Post Racial

During this campaign this term keeps rearing its ugly head. Barack Obama is supposedly a transformative figure in an America that believes that if you are black you should be grateful if a white smiles at you or is nice to you. Blacks should be grateful for an opportunity that is a right for a white. A black person should understand white confusion at his less than enthusiastic response to yet another white candidate. And simultaneously understand why they can’t quite figure out why blacks are not racist because they are excited about a candidate.

America seems to think that it is all behind us because it says so. One wise person quipped that blacks will let go of racism when racism lets go of them. That anonymous person understands that because Barack Obama is a candidate and because blacks, not just Michelle, are finally proud of their country, this doesn’t translate into a kumbya moment. And it is “Come By Here” for the record.

By the same token, the rationale in some quarters gleefully point to his non- slave heritage and white ancestry as the reason. He identifies black no matter how hard everyone tries to make him biracial, another questionable term. Waiting for the MSM to come up with new terms such as post quadroon, and post octoroon, etc. Maybe it somehow soothes the ruffled feathers of those who otherwise had lulled themselves into a false sense of security about their privilege.

Post racial being the misnomer that it is , is an insult to any thinking American.

It says in effect, get over it, we didn’t do it, although we reap the benefits still, daily, and you don’t.

You have nothing to complain about, see how much better things are now?

After all , look at the black representation on television and the colleges.

Why aren’t they satisfied? etc.

This ignores the very real institutionalized racism that is apparent and inherent from the public schools, job discrimination to the Katrina murders. It embraces the false claim of reverse discrimination and dismisses the disproportionate incarceration rate of black males to the overall population. It in effect says only some blacks who are uninformed still feel that way, the rest of us, the new black and white America have forgotten that old stuff.

Great subliminal attempt.

Post racial means the problem has been solved except in the minds of a few angry black folk who just simply can not move on and let go of the past. The MSM tries daily to force feed this idea, subtly. It would be laughable except it is readily palatable to those who have the choice of not dealing with the reality that racism still exists and a presumed post racial candidate or era is not on the horizon anytime soon .

It will not fix that which is broken and has been for hundreds of years. It exists in the minds of those who subconsciously need it to be over, because to deal with it, the fear becomes their dreams may be at the expense of blacks dreams. This is the perfect vehicle. Repeated enough hopefully it will come true. Sounds familiar.

It would be more useful to address the real concerns of blacks in America than smoothing over the iniquities and inequalities that exist, with new weak terminology. One man , a symbolic gesture and voila! All is well now.

It is amazing what the white masses are able to fool themselves with. Make no mistake, blacks are not fooled. They realize this is one more talking point to appease them, not solve the true disparity that still exists.

Solutions can only come with an honest dialogue and action, which most are anathema to even try or acknowledge.

Wonder where pre racial was? That part of American History must have been forgotten. Oh, Yes, it was before slavery.

Race was created to justify slavery.

So now Post Racial is born to bury the black diaspora even further and make sure it is one more nail in the coffin of genuine black culture as a source of pride.

A kind of watered down attempt at assimilation.

Again.