Henry Louis Gates Quote

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


Interview with The Root, July 21, 2009.


There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. ...

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. ...

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. ...

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. ...