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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.

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

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.

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

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.

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.