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Post Racial America

'Postracial' America, One Year Later

Jamie Holmes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Holmes

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 11.23.2009 | Politics

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

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 09.04.2009 | Politics

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Caryl Rivers

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 08.27.2009 | New York

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Elon James White

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

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The Conversation We Need to Have

Karen Finney | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Karen Finney

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

Brandon M. Terry | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Brandon M. Terry

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

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Sophia A. Nelson

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

Elon James White | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

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

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The Post's Post-Racial Politics

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media

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Bakari Kitwana

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 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Earnest Harris

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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