Support for the Black Lives Matter movement fell to a new low in polling released Wednesday, with most respondents saying an increased focus on race since 2020 hasn’t improved Black lives.
That’s the lowest level of support the nonprofit research center has recorded since it started polling the issue in August 2017. Pew recorded the previous low of support for“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 summary of the findings.
That represents a shift from the September 2020 poll, when 52% told Pew they thought an increased focus on race would bring about positive change and 46% predicted it would not. While Republican attitudes toward this last question barely moved over the past three years, Pew noted a strong swing toward pessimism among Democrats and Blacks responding to the surveys. Nevertheless, 81% of Black Americans polled this year said they supportOverall, only 31% of respondents said they understand the goals of themovement “extremely” or “very” well. One-third of those surveyed described the movement as “dangerous” and 34% called it “divisive.
Pew conducted the nationally representative survey of 5,073 adult members of its American Trends Panel on April 10-16.
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