By Alan Bean

Glancing at the paper this morning over breakfast, I noticed the headline, “Race relations arguably worse in ‘Age of Obama'”.

That banal conclusion is based on a recent poll suggesting that 43% of Americans believe that having an African-American president has not helped race relations, while only 34% believe it has helped.

This assumes that race relations–white folks and people of color getting along–is what we’re shooting for.  It isn’t. (more…)