In December 1963, even after the assassination of Medgar Evers and the KKK bombing of a Baptist church that year, a poll found that 70% of black people believed that race relations between black and white people would eventually be worked out. Only 26% believed otherwise.
In 2021, after one black man in the White House, and another black woman there now, with 59 black members of Congress, and a third of America's biggest cities being run by black mayors, 59% of black people believe race relations are doomed.