Obama has shown monumental restraint NOT flaming/straining race relations...

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8. The right wing media is also saying that Obama listens to Al. ...

They also paint out Al's history on racial relations in a very negative light.

This is important because it makes having a fair discussion on racial relations far more difficult. Racial relations are a smoldering fire in our nation that unless dealt with quickly may become a raging inferno.

In my opinion it's not a good idea to play political games with race. It may fire up the Democratic base but that will be offset by the anger created in the Republican base. Unfortunately it does seem that both political parties are trying their best to use this issue to their advantage and to further divide our nation rather than unite it.

I'm tired of the two major political parties fighting like unsupervised children on a playground. I want my grandchildren to grow up in a better nation and that means we need to solve problems and not exacerbate them.

We need another MLK. Unfortunately such people rarely come along.