Nearly 75% of New York voters say racial and religious minority groups experience discrimination in the state. That’s according to a report released yesterday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
A Siena College survey of 800 voters finds that the increasingly negative view of race relations in New York spans racial, community and political affiliation.
The survey results come after a rash of anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York.
Nearly 40% of Latino and 60% of black respondents say they’ve experienced unfair treatment because of their race in the last year.
Researcher Steven Greenberg says the margin of voters who report discrimination “would not make Dr. King proud.”
