Are race relations (in US) better or worse since President Obama was elected ?

I don't think that they have changed other than being more out in the open. What bothers me the most are the people that when you make some objection to Mr 0bamb's policies or performance, the first word out of their mouth is to accuse you of being racist. There seems to be a a number of people on the left that hold the view that because he has dark skin he cant make mistakes or preform poorly.

The Tea Party was never about race. It was about RESPONSIBLE government spending. As to race relations, we have too many people out there shouting that if you disagree with the presidents policies you must be a racist. That is nothing but Liberal Democratic ploy to shut up the opposition. It's wrong! It is a lie! It's just plain pathetic. If you disagree with this presidents policies it might just be that you love your country and and you hate seeing what Mr. Obama and his cronies are doing to destroy it. I don't judge Mr. Obama's presidential effectiveness based on his skin color. I judge it on the basis of his performance, and guess what? His performance sucks. Barak Obama actually makes the Jimmy Carter presidency look good, and that's just plain sad.

Given how much worse blacks in general have done during the Obama Presidency, and the fact that they still support him, I'd have to say that we see much more racism. This whole group is voting someone just because of the color of his skin.

If he was a caucasion, asian or had brown skin, the NAACP would likely be holding near riots in front of the white house based on the same conditions.

If the guy spent as much time on race relations as he does fundraising (average one every three days since he announced his re-election last April) he might help them more, but he's probably not seeing a lot of blacks than need a job at his $17,000 per plate brunches.

Properly depends on what part of the country you live in I guess. Most of the states over here in the west don't care about race, just about living our lives without gov't interference. Listening to some people(democrats) you would would think that the race relations are worse because they sure use that race card a lot when something doesn't go the way they think it should....If they would get off that high horse they are on maybe they would see that the gov't is trying to control everything they do & it has nothing to do with Race

Obama getting elected just brought to the surface a lot of the ugliness that was not visible before. I have been really surprised by how many people I know that never expressed any racist sentiments before will do so openly now. Even more disturbing is the right wing media coverage of the president, which seems to revel in conspiracy theories about him, and trying to portray him as some kind of Manchurian candidate. The mere fact that he got elected shows we have come a long ways...the backlash against him shows there is quite a distance to go.