As a way to measure people’s optimism or pessimism I sometimes ask black people what percentage of white Americans they think would, in a completely anonymous ballot, vote to deport every last one of us. I expected people to guess 30-40%.



The average estimate is around 80... 🇺🇸

It occurs to me, though, the really interesting thing would be to ask white people what percentage of white people they believe would anonymously vote to deport every African American in this country.

No, I’m not going to do a twitter poll on this question. That would defeat the purpose. But as a thought exercise I find it really interesting.