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“Has it reached a moment in society where you can say it’s post-racial? Are women finally treated equally? I can’t say that that’s the case. Sometimes it looks like progress, but you open a front door and you find out the back door got shut behind you and you didn’t even notice it.”

During Obama's second term, I served as the marketing and communications director at a racial justice organization working to humanize undocumented immigrants, draw attention to the indiscriminate killing of Black men and boys, and ultimately, to underscore the fact that despite electing our first Black president, we were not, in fact, a post-racial society.

One of the defining features of the Trumpocene and ascendant fascism is how so many people did not believe that such events in their full and now obvious horror would ever be possible in post-World War II and “post-racial” America, the “strongest” and “most vibrant ‘democracy’ in the world.”

The presidency of Barack Obama was producing a “post-racial” society.

At the time, Stephanopoulos had said with certainty, "There is no question this is the beginning — this is the first election of the future. I think we are moving towards a post-racial America."