The Post-Racial Myth

It is alluring at times to embrace the idea of post-racial. We desperately desire to allow for its tenets to provide simplicity where complexity was once commonplace. The myth of a post-racial society allows for a do over. It allows for us to divorce ourselves from a troubled history and ignore its implications on present day politics. Sadly, when we embrace the myth of post-racial we allow for the legacy of white supremacy to continually plague our democratic institutions. So, in the midst of these changing times we must resist the embrace of post-racial. We must remain vigilant in our witness to the reality that the persistence of the color line still seeks to paint portraits of certain populations in America in harsh tones. Our blindness to color is nothing to be applauded because it simply allows for the normalcy of whiteness to remain unchallenged.