post-racial

or post·ra·cial

[ pohst-rey-shuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present:
post-racial politics;
the post-racial era.

First recorded in 1970–75; post- + racial

The Hannity-esque delusion of a post-racial America is ill-informed at best and bigoted at worst.

To call the United States “post-racial” is to court a Christopher Columbus moment of discovering America.

And what about those post-racial and post-gender millennials?

The era of ‘hope and change’ was supposed to usher in a ‘post-racial’ era.

It was Barack Obama who challenged Americans “to bend the arc of history” and presented himself as a post-racial candidate.

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