Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama

If Blacks choose to believe what they say about them, then yes it will work. They just need to go to the polls in November and prove how intelligent they really are. But if they sit home, complain, and don't go out to vote, then they will prove them right.

Divisions! Divisions! And more divisions! It seems that this country never will get over it's racial divisions, even though we are in the 21st century. Why must all these polls break along racial lines. I think it is an insult for the media to even report polls centering on whites versus black. They don't do it for other ethnicities to the degree they do it against blacks. I know that the majority of Americans don't want to see this and they are happy to finally see a black man be nominated by a major political party. To those of you who keep looking back and wishing for the days of your forefathers, remember, times are changing and you might find yourselves at the mercy of another nation that will treat you as a minority of little consequence and then see how you will like it.

I could not agree more that even though we've come to the 21st Century, there are segments of our society (and unfortunately the news media are a powerful segment), that want to continue to divide us--sometimes they are blatant about it and sometimes more insidious. As long as we continue as a nation to think of ourselves as "us" and "them," we will not progress. If everyone polled and asked such a "loaded" question simply said "I will not answer any question with a purpose of continuing to divide this country," perhaps it would stop.

We cannot see into other people's minds, and we cannot legislate what people think, but we can actively push back against any attempt to continue to divide us. We are all Americans and that's good enough for me.