Analysis: Post-racial Era Yet to Dawn in America: WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks about Barack Obama, only the latest such eruption since America's first Black president took office a year ago, probably say more about the state of race relations in the United States than they do about Obama.
The political uproar, not unexpected in today's fiercely partisan climate, flared immediately. But less examined is what Reid's words say about the latent and overt racism that envelops Obama and the country. The nation is far from the post-racial era some thought had dawned with the 2008 election.
Reid, D-Nev., has not disputed a new book that quotes him as saying during the campaign that he thought Obama was a good candidate because he was a 'light-skinned' African-American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'
