In order to understand today we must understand the past. This especially true when one examines slavery. Throughout America's history race relations between white and black has, for the better, changed as time progressed. Where American society is today regarding race relations is light years ahead of where it once was, but while we have progressed quite far, we still have further to go. From what I have experienced in my life I see good race relations, but I am fully aware that the race relations that I experience to in my life are not the representation of race relations in the U.S. I understand that racism is still an issue in this country even though I may not see it. A perfect example of this would be the case of George Zimmerman and Travon Martin. Allegedly an individual made certain racist decisions based on the color of a young kids skin. This shows how racism still prevails in the country we live in today. What I think the most important issue about race-relations inst necessarily race but rather hatred. As we covered all this information about how people are like in 1930s and 1960s what really stands out to me is the immense hatred. I see all this hatred that I cant even fathom why it is so ingrained in so many people. Yes this hatred is directed to a particular skin color but I don't think that's what matters. What matters is that such hatred exists and as long as such hatred exists I cannot say we as humanity have achieved our full potential. I look at current day groups like the Westboro Baptist Church and all I see is a hate group using religion as a guise to support hate. It matters not where this hatred is directed at, whether it be at black, Latinos  Asians  whites or any other group of human beings. What matters is that as long as such hatred exists then we as a people have not reached our true potential. I understand that the question was regarding my opinions on race-relations but race is simply a difference between people and in turn can be applied to any difference between anyone. What I am saying is that I don't view race-relations as simply black and white, race relations is about how we treat people who are different. In conclusion while we as a people have progressed in race-relations over the years, we are not as accomplished as we may think we are and that we as a people still have much farther to go in making negative race relations a thing of the past.