Do you think Obama is bringing us together as a nation or causing more racial tension?

I think he is causing more racial tension. Mostly by not acknowledging that what reverend Wright said was Hate Speech and that it was RACIST. The simple acknowledgment that black people can be racists and should be held to the same standard of racial sensitivity as white people would go a long way to bridging the gap. But Obama refused to do that. He tried to justify Wrights RACISM by blaming the history of this country. We are not our ancestors and should not be judged for what they did. If racial equality is truly the goal, it has to go both ways. Racism is wrong and ought to be condemned. But it should be condemned equally regardless of the race of the racist. And that is what is creating the division. White people feel that they are being punished for racism, whether they are racist or not, and non-whites are allowed to be as racist as they want and it is accepted. The double standard is intolerable. My only wish is for all races to be treated equally.