I keep hearing everyone speak about a post racial reality. It is an interesting set of words. The idea being that somehow the election of a black man to the presidency of the united states erases the history of racism because we are now in a new era. Who would benefit from a post racial reality? Is race the problem? Maybe the problem is racism not race!
     Here is what I mean! I like being black! Maybe that is shocking to many people! I absolutely love the evolving culture that is blackness. I dig the idea of being a musical descendant of Miriam Makeba and Bob Marley. Two black people who chose to point us towards the richness of our collective history in Africa. So, I don't want a post racial reality.
      What I would like is a post-RACIST reality. Take a look at that Post-racial and Post-RACIST. They sound similar but those couple of  letters make a world of difference:
1) A post racial society is one where everyone pretends that race does not exist and that the history of slavery is a bother to talk about, old news, old hat and out of style like bell bottoms.

2) A post racist society is one where all the institutions set up to block equality are brought down. No more high schools named after famous politicians who owned slaves and sold their own children into slavery (Thomas Jefferson). No more senators who are former KKK members:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
No more drug laws that are racially motivated to place young black men in prison. Infact! No more prisons!
                                POST RACIST NOT POST RACIAL!