'This so-called post-racialism is a figment of our imagination.' [View all]

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'“This so-called post-racialism is a figment of our imagination. Race, unfortunately, is still the barometer by which everyone is measured.

Bernadette Pruitt, an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tex., who has written about Southern racial history and can’t stop thinking of Trayvon Martin and his family. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trayvon-martins-killing-galvanizes-florida-community-civil-rights-groups/2012/03/21/gIQAbQslSS_story.html

If I could make that bolded part 100X bigger, I would. Because THIS is the reality of the situation and has been ever since this country came into existence.

But the allure of "post racialism" was not a figment of OUR imagination. I have yet to meet a single black person that thought for even one second that Obama's presidency automatically ushered in an era of "post racialism." 400 years of history, brutality and oppression are not easily overcome.