week 9 Zhikun Chen A02

This week's article "Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate fora post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai'i" by Jonathan Y. Okamura tells the fact that although Obama won the presidential election as the first African American ever, the racial problem still exists. Logically, one right sample cannot prove all the rest of the samples right but one wrong sample can prove the whole population wrong. So, even though Obama won the presidential election, it was only one case that African Americans or the rest of the minorities in the US got treated equally. There is no way of saying that just because Obama won, the racial problem went away. Also, there is a kind of people that are trying to use Obama as an example to suppress minorities to stop their fights for their rights. I'm not saying that Obama's win is a bad thing; it certainly is very positive for American society to step up. But, it is just a first step in a certain way for minorities to step into politics. So, whatever post-racialism is saying, a win is a win.

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/tattoomaze/obama-cartoon-tattoo/
Thots: I don't think Obama's rightful win can prove anything about Americans not being racist. Maybe the only thing this fact can prove is that racism is going away but not completely gone.