Professor Paul Butler on The Takeaway:
America: Still Not "Post-Racial"
July 22, 2009
WNYC Public Radio, New York City, NY
On July 20th, Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's pre-eminent African American scholars, was arrested for breaking into his own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The charges have been dropped against the Harvard professor but the racial questions are still swirling.
With the election of the first black man to the White House, many people thought American society was becoming "post racial." Professor Paul Butler joined Farai Chideya and Lynn Sherr to discuss race in America along with David Wall Rice, a psychology professor at Morehouse College and author of Balance: Advancing Identity Theory by Engaging the Black Male Adolescent.
An MP3 of his appearance is available for download or streaming below.
