I saw this linked by Kathy Shaidle. It does seem like race relations have gone south since Obama was elected. That’s probably wrong. We feel the here and now so it seems better or worse that previous times. We forget how we felt ten years ago or twenty years ago. We forget that the Left blamed this on George Bush. We also forget the riots after Rodney King and the ugliness following the OJ trial. Go back further and we have race riots dating to the 19th century. The fact is, there is money to be made telling black people that the blue eyed devil is coming for them. More important, there is money to be made telling white people looking for salvation that they can get by pointing at the other white people and calling them racists.

The sad truth is race relation will probably never get better than we see today. In fact, I suspect they get much worse in the coming decades. Humans just don’t like mixing it up and we really hate in tough times. As the mathematical realities of our situation bear down on us, the friction between ethnic groups will grow worse.