Petula Dvorak - In the District, we're still struggling to overcome the racial divide: Can we stop playing make-believe on this whole race thing?
We tried to declare our country's racial division over with and overcome once President Obama came into office.
Too many Americans believed that after the inauguration, we would have a post-racial America -- a world in which white folks enjoy hip-hop, a black family lives in the White House, prosperity and equality is there for all and we just don't have to talk about this stuff anymore.
Sorry, but that's so not the case.
America is still deeply divided along race. Nowhere is that more apparent than in our nation's capital. Both of our top dogs -- the president and the mayor -- are biracial, fit, educated Gen Xers who are not children of privilege and who work hard to keep their rhetoric colorblind. Yet, here we are, a city and, increasingly, a nation fractured.
One look at the two rallies on the Mall last weekend tells you that. A sea of white faces looking up adoringly at Glenn Beck while Al Sharpton marched with a crowd that was predominantly black.
