Post - racial.

Since my birth in the mid-80's I have been force fed the same line: "It shouldn't matter what color we are. We are all people." As much as I would have liked to swallow that pill, my life has proved just the opposite. While yes, science has proved that race has no genetic standing or basis, we are still a society that views race as a platform for many things. We encode, latently embrace, reject and sop up racial stereotypes and act accordingly to them. Even the most un-biased person does this..if even just a little. However, Obama's election last July unearthed this issue of "post-racialness". While [African-Americans] praise the fact that he is the first Black president, others still recant, "Well, he is still part white." What does that mean? It means that, while America may preach "color-blindness",it is something we have yet to embrace. We are not yet comfortable with race yet, let alone with post-racial, or bi/multiracialism. With the population of Multi-Racial Americans doubling every year according to Diversity Inc., this leaves us in the middle - a minority of minorities. We grasp on to two worlds, accepted, and yet never fully embraced by either ethnicities. We get tossed back and forth, in and out of categories as society sees fit. A light skin mixed baby? We will call you mixed; too dark? sorry, you're black.

As much as I would like to belive in a world devoid of racism, stereotypes and categories, I cannot be so naive as to believe it will happen. And as long as those societal problems stand, the issue of being "post-racial" cannot be fully understood or embraced.