Eugene Robinson: The Eric Garner case’s sickening outcome

[KitSileya]

7. "those who espoused the “post-racial” myth were either naïve or disingenuous."

Eugene Robinson needs to be careful, but I will say it directly - those who claim we live in a "post-racial" world are racists, pure and simple. If you deny there is a problem, you are part of the problem, and those who deny that there is racism, or claim it is just some individuals who haven't evolved, instead of a feature of our society, are racists. They refuse to see the reality of the lives of black Americans, and refuse to believe what these black Americans say about their own experiences, and that makes them racists. They are propping up a system of institutional racism, and when they do that, it doesn't matter what their personal opinions of black people are, or how many black friends they have, they are racists.