support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults.

That’s an increase in support among young whites over the past few months, after 41 percent of them said they supported Black Lives Matter in June. While this is encouraging, a staggering set of statistics emerged from the same study, among them: 66 percent of young, white adults think BLM’s rhetoric encourages violence against the police.