A new CBS poll shows that for the first time, most black people are viewing race relations in a positive light. According to the poll, 59 percent of african-americans now percieve the relationship between black and white people as “good.” This is in stark comparison to just a year ago, when only 29 percent of african-americans felt the same way.
Most interestingly, the majority of blacks and whites taking the survey felt that Obama’s election didn’t have a direct effect on improving race relations. Fifty-nine percent of blacks and sixty-nine percent of whites said that race relations were the same after President Obama took office…
