NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Monday is Martin Luther King Jr Day, and we're just a couple months short of the fiftieth anniversary of his death to a racist assassin.
So, how has Dr. King's message that, "we must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools" played out?
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A new Siena College poll found only about one in three New Yorkers find race relations excellent or good, down twenty points from just 6 years ago.
Two-thirds of New Yorkers agreed that minorities suffer racial or ethnic discrimination, and about a third of people polled said they'd been treated unfairly because of those factors, or their gender or sexual orientation.
"Three in ten New Yorkers – including nearly half of black New Yorkers and more than one-third of Latino New Yorkers say they have personally been treated unfairly in the last year because of their race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation," Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said. "That goes a long way to explaining why so many New Yorkers have a negative view about race relations in the state."
Seven in ten New Yorkers say sexual harassment on the job is a significant problem.
"Why do more than two-thirds of New Yorkers think sexual harassment is a significant problem? Maybe it's because nearly one-third of all New Yorkers and almost half of all female New Yorkers say that they have been a victim of sexual harassment," Greenberg said.
Greenberg said that while polls show that people are able to recognize problems, more work needs to be done on solving them.
