Last week, SurveyUSA released results gauging how the respect Americans have for several famous people. It was measured on a ten-point scale, the higher the score, the greater the reported respect. Observations were only recorded for respondents who said they were familiar with the person being asked about in each case.

A few interesting observations:

– Blacks have more respect for Colin Kaepernick than they do for Abraham Lincoln. Non-blacks have greater respect for the dead president than they do for the Nike spokesman:

Most blacks like it here. More than they like the idea of being shipped off to Monrovia, anyway!

– Blacks have more respect for David Duke than they do for Donald Trump. Non-blacks have greater respect for the living president than they do for the former congressman:

– This isn’t merely authorial prestidigitation by way of Trump’s relatively strong support among whites, either. To the contrary, Duke gets modestly more respect from non-whites than he does from whites:

– More worrisome is the trend by age. The flame of youth is fueled by a growing supply of hate. There is much these young punks should learn from their wise elders:

– The late John McCain, mass murderer who never possessed a knife he didn’t want to plunge into the back of a putative ally, gets the most respect from Democrats and the least from Republicans:

– Finally, respect among blacks for the 2020 Democrat hopefuls the survey inquired about:

Candidate BlkRespect Joe Biden 7.8 Bernie Sanders 7.7 Elizabeth Warren 7.0 Kamala Harris 6.9 Beto O’Rourke 6.4

Yeah, I predicted a Kamala Harris nomination. Mind passing the salt for this crow?