“We’re Not Post-Racial Yet”: The Demons Of Our Racist Past Still Haunt UsSo we’re not post-racial yet. Instead, we are preoccupied with race, chafing along the color line, possessed of wildly divergent views of authority, justice and equality. We have not yet put away the old ghosts, so they continue to haunt us. That’s a powerful testament to the ways in which the old ghosts still haunt us, even in an age of a black president and two black U.S. senators. We are not post-racial yet, and until we can confront and exorcise the demons of our past, we will never be.