The always-amazing Colson Whitehead has a great editorial over at the New York Times, celebrating one year of a postracial society. He argues:

I have observed that journalists employ Google searches to lend credence to trend articles, so I compared recent hits on the word “postracial” with those of a previous year. There have been more than 500,000 online mentions of postraciality this year, as opposed to absolutely zero in 1982. Some say that’s because the Internet didn’t really exist back then. I prefer to think it’s because we’ve come a long way as a country.

And since we have "eradicated racism forever," Whitehead offers to become President Obama's secretary of postracial affairs. Part of his platform? "Some changes will be minor. In television, Diff’rent Strokes and What’s Happening!! will now be known as Different Strokes and What Is Happening?”

Very few authors can say so much, so meaningfully, with acidic sarcasm.