Quotes & Sayings About Post Racial America

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

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. — Timothy Noah

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. — Tavis Smiley

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. — Henry Louis Gates

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America. — Tracy Morgan

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. — Henry Louis Gates

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. — Wesley Morris

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

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. — Roxane Gay

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America. — Ezra Koenig

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie. — Justin Simien