In Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai‘I by Jonathan Y. Okamura shows that Obama’s election was based on “post-racialism” and was represented as the “post-racial candidate”. Obama was elected by a majority of African American, Asian Americans, Latino votes, and a portion of white votes which shows that he was elected because he was “required to be the post-racial (as opposed to black). Also, Obama avoided anything regarding “race” because he would receive criticism from many whites. During his presidency, he would be portrayed as “the president who happens to be Black,” rather than “the Black president” because many think that he doesn’t fit in as an African American since he was elected as a president and not African Americans in stereotyped roles. Despite many discriminations against Obama, he was elected was solely based on his merits and personal achievements. I don’t think America will ever reach a “post-racial” time period because people would just find every other way to discriminate against a certain group or a successful person.
Why don’t people accept other successful people but had to look at their racial identity first?
Reference:
Jonathan Y. Okamura (2016). Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian American and Hawaii
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