Post-racial Quotes

The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really challenge the racial hierarchy, we're going to have to allow some fluidity.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

In this post-post-racial, post-Obama era of resurgent populism and Balkanized identity politics, it really does feel as though it matters - and matters more than anything else - whether you're black or white.

I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were in a post-saber tooth society, that's when they were post-saber tooth.

Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.