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Compared to where, exactly?Ivan Seeking said:It may or may not be significant. There is still a lot of racism in that part of the country.
Edit by Ivan: In order to avoid further derailing our thread about the 2008 Presidential candidates, I started this tread. I then posted this story and moved the appropriate posts here from the other thread
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-iweala23jan23,0,1775254.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrailI am shocked by the commentary on the prominence of race as a theme in the Democratic Party primaries. Shocked not because race is a theme but because so many in the media seem to think that race would not be or should not be mentioned. It is as if we think that not speaking about race is the equivalent of making progress on race issues.
The only thing more amusing than the use of a new term, "post-racial," to describe the positive response to Barack Obama's campaign is the lamentation at the loss of "post-raciality."
This entire narrative is a media-concocted fiction. America is decidedly not "post-racial." [continued]
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