Will racism ever really be "over" in this country? Perhaps, once intermarriage becomes so widespread that it all but wipes out the visual cues that have traditionally fed it, and we're another century or so removed from slavery and segregation. Meanwhile, we all have our work cut out.

The conservative assertion that we now occupy a "post-racial" America is ridiculous on its face. If anything, racism is more virulent now than during the Jim Crow era, when segregation was the law of the land. We are arguably now more psychically segregated than before 1964.