A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A few months ago I had to listen while someone smirked and told me that the election of a black president meant that racial discrimination no longer existed in this country.

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From the vita of Professor Gates:

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-1973
B.A., summa cum laude, Scholar of the House in History, 1973
Clare College, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1973-1979
M.A., English Language and Literature, 1979
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, 1979

EMPLOYMENT
Harvard University
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor (2006-present), W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities (1991-2006), Professor of English and American Literature and Language (1991-present), Chair, Department of African and African American Studies (1991-2006), Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (1991-present)

Duke University
John Spencer Bassett Professor of English and Literature, Duke University (1989-1991)
Cornell University
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Literature (1988-1990)
Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies (1985-1988)

Yale University
Associate Professor of English and Afro-American Studies (1984-1985)
Assistant Professor of English and Afro-American Studies (1979-1984)
Lecturer in English and Afro-American Studies, Director of Undergraduate
Studies (1976-1979)

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I don't know what else to say. This makes me sick.