Race relations in the US

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I recently heard on CSPAN that hope for better race relations is way up among all groups in the US since Obama was elected; however, they specifically pointed out different reasons why african americans and whites had better hope for the future. White people had better hope for the future because they most often thought that having a black president means that lingering racism does not exist (or is not really a problem) while african americans felt that Obama would address the issue of lingering racism. So one side says he will do something about a problem but the other thinks it does not exist. I don't know about anyone else but this does not give me a lot of hope for the future. Seems to me that we are still on totally different wave lengths and with that disconnect I am not sure where anything but mediocre change will come from.