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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.