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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.

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