Thursday, May 08, 2025

Poll: Views in the 5 Years Since George Floyd's Killing

May 25 marks five years since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis.

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... In June 2020, more than eight-in-ten U.S. adults said they were following news about the demonstrations "very" (42%) or "fairly" closely (42%). This was similar to the high level of attention Americans had been paying to news about COVID-19. ...

Five years later, 72% say the increased focus on race and racial inequality after Floyd's killing did not lead to changes that improved the lives of Black people.1

The share of Americans who express support for the Black Lives Matter movement stands at 52% today, a drop of 15 percentage points compared with June 2020.

Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has also declined. Companies have pulled back on DEI initiatives, and workers' views of them have grown more negative. This was the case even before President Donald Trump signed an executive order eliminating DEI policies in the federal government and urging the private sector to do the same.

More broadly, some Americans have grown more pessimistic that Black people will eventually have equal rights with White people.

Among those who say the country hasn't made enough progress on racial equality, 49% express doubt that Black people will ever have equal rights with White people, up from 39% in 2020. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-07 08:23 PM

@#1 ... More broadly, some Americans have grown more pessimistic that Black people will eventually have equal rights with White people. ...

Why?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-07 08:24 PM

re: #2 Lamplighter

Trump and his supporters have disappointed us in Amerian humanity

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-07 08:48 PM

5 Years Since George Floyd's Killing

So, we can finally tell those jokes we've been saving for the last five years? Too soon?

I wonder if Floyd would have voted for Kamala, or if he would have joined the 55% of Black men who decided to stay at home (compared to 2020)/vote for Trump.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-07 09:03 PM

fcnk, let's try this again...

Trump and his supporters have disappointed us in American humanity

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-07 09:12 PM

"Among those who say the country hasn't made enough progress on racial equality, 49% express doubt that Black people will ever have equal rights with White people, up from 39% in 2020. ..."

Exactly what rights are those that whites have that blacks don't?

#6 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-08 10:27 AM

more people know he was a rapist / women beating doper.

who was complaining that he "couldn't breath ' before he got out of the car but was still more important to democrat
trash than women and children being raped and murdered and thrown
in a ditch.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-08 11:46 AM

Back in the Golden Age, in the Old Republic (before the Empire, before the Dark Times) 75% of of people answered yes to "Race relations are doing fine."

That lasted for thirty years. Today it's 25%.

Recently, in a Rasmussen poll, 49% of Blacks answered "No", to the question "Is it okay to be white?"

That's what the woke movement and identity politics did to our country. For thirty years we had a color blind society. Now we have Hitler identity politics.

#8 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-08 10:13 PM

George Floyd's murder really brings up the old question; i.e. if you don't see it on TV did it really happen? George Floyd's case was tragic but how many similar cases occurred that we never saw on TV? Perhaps we shouldn't just focus on those police officers involved in his brutal murder but realise we have problems in law ebforcement that a civilised society needs to address....including immigration police! Just lately on national news we've watched human rights violations committed under the dieection of the President. What kind of America are we creating when we deport small children with Stage 4 cancer, without their mrds, without allowing consultation with a lawyer, without allowing phone calls to relatives? MAGAhaters, I ask you....is this what you want?

#9 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-09 09:10 AM

5 years sober!
You go girl!

#10 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2025-05-09 09:33 AM

Censored, you've been free this whole time to tell jokes about Fenty Floyd. It hasn't stopped the rest of us from mentioning how this degenerate had a sordid past:

According to Daily Mail (UK), the court report mentions that the victim identified George as the criminal, tallest of all the robbers, who pressed a pistol to her stomach and forced his way into the house. George Floyd's height was 6 foot 6 inches.

The Left really picks the most idiotic individuals and propels them to golden calf status mainly bc as people they're collectively lost.

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 09:35 AM

Remember all the stupid leftist's having struggle sessions outside in front of black people? Good times lolololol

#12 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 09:37 AM

Remember when the brain dead------------- choked out Herman Cain? That was awesome.

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-09 09:39 AM

Exactly what rights are those that whites have that blacks don't?

