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Most Black people's views of race and racism in the UK are profoundly different from those of White people, according to a sweeping and exclusive new CNN/Savanta ComRes poll. cnn.it/2Z03ruX

It confirmed what many Black Britons have always known about living in Britain: That White people have no idea how racist it is. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

CNN and Savanta ComRes surveyed 1,535 British adults aged 18 and up online from June 12-14, including at least 500 Black and other ethnic minority respondents. The margin of error on the full sample is ± 2.5 percentage points. Here are the key findings: cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Black people are twice as likely as White people to say they personally have not been treated with respect by police, with half (49%) of Black people and a quarter (26%) of White people indicating that experience. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Black people are twice as likely as White people to say British police are institutionally racist -- but even among White people, just over a quarter of people believe it: 27% of White people said so, while 54% of Black people did. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

CNN’s poll found Black people are more than twice as likely as White people to say they are offended by statues of people who were involved in the slave trade or colonization: Two-thirds of Black people said so, while only about a third of White people did cnn.it/3hKdD3z

And Black people are about twice as likely as White people to support the taking down of such statues, either by demonstrators or by the authorities. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Black people are more than twice as likely as White people to say there is too little representation of Black people in the media: Two-thirds (67%) of Black people indicate that, compared to a quarter (27%) of White people. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Black people are more than twice as likely as White people to support the removal from streaming services of TV shows that use blackface, as the BBC did this month with the comedy “Little Britain.” cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Black respondents to CNN’s poll were significantly more likely than White people to say Boris Johnson’s governing Conservative Party is institutionally racist, although a significant minority of White people agreed. cnn.it/2CviANv

58% of Black people and 39% of White people said the Conservative party was institutionally racist. By contrast, roughly a third of each group believe the opposition Labour Party is institutionally racist. cnn.it/2CviANv

Black and White respondents have exactly opposite views on whether they trust the UK government not to repeat something like the Windrush scandal in 2018. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Between 1948 and 1971, people who had come to the UK legally from the Commonwealth -- but did not have paperwork to show their right to remain -- were harassed, and sometimes wrongly jailed or deported.

Read more here: cnn.it/3eoXjTK

More than half (55%) of White respondents said they trusted something like it would not happen again, while the same percentage of Black respondents said they did not. cnn.it/311BtBT

Black people are almost twice as likely as White people to say the UK has not done enough to address historical racial injustice. Two out of three (64%) Black people said so, compared to one out of three (35%) White people. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Sharpening the contrast further, Black people are three times as likely as White people to say the UK has “not done anywhere near enough” to address historical racial injustice: cnn.it/3hKdD3z

Anti-racism activist Nova Reid said CNN’s findings show something that Black people have long known about perceptions of racism in Britain.

“We have an unhealthy culture in the UK that calling out racism is more offensive than racism itself," she said. cnn.it/3hKdD3z

The outpouring of pent-up frustration about racism following George Floyd's death, offers hope, according to Reid. “The momentum feels different... People are more confident to speak up... There are people who want to wake up and see change.” cnn.it/3hKdD3z

To read more on Britain confronting racism and about the poll findings, follow this link: cnn.it/2B1t2M6