Post-Racial My ***!!

One unarmed black teen is shot dead by a neighborhood vigilante. Two white teens make fun of their black peers and post it on YouTube. One black student is told to read a Langston Hughes poem "blacker." These are just a few of the things that have happened in the past few weeks and yet we're in a post-racial society. What the hell is post-racial? Let's deconstruct.

Post is a prefix meaning "behind, after or later," according to Dictionary.com. Racial means "pertaining to, or characteristic of, one race or the races of humankind." We can deduce that post-racial means "after things pertaining to race" or that "race is in the past." Really? Watch the video below and tell me that race is something of the past.

After the death of Whitney Houston, a high school coach from the Chicago suburbs called her the N-word on his Facebook wall, according to Chicago Sun-Times. In the article, he's quoted saying he didn't even realize what he wrote. So, is he saying that he's innately racist? Well, he stated that he's not racist and now he can't get a job anywhere. Too bad.

In the highly publicized Trayvon Martin tragedy, this is apparently one of a string of racially charged incidents between the black community and the police, according to Huffington Post. So, this is not the only and probably won't be the last.

All of these racial incidents make this post-racial society seem very, well, racist. Pretty much, it looks like nothing has changed since a black president has been elected. And many of us know that a good portion of the white people that voted for Obama voted for him for one reason alone; they didn't want to be called the white man's n-word - a racist. So, no, we have not entered a post-racial society. Instead, we're still in a very racist society.