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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.

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.

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

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.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.

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.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.

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