Poll: Race relations have plummeted since Obama took office
Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, according to the poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994 and was conducted in mid-July by Hart Research Associations and Public Opinion Strategies.
That’s a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama’s first term, when 79 percent of whites and 63 percent of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations.
He always takes sides and tries to incite his ‘base’. Whether being on the wrong side of the ‘beer summit’ when his friend got arrested in Boston or the ‘my son would look like Trayvon’ remark. Rather than wait for facts and try to make things in the world better, he drives a wedge into race relations that have been improved over the years by others.