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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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

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