Study shows blacks don't share similar views of world - USATODAY.com: NEW YORK — As a black man, John Bess says it has been important for him to know much about the white world, yet he says whites have not been so curious about his.
'We've always known what's happening in the white sector,' says Bess, a 56-year-old consultant in New York City, 'but they (whites) have no idea who we are, what we're about. … My mother may take one position and I take another and my brother takes another. You have to talk to the segments of our community.'
A study out Friday provides a nuanced portrait of black Americans' social views, consumer tastes and notions of identity, undermining the idea that most black Americans share a similar world view
