This is why we don’t yet have a postracial society. Our racial attitudes are indeed improving. Surveys show we oppose interracial marriage less; whites report being more comfortable working for a black boss; more Americans would be happy living next door to a person of a different race; and there is that election of an African American president. But it is contingencies in our lives, not racial attitudes alone, that count. And just because those contingencies are increasingly social psychological doesn’t mean they’re gone.
In fact, wonder if we’ve regressed on these measures under Trump. I’d expect so. :(
