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

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.

Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

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.

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

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.

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.