4 Percent who say 2020 – 2022: AMERICA IN A STATE OF CONSTANT ELEVATED ANXIETY OVER RACISM 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Business and Racial Justice in America. Q1. How concerned are you about systemic racism and racial injustice in this country? 7-point scale. General population, U.S. Data is a sum of codes 5-7. May 2022 data came from a separate flash poll conducted between May 17 and 20, 2022. I am concerned about systemic racism and racial injustice in this country 79 63 69 65 64 62 67 June 2020 Aug 2020 Sept 2020 Apr 2021 June 2021 April 2022 May 2022 Racially -motivated mass shooting at Tops grocery store in Buffalo, NY Concerns re- ignite following shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI First wave fielded 2 weeks after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN U.S. general population Murders of Michelle Go, Christina Lee, and Yao Pan Ma in New York, NY Shooting at Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, CA Mass shooting ignites broad recognition and surge of anti -Asian hate crimes in Atlanta, GA