Who Aborted the Post-Racial America?

Now that the Beer Summit is over, let us look at what really happened when Prof. Henry Gates Jr. came in contact with Cambridge police officer, Sergeant James Crowley. In one sentence – post-racial America was aborted.

It used to be that when you get your ass whooped by police, you call Al SharptonAl Sharpton. Now, you just make a call to the White House.

And they said Obama was not black enough.

Things have changed drastically in America. The post-racial America that many heralded with the election of Barack ObamaBarack Obama jumped off the window as soon as the trumpet stopped.

Obama was supposed to be the man who brought about the end of racism, affirmative action, welfare, and every other incentive that kept the minority alive in our once racially oppressive America. Even those who did not vote for him were using his election as a proof that America had paid its debt to society.

Then, Prof. Henry Louis Gates encountered Sergeant Crowley. And on the day CNN was premiering Black in America 2, Obama weighed in with his stupid remark.

I want to believe it was all planned. Like the way Obama was born in Kenya but someone who knew he would become the 44th President of the United States of America went and announced his birth in a Hawaiian newspaper.

When I first came to America, I went to live in Virginia. I was encouraged to stay in Virginia because it was the first state that elected a black man governor. Gov. Doug Wilder was no longer the governor when I got there. After a few days in Virginia, the question in my mind was, “if the relationship between whites and blacks is like this, how was it before Wilder became the governor?”

Those who dream of a post-racial America will have to wait for a long time. There are still more people in America who prefer the easiest way to measure people – by the color of their skins. These people are still too lazy and too scared to wait and look deeper.

There are beautiful Americans but they are not yet in the majority. Many more beautiful Americans will be born when more of the ugly Americans finally die off.

Until then, the post-racial America remains a premature birth.