Obama could set back race relations decades

He already has. He has exposed a one-way-street mentality that says it’s okay for Blacks to be racist, small minded and bigoted while expecting not only open-mindedness, but outright favoritism from Whites. Of course, that attitude has been around for a long time, but Obama’s campaign has exposed it as wide-spread, not limited to a few malcontents but pervasive in our society.

On the other hand, this may be what’s necessary to move race relations forward again, forcing us out of the local maxima of affirmative action that we’d been stuck in for a generation. So while Obama himself is most definitely not a post-racial candidate, he may be the catalyst that takes us to a post-racial world. Or not. We’ll see.