Posted by Kathleen on 2/25/09

Opposing Views of a Post-Racial Society by Roland Laird
(Author of Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans)

After Barack Obama won the presidential election I found
myself in conversations with White people who were beside
themselves. In their minds the election of a Black president
meant that we had truly entered Dr. King's dream and America
had become a nation where people are not "judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Somehow on November 4th we had become a so-called
"post-racial society.” But my Black friends and I are having
none of it. We view the Obama Presidency as promising, but
believe racism is alive and well and still a major factor in
American life.

Read the rest in the February Teachers.Net Gazette

http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB09/laird/

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