Dr. Taylor- What We Wanted Recovering From The Obama Era

I attended the lecture by Dr. Taylor called "What We Wanted Recovering From The Obama Era". Dr. Taylor spoke very well and quite gracefully about the idea of post-racialism. He told us that the phrase, "What we wanted", came from a man named Stokely Carmichael. He began by describing the social view of what it meant now that we have a black president. Many people saw Obama as "the rock on which history broke itself". Many people wished to believe that this was the turning point into post-racialism which Dr. Taylor quickly said was a false reality. He began by describing the racial inequality and racial gaps that were still very present today. He went through 4 different moves that were used to describe how to reach this post-racial stage but were ultimately failures. The thing was that Obama was a man of the people, but would say one thing and do another. To the people he would say that racism is still alive and completely disavow the Color-Blind Project but politically he would advocate the Color-Blind Project. He ultimately brings it back to Stokely Carmichaels phrase, "What we wanted", by saying that back then we should've wanted more for than what we were aiming for. The lecture introduced me to a new topic and allowed to get input from some great philosophical audience members when they asked questions.