on campus we have a great culture at n.c. state and we always need to take steps to go further. a critical challenge is to overcoming the issue of race in america is we have to acknowledge it s a problem. we have to come to a table with all groups, recognize implicit biases, all sides have to be involved in the situation. the first step is we all have to admit this is a real problem. i think that s one of the many reasons that the video in oklahoma took people by surprise that are older, because older people think of you all as post-racial. there was an article by a a researcher and he talks about specific data points. he said millennials are more racist than they think. what do you think of that? nobody wants to read that headline. i remember reading it. being upset. but this