10/21/10
Many Americans believed the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president heralded the zenith of the civil rights movement and ushered in a color-blind society. Two years later that assumption is being questioned.
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John Payton
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“We need to get past the euphoria of November 2008 and see the problems we still have,” said John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. “It’s a myth that we’re in a post-racial society. Now is absolutely not a time to be complacent.”