America’s race regression

Once you get past the fact of Obama’s election, there hasn’t really been much racial progress in the US, writes Michael Tomasky

IT SEEMS… I can’t quite call it a good moment, since what just happened down in Sanford, Florida, is decidedly un-good, but an opportune one to think about race in Barack Obama’s America.

I never went in for that “post-racial America” foolishness!, and in fact I believed from the start that there would be remarkable examples of both progress and powerful backlash against that progress.