By Naomi Schaefer Riley, Dec. 29, 2014, Nypost.com

Will we look back on the early 2000s as the pinnacle of racial harmony in this country?

It seems an odd question, but a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that only 40 percent of Americans think race relations in this country are good, the lowest level since 1995.

Charles Blow, for one, isn’t worried. The New York Times columnist looks at the figure “optimistically.” He writes, “I see the result of vociferous truth-telling and justice-calling, in the face of which fairy-tale obliviousness is reduced to ashes.”

In other words, we’ve spent so much time in the past year ripping the bandages off that we can finally expose our racial wounds and let them begin to air out and heal.

What a load of malarkey.

As depressing as that poll is, it’s only about Americans’ perceptions. The reality is far different.

The miniscule number of blacks shot by white police officers has only declined further in recent decades. Meanwhile, our educational institutions are almost single-mindedly devoted to producing racial diversity. The KKK is not on the march.

To understand the real state of race relations in this country, consider this: In 1960, multiracial marriages were only 0.4 percent of all marriages. By 2010, that figure had jumped to 8.4 and was at 15 percent for recent newlyweds.