Post Racial America

Post-Whiteness

Darnell L. Moore | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Obama Post-Racial, Whiteness, Race, Blackness, Post-Racial, Post Racial America, President Barack Obama, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News

Whose bodies and lives will this grand social vision of a post-racial world benefit especially when considering the counter-investment in notions of "blackness" that post-racial propagandists seem to maintain?

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Complicating the Racist Hunger Games Tweets

Lori Ungemah | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Racial Stereotypes, Post Racial America, Racial Discrimination, The Hunger Games, Teaching Literacy, Hunger Games Thresh, Hunger Games Rue, Hunger Games Racial Tweets, Hunger Games Race, Hunger Games Tweets, Education News

Articles are examining what the tweeters said and the potential whys behind their actions, but nobody is branching out to ask, "What next?"

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Sisterly Love: The Rise of the Black Girl Crush

Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Black Women, Black Unemployment, Working Women, Les Tulieries, Girl Crush, Post Racial America, Black Female Journalists, Women Writers, Solange Knowles Style, Black Girl Crush, Style-Journalism, Michelle Obama, Writers' Strike, Hair & Beauty, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News

While Black female creative professionals try to gain footing in the wake of such staggering facts, it is no wonder then that the rise of the Black girl crush has emerged. In fact, it has crested in my own life, as I have been working freelance since May 2011.

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Three Thoughts On Becoming Post-racial

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Day, Race, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Politics News

On this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just offer three very random thoughts on the "post-racial" question.

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I'm Black Enough

Melanie Coffee | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: African Americans, Race, Racial Discrimination, Post Racial America, Black Voices News

I hate the notion that some of us black folks come with an asterisk. I'm black, but (asterisk) I love Guns N' Roses. I'm black, but (asterisk) I can watch Professional Bull Riding for hours. I'm black but (asterisk) I'm still looking for someone to teach me how to Dougie.

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The American Dream, In Black and White

Steve Nelson | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Education, Black Voices, Poverty, White Privilege, Chicago, Racism, Race, Post Racial America, Politics News

Obscured by incessant chatter about the credit rating and national debt is the sad reality of poverty and hunger in America. At the root of these issues is the ugly legacy of racism and the failure to recognize white privilege.

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My On-Again-Off-Again Relationship With White People

Melanie Coffee | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Obama Racism, Black Voices, Tea Party Racism, BV Life, Naacp Tea Party Racism, Modern Racism, Post Racism, U.S. Racism, Post Racial America, Black Voices News

It's exhausting to feel like the spokeswoman for your race. Sometimes I have the energy to do it, other times I don't want to be bothered. Many times I think: Why? Why do I have to answer this?

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Racism Is Hardly a Thing of the Past

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Alexander, War-on-Drugs, Racism, Post Racial America, Incarceration Rates, African Americans, Marijuana, Books News

Is Jim Crow back? Are African Americans, particularly African American men, once more suffering systematic discrimination on the basis of race -- a discrimination that locks them out of equal rights and basic citizenship?

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Is America Post-Racial? Or Just Forgetful?

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Immigration, John Hithon, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Jeffrey Lord, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Glenn Beck, Politics News

It seems that the rush to declare the Obama presidency the harbinger of a "post-racial America" has coincided with a concurrent rush to forget what was once widely known about racism.

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So What Ever Happened to That Post-Racial America?

Earnest Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Glenn Beck, Earnest Harris, Rush Limbaugh, Post Racial America, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News

In many ways it appears President Obama's victory and presence in the White House has actually caused a lot of people to get worse about their issues regarding so-called "race."

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The Trouble With Shirley: Race, Power and the Cow in the Room

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rural America, Farmers, Shirley Sherrod, Usda, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Teaparty, Arizona Immigration Law, Race, Post Racial America, Barack Obama, Election, Politics News

In our efforts to move past race, we have run right smack into it. There is no doubt about it. Rather than moving us toward a post-racial society, it has made us hyper vigilant of how race and power intersect in American society.

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Post-Racial America: Gizmodo.com

Elon James White | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Post Racial America, Post-Racial America, Post Race, Post-Racial, The Giving Life, Post Racial, Healthy Living News

In a country that's supposedly so past race, it's quite amusing to watch folks completely trip over it.

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'Postracial' America, One Year Later

Jamie Holmes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Post-Racial, Post-Racial Politics, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Barack Obama, One Year Later, Politics News

The real conversation on race, like it or not, is still pending. Barack Obama's win was a profound public testimony to American decency. But in numerous areas, blacks remain severely disadvantaged.

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The Carter Statement

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Andrew Manis, Health Care Reform, Racism, Right Wing, Media, Post Racial America, Politics News

There is no comfortable time to discuss America's racial issues. There is no right time. There will always be something else more pressing. America needs to look its racism in the mirror.

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The Last Real American White Man Is a Woman

Caryl Rivers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Resignation, Race in America, Sarah Palin, American Identity, Race, Post-Racial, Post Racial America, Politics News

Sarah is a tintype of what we used to be -- or who we believed we were: rugged individuals who charged across the continent, ripping up trees and taming the prairies.

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Echoes of Gates' Arrest in Brooklyn?

Elon James White | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elon James White, Henry Louis Gates, Post Racial America, Shem Walker, New York News

After yelling "freeze" Walker was then shot and killed.

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The Conversation We Need to Have

Karen Finney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust Museum Shooting, Race, Henry Louis Gates, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Politics News

The incident in Cambridge comes on the heels of a number of incidents over the past several months that reminded us of the unfinished business race and prejudice in our country.

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Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Welcome to the New "Post-Racial" America

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Harvard University, Post Racial America, Boston, Arrest, Police, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis Gates Arrest, China, Black in America 2, Politics News

Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.

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A Stranger in Mine Own House: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Police in "Post-Racial" America

Brandon M. Terry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Politics News

Gates was charged with "disorderly conduct." Blacks easily recognize this offense as the failure of a black to show proper deference to a white police officer.

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This Week in Blackness: "2009 is the New 1952"

Elon James White | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, Elon James White, Lindsey Graham, This Week in Blackness, Post Racial America, The Truth, Comedy News

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The Post's Post-Racial Politics

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ny Post Cartoon, Obama Chimp Cartoon, Post Racial America, New York Post Cartoon, New York Post, Post Cartoon, Media News

This cartoon's arrival on newsstands is way out of step with the times. Regardless of its intention, it reinforces the notion that national conversations on race are long over due.

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We Are Not Post Racial Just Yet

Earnest Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Martin Luther King, Post Racial America, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News

Now that President-Elect Obama has become President Obama we can finally turn our attention to the real work of getting this country back on track and into that famously promised "post racial America."

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