In a recent Rolling Stone interview, President Obama confided that, of all the Hope and Change his supporters assumed he was bringing to America, the hope of a change in our racial divide wasnt on his list: I never bought into the notion that by electing me, somehow we were entering into a post-racial period. That may come as a surprise to the millions around the world who did indeed see his historic election as the promise of a post-racial era. Instead, as Ward Connerly points out, thanks to Obama we are not living in a post-racial society. We are living in a most-racial society.
Political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent Ward Connerly is the founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, a Sacramento-based organization created to educate the public about racial and gender preferences and to help implement laws to abolish them. An outspoken opponent of affirmative action, which he calls yesterdays solution to yesterdays problem, and an advocate of equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race, sex, or ethnic background, Connerly is the author of Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences and Lessons from My Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character.
In a column in the Wall Street Journal several months ago titled What Happened to Post-Racial America? Connerly took Obama to task for a record in office that falls far short of his post-racial promise
Obama: The Most-Racial President | FrontPage Magazine
