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I have come to fully believe that we now live in a postracial America and, as a result, a postracial world. It is not that racism is over, or that racist policies or politics are thing of the past (they are very present indeed), but that postraciality is "tendentially the hegemonic form" (to use Micheal Hardt's language) that will in the future impose its form and mode on all areas of life. Being the leading ideal does not mean everyone lives in a postracial reality but that all of reality is being molded by or developing according to that social ideal. In the 19th century, for example, the leading economic ideal was industrial production. But if you went back to that time and looked around, you would find that most people were not working in factories. What made the age industrial was not the prominence of factor buildings and work but that the factory logic was being imposed on all areas of life: work, school, military, prison system, and even agriculture. And so when we speak of a postracial society, we are saying that its logic is leading and shaping the society's future.

America today is the most racially advanced society the world has ever known. I even think it surpasses 12th century Spain.