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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.