Commentary: 'Post-racial' America isn't here yet

[ulysses]

Once you've turned off the television and encouraged black children toward academic excellence, you still must contend with the fact that their schools are too often crumbling, underfunded and staffed with inexperienced teachers.

Once you've gotten black women and men to raise their children in the context of families, you still have to deal with the fact that those families need places to live, jobs to support them and doctors to keep them healthy, all of it elusive as long as structural discrimination persists in all those areas. And, once you have convinced black children to stop defining themselves by denigrating stereotypes, you still have to fix a racially biased justice system that treats them as crimes waiting to happen.

More - http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/28/pitts.black.america/index.html

[EFerrari]

1. We can't even talk about racism without becoming reactive and hysterical.

We can't possibly be "passed" it in any meaningful way.

[ulysses]

2. true enough.