Has President Obama Inflamed Racial Tensions in the United States? [POLL]

Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday told reporters that actions taken by President Obama have had a negative impact on race relations in the United States. According to the Dallas Morning News, Cruz told CNN that the President's actions all the way back to the beer summit have inflamed racial tensions.

“He has not used his role as president to bring us together,” Cruz replied. “He has exacerbated racial misunderstanding, racial tensions. From back at the beer summit to a series of efforts to pit Americans against each other. And part of the problem is the way he advocates for any given plan is to build a straw man and then vilify a caricature. So that in the president’s telling, anyone who opposes Obamacare — … you malevolently want people to suffer.”

What do you think? Do you agree with Senator Cruz that Obama's policies have hurt race relations in this country?