Prior to November 4th, when I was just imagining an Obama win, one of my biggest concerns was that people of all stripes would roundly declare that an Obama win proves that racism is dead. Oh, how I dreaded the conversations that would follow! I envisioned myself having to explain, teach, drone on step by step, what a wrongheaded assertion that was and having to enlighten folks on how a single beautiful act where change triumphed, could not and would not erase the blight of racism on the American landscape.
Perhaps …