POLL: Support for Black Lives Matter is Plummeting
Jose Nino
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A new poll by the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that support Black Lives Matter has been dwindling since April 2021, especially among African Americans.Â
These figures came right before the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
The poll was conducted by YouGov between May 5 and 9. It revealed that support for BLM’s goals had fallen from 48% to 31%.
Similarly, support for BLM’s strategies and tactics fell from 40% to 31%.
Some of the starkest declines in support for BLM were present among African American respondents to this survey. African Americans’ support for BLM’s goals fell from 67% to 56% since April 2021.
In a similar vein, African Americans’ support for BLM’s strategies and tactics dropped from 65% to 49% in this timeframe.
“While Black Lives Matter signs still adorn lawns from coast to coast, Americans may be growing tired of the Black Lives Matter movement as support for the strategies, tactics and goals of the movement have experienced a precipitous decline in the past year across demographic and political groups,” declared Tatishe Nteta, a political science professor at UMass Amherst and the director of the poll.
“As incidents of violent crime have increased in the past year and with President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party calling for the use of unused stimulus funds to be directed to police departments across the country, it is no surprise that the public’s one-time enthusiasm for policies designed to bring about wholescale changes to the nation’s police departments has waned in the past year,” Nteta continued.
“What is somewhat surprising is that this decline is seen across the board, with ardent supporters of police reforms such as progressives, Democrats, African Americans and young Americans also exhibiting a decrease in their support for these changes. The movement for police reform may have experienced its zenith of support in the United States.”
It’s clear that the BLM saturnalia is coming to an end. Americans can only take so much rioting, looting, and anti-white hate. However, the fight against BLM and other appendages of the cultural Left is far from over.Â
The populist Right must be ready to go to war against the NGO industrial complex. It will have to go after the big funders of these organizations and limit the kind of influence they have on state and local politics. More importantly, state and local governments must double down on law and order and not let these people run off with impunity.
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