Carolina QuotesThere haven’t been fundamental structural changes in America. There’s been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Interview with The Root, July 21, 2009.
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