A Post Racial America my ass.
What have we seen in the last few years?
Every imaginary construct designed to promote the idea that the US is somehow post racial has crashed and burned.
Racism on a personal and institutional level. has not been so evident since the 1960's.
We watched the Republican Party condone the Birther movement.
We watched the Democratic Party desperately try and abandon its own President in the face of the race based onslaught.
We have seen stand your ground laws ineptly applied based purely on the race.
Young African American males have born the brunt of this rapid change. Shot, imprisoned and killed beyond all proportion. Move and you die.
Many have sat idly by as voting rights are stripped from the intended targets.
We have seen gerrymandering to such a degree that democracy itself has been trashed.
We have seen increasing segregation in schools, its as if we have accepted the separate and equal....scratch that...separate and not equal reality.
I'm appalled, truly I am.
The racism is so evident as to be surreal, I almost don't want to accept that it is so god awful.
I'm so damn sorry, I didn't realize it was so bad.
We have not progressed on bloody iota, indeed we are going back to darker times.