Welcome To Post-Racial America

November, 2008

BEFORE WE GET TOO SELF-CONGRATULATORY, PERHAPS WE SHOULD ASK: IS AMERICA AS GOOD AS ITS PROMISE?Hindsight is 20/20. but the 2008 race for the While House has revealed that America's vision of racial progress is still quite blurry. Krom the moment Barack Obama officially announced his candidacy at the Old State Capitol building in Spring­field, Illinois—where Abra­ham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech, in 1858—America reluctantly began a new chapter on race and politics.The p...