#6 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-08 10:27 AM | Reply

The right to not get shot to death by the police for holding a cell phone.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-09 09:46 AM

No Rein, I remember Herman dying of Covid. Perhaps you need anti-psychotics as well.

#15 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 09:49 AM

this degenerate had a sordid past:

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Donald Trump is a degenerate with a sordid past.

Maybe someone will choke him to death someday.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 09:50 AM

Five years after this remains true: Floyd should have escaped that encounter with his life

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 09:52 AM

Based on the evidence of her posts, Bluewaffles is a degenerate. What a terrible person

#18 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-09 09:53 AM

Being a bad person is not a death sentence. Well, that's what normal people believe, not MAGA. They do the same thing with Kilmar Garcia. See, he's a bad guy so the 5th amendment doesn't apply to him.

MAGA has no morals.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-09 09:53 AM

Zed, Donald Trump doesn't hand out fake twenties at convenient stores nor does he do enough Fent to literally kill a horse; so sorry to let you down. Also initial autopsy said he died of heart failure (well no ---- he died of heart failure when you have that much fent in your system). Chauvin is a -------- but Fenty Floyd dug his own pathetic grave.

#20 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 09:54 AM

Bluewaffles is a degenerate.

#18 | Posted by hamburglar

Let's kill him. Who's in?

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 09:55 AM

No morals, no laws, just avarice and sadism

#22 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-09 09:56 AM

Fenty Floyd dug his own pathetic grave.

#20 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 202

As did Chauvin, the man who killed him.

I am failing to catch your point here.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 09:57 AM

He hates n------, that's his point.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-09 09:58 AM

re: #21 Zed

Who do you think we are, cops?!? Miranda is/was, maybe you should consult with her first

#25 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-09 09:58 AM

its an amazing coincidence that all the "bad" people MAGA hates and dehumanizes are brown.

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-09 10:01 AM

" Chauvin is a --------"
cuz he got caught you mean. the man is a murderer ffs. its like calling a serial killer "rude".

#27 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-05-09 10:02 AM

"this degenerate had a sordid past"

That's a lot of words for "He's black."

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-09 10:11 AM

Snoofy, I have one black friend so I'm not racist.

#29 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 11:50 AM

I have one black friend so I'm not racist.

#29 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Your friend hasn't convinced you to leave a racist movement?

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 12:54 PM

Well Zed, my black friend has told me he's experienced more racism in blue states where he's previously lived as opposed to the red state he presently lives in so ...

#31 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 01:45 PM

Always good to have an imaginary friend to support your arguments.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-09 01:59 PM

#31 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Yeah. But did he urge you to leave a racist movement?

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 02:00 PM

told me he's experienced more racism in blue states where he's previously lived as opposed to the red state he presently lives in so ...

#31 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Tell me what Red State he lives in and I'll tell you how much bullsh-- you're spreading.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-09 02:01 PM

No Rein, I remember Herman dying of Covid. Perhaps you need anti-psychotics as well.

#15 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Do you remember where he caught it? At a maskless rally for the terrible leader who mocked mask wearing.

#35 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-09 02:42 PM

No ---- Speaks, a lot of people caught and I'm sure a few died of Covid from the struggle sessions fo black peepo back in 2020.

#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-05-09 04:28 PM

The right to not get shot to death by the police for holding a cell phone.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite a

DAMN STRAIGHT>........a punk of any color should be able to call his dealer

and get some more dope to celebrate beating up his pregnant old lady.

#37 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-09 04:31 PM

Always good to have an imaginary friend to support your arguments.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL

sure thing.....ask biden about his imaginary buddy trying to shake his hand

if you can't find him and get up a seance to talk to the long time dead peple

biden used to talk to....

SPEAKING OF TERRORISTS....( ?? ).........2 DEM REPS INVOLVED IN RUSHING ICE DETAINMENT

CENTER....dems are about to force the topic...." draw your weapons"....and it

WILL NOT BE Trump's fault.

#38 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-09 04:39 PM

WILL NOT BE Trump's fault.

