aren't we?

or everyone of every other generation. The article says that millenials are about the same as other generations, not worse.

..... the problem is that they're also probably more likely to believe that racial equality exists, so they aren't as likely to recognize the problems.

on the surface it might seem better because of the "colorblind" thing, but when people study and ask questions about beliefs, it's about the same.

What this "shatters" is any notion that the killer was a decent human being. That's it.

It says nothing about whether millennials are more or less racist than preceding generations. WTF, even I am annoyed by millennials at times but no way am I going to make some kind of grand proclamation based on this horrible incident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/07/white-millennials-are-just-about-as-racist-as-their-parents/

Look at the answers to the questions that were asked.

one data point - that Dylann Roof is a racist piece of shit - doesn't shatter the "entrenched myth".

Acknowledging that, as a society, millennials are more tolerant, is not the same as saying that ALL millennials are tolerant.

Sid

as referenced in the article (and there's more specific info if you click the link.) Their generation is about the same as other generations. Your personal feelings about it are not more authoritative than studies done by professionals.

maybe you want to post the data you've seen as well.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/millenials-race-115909.html

News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the rise. But many claim there’s a glimmer of hope: The next generation of Americans, they say, is “post-racial”—more tolerant, and therefore more capable of easing these race-based inequities. Unfortunately, closer examination of the data suggests that millennials aren’t racially tolerant, they’re racially apathetic: They simply ignore structural racism rather than try to fix it.

In 2010, a Pew Research report trumpeted that “the younger generation is more racially tolerant than their elders.” In the Chicago Tribune, Ted Gregory seized on this to declare millennials “the most tolerant generation in history.” These types of arguments typically cling to the fact that young people are more likely than their elders to favor interracial marriage. But while millennials are indeed less likely than baby boomers to say that more people of different races marrying each other is a change for the worse (6 percent compared to 14 percent), their opinions on that score are basically no different than those of the generation immediately before them, the Gen Xers, who come in at 5 percent. On interracial dating, the trend is similar, with 92 percent of Gen Xers saying it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date each other,” compared to 93 percent of millennials.

Furthermore, these questions don’t really say anything about racial justice: After all, interracial dating and marriage are unlikely to solve deep disparities in criminal justice, wealth, upward mobility, poverty and education—at least not in this century. (Black-white marriages currently make up just 2.2 percent of all marriages.) And when it comes to opinions on more structural issues, such as the role of government in solving social and economic inequality and the need for continued progress, millennials start to split along racial lines. When people are asked, for example, “How much needs to be done in order to achieve Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality?” the gap between white millennials and millennials of color (all those who don’t identify as white) are wide. And once again, millennials are shown to be no more progressive than older generations: Among millennials, 42 percent of whites answer that “a lot” must be done to achieve racial equality, compared to 41 percent of white Gen Xers and 44 percent of white boomers.

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In a 2009 study using American National Election Studies—a survey of Americans before and after each presidential election—Vincent Hutchings finds, “younger cohorts of Whites are no more racially liberal in 2008 than they were in 1988.” My own analysis of the most recent data reveals a similar pattern: Gaps between young whites and old whites on support for programs that aim to further racial equality are very small compared to the gaps between young whites and young blacks.

It doesn't speak to the views they hold about other races.

for instance it talks about how feelings about interracial marriage and dating are about the same between millennial and gen xers.

And this is in the first article I posted as well:

When it comes to explicit prejudice against blacks, non-Hispanic white millennial are not much different than whites belonging to Generation X (born 1965-1980) or Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964). White millennial (using a definition of being born after 1980) express the least prejudice on 4 out of 5 measures in the survey, but only by a matter of 1 to 3 percentage points, not a meaningful difference. On work ethic, 31 percent of millennial rate blacks as lazier than whites, compared to 32 percent of Generation X whites and 35 percent of Baby Boomers.

You can see the answers to other questions here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/07/white-millennials-are-just-about-as-racist-as-their-parents/

But it's also about structural racism, which is about "what we need to do," which requires you to see it as a problem. Part of structural racism is not recognizing that we have a lot of work to do in this country.

I think that's the point. By pushing the "color blind" myth, those of us in earlier generations have let them down. We should have been talking about racism all along instead of hoping they just wouldn't see race.

as a general rule.

has gone further to fan the flames in the reprisal of racial intolerance. With the election of Obama and the disrespect he has received from those on the right- they have sent the signal that it is okay to once again drag ones bigoted thoughts, feelings, words and actions out into the open.

http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/

certainly won't happen within the lifetime of anyone posting on this board as of today.

represents Muslims or the Beltway Snipers represented black Americans.

It does not claim he represents all millennials.

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