Pew survey reveals help for BLM motion drops to new low

Support for the Black Lives Matter motion fell to a brand new low in polling launched Wednesday, with most respondents saying an elevated deal with race since 2020 hasn’t improved Black lives.

Among adults responding to the newest Pew Research Center survey, 51% mentioned they help BLM, down from 56% in a March 2022 ballot and the high-water mark of 67% recorded in June 2020 after the homicide of George Floyd in police custody. Another 46% mentioned they oppose BLM, a brand new excessive.

That’s the bottom degree of help the nonprofit analysis middle has recorded because it began polling the difficulty in August 2017. Pew recorded the earlier low of help for BLM (55%) 3 times in its August 2017, September 2020 and September 2021 polls.

“A majority of Americans say the increased focus on issues of race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn’t led to changes that have improved the lives of Black people,” Pew researchers Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst and Dana Braga wrote in a abstract of the findings.

The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on Twitter 10 years in the past, Pew famous.

The newest survey discovered that 57% of adults mentioned the elevated deal with race over the previous three years has not led to significant change for Black Americans. Another 40% disagreed, saying the deal with race had improved the lives of Blacks.

That represents a shift from the September 2020 ballot, when 52% informed Pew they thought an elevated deal with race would result in optimistic change and 46% predicted it might not.

While Republican attitudes towards this final query barely moved over the previous three years, Pew famous a powerful swing towards pessimism amongst Democrats and Blacks responding to the surveys. Nevertheless, 81% of Black Americans polled this yr mentioned they help BLM, making them the likeliest of any racial or ethnic group to favor the motion.

Overall, solely 31% of respondents mentioned they perceive the objectives of the BLM motion “extremely” or “very” properly. One-third of these surveyed described the motion as “dangerous” and 34% known as it “divisive.” Another 88% mentioned they’d seen movies of police brutality in opposition to Blacks, with most saying it negatively impacted their belief within the police.