#38 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Nothing ever is. Not his stock market (unless it goes up). Not his bankruptcies. Not his hiding classified documents. Not his rapes. Not his 15 years of partying with epstein. Not his crimes. Not his affairs. Not his corruption. Not his coup attempt.

Biden did all of it. Just like biden put the skidmarks in your underwear.

#39 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-09 05:20 PM

Nothing ever is. Not his stock market (unless it goes up). Not his bankruptcies. Not his hiding classified documents. Not his rapes. Not his 15 years of partying with epstein. Not his crimes. Not his affairs. Not his corruption. Not his coup attempt.
Biden did all of it. Just like biden put the skidmarks in your underwear.
#39 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

#facts

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-09 05:24 PM

No Rein, I remember Herman dying of Covid

The-------------'s klan rallies were superspreaders.

#41 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-09 05:39 PM

Herman Cain was killed by big Vaxx!

#42 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-09 06:05 PM

The only remaining racism and ongoing divide in America comes from leftist radical Democrats and haters like Joe Biden. Both Black Americans and White Americans know it.

#43 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-09 07:19 PM

The only remaining racism and ongoing divide in America comes from leftist radical Democrats and haters like Joe Biden. Both Black Americans and White Americans know it.

#43 | Posted by Robson

Trump/Putin 101 - accuse your enemy of your own crimes

#44 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-09 07:23 PM

rollcall.com
^^^^^^^^^^
The racist------------- did this for his bigoted base.

#45 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-09 07:23 PM

Remember how the media lied that protesting this criminals death wouldn't spread COVID but protesting the COVID lockdowns themselves would spread COVID?

I remember. I also remember those idiots on i5 getting rekt after they tried to shut down the highway to allow for these protests

#46 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-05-09 07:39 PM

Remember how the media lied that protesting this criminals death wouldn't spread COVID but protesting the COVID lockdowns themselves would spread COVID?

#46 | Posted by THEBULL

I don't remember that. I remember the media listing out a list of gatherings by risk level where outdoor events were accurately rated as less risky than indoor events.

#47 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-09 07:47 PM

Based on MSM George Floyd was a violent left wing criminal that set a poor example of character and behavior. Democrat racist manipulators absurdly set him up as a phony hero with a gold carriage funeral so as to divide America where criminals are good and majority law abiding as bad.

Keep these manipulators put of power and society will unite and improve.

#48 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-10 11:45 AM

George Floyd was a violent left wing criminal that set a poor example of character and behavior

And?

He deserved to die?

What exactly made him "left wing"? His skin color?

#49 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-10 12:19 PM

It is black and white and not race except to his followers. His followers made him left wing because they had no sense and neither did he. His skin color had nothing to do with anything but for his lack of sense and criminal mind and lack of values had everything. He took on the justice system and police and in most jurisdictions that is illegal and dangerous . Everything that followed was politics and the left tried to blame it on race. When police are resisted the outcome to them is dangerous and an unknown always, mostly because they deal with criminal trash daily of all breeds. It can easily lead to bad outcomes. Don't resist, but the left loves to resist.

#50 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-10 03:46 PM

"When police are resisted"

George Floyd was not resisting.

He was in the police car, in handcuffs.

He was taken out of the car, put on the ground, and suffocated by office Chauvin's knee on his neck for eight minutes.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-10 03:50 PM

Surveillance video of the moments leading up to George Floyd being pinned under a policeman's knee shows that he didn't resist arrest
www.businessinsider.com

#52 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-10 03:54 PM

Re 50

Another Robotson word salad full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Another empty performance, a tale told by an idiot, ultimately lacking any real substance or purpose.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-10 03:55 PM

" The Left really picks the most idiotic individuals and propels them to golden calf status mainly bc as people they're collectively lost.
#11 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES AT 2025-05-09 09:35 AM | FLAG: "

Michael Brown.

Maryland man

The degenerates Rittenhouse shot in self defense.

I could go on and on ...

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-10 08:49 PM

Patricide Jeff worships a------------ with a body count of 1.2 million Americans.

#55 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-10 08:56 PM

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