"America, a post-racial society," sounds good to the ear but is this statement possible? There have been mixed emotions and comments about the issue but in the opinion of many; America is far from being a post-racial society. We have come along way from slavery and Jim Crow laws, but as a nation we still have a long way to go before we can even begin to think of ourselves as "post-racial." According to Elizabeth Landau from CNN,"you may be more racist than you think." The article is on a study that was done on how people "unconsciously harbor attitudes, even though they see themselves as tolerant and egalitarian"(CNN). If this study is true America can not be post-racial because racism is still present, even though it is not seen.
Photo found in the New York Post, February 2009.
Nice blog, I liked the way you introduced the blog and connected your edvidence of people today possibly being unknowingly racists.
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