Reply #155: For Massachusetts City, Black Leaders Are "Business As Usual"---NPR

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122609614

Noted in the article, we are far from post-racial. The governor noted, quite aptly, that there won't be a photo op for all 3 any time soon.

This entry is to note that the teaching of the history of minority groups in America, black people in particular, is sorely lacking. When the interviewer talks to the high school students, the awkwardness of the white students in talking about race and the stereotypes of black people are still present. The present one is that is that black college applicants have a better shot of getting into the college of their choice than white college applicants. Not only is that ancedotal, and clearly untrue when the numbers are crunched. To note, the major flagship state universities undergrad classes are at least 90% white, black undergrads average 4-7% of the total. It goes back to the premise that "whites think that blacks have no problems", esp. that there is now a black president.