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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.

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.

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

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

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.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.