Americans believe race relations between blacks and whites are at their lowest point in more than two decades, according to a survey by the polling organization Gallup. For the second consecutive year, U.S. adults’ positive ratings of relations between black and white Americans are at their worst in years of measurement. At present, 42 percent of Americans say relations between the two groups are “very” or “somewhat” good, while 57 percent say they are “somewhat” or “very” bad. At the same time, only a third of black Americans currently view race relations in a positive light and hopes “for a solution to racial discord that existed last year have since dissipated,” Gallup reports. Gallup stated that this rating of black-white relations in the U.S. may not be statistically different from last year’s 44 percent, but the rating has slipped 9 percentage points over the past two years. In that period …