Events
February 8, 2010
King Week keynote gives definitions
What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of the post-racial attitude in today’s society? That was the question Kimberle` Crenshaw used to preface her King Week keynote address.
Crenshaw, a Columbia and UCLA law professor, defined post-racialism as a means to ignore racial injustice. Post-racialism is a way “to silence those of us who do think about race.”
She treated the audience to a simulated conversation between King and “Barry King,” the invented offspring of CNN’s Larry King. Is America really post-racial? The great civil rights leader’s imagined response: “I’m having difficulty understanding how far we’ve come. And the language of gradualism is mistaken for the language of arrival.”
