The Idea of becoming “Post-Racial” is not only tragic, it is impossible. We are what we are, and the idea that one can transcend their very essence is pure myth. Like Ta-Nehisi intimated, in the end the “Post-Racial” and “Transcending Race” concepts just become subtle control mechanisms. The notion that one needs to move away from their identity, and that the move is a positive action,suggests that the identity being shed is of little value. Therefore,one that attempts to be “post-racial” actually submits to the idea that their race is inferior, and instead of “transcending” race,they just attempt to conceal it in order to appease those who are in control. Of course this is done in the hope of gaining mainstream acceptance.

Like “Ta-Nehisi” also intimated it is peculiar that black people are the only ones who feel compelled to do this.

Shelby Steele painted Barack as a victim of this syndrome in his book “A Bound Man” and gave it as one of the reasons that Barack cannot win the presidency. I disagree with this assertion.