The First Tenet
Let us begin with beliefs about the first tenet's clam of equal opportunity to pursue one's dream African Americans are a little more skeptical of the claim in general since about 10 percent fewer blacks than whites agree that '' a worker's child has some chance to get ahead or that chances for success are distributed fairly But blacks and whites diverge more sharply when they consider racial discrimination Blacks see more racial discrimination than do whites Whites perception of racial discrimination varied widely in 1960 and seldom do more than a third now believe that blacks continue to experience racist treatment in jobs housing the media or the criminal justice system Blacks saw it then and continue to see it now For example only a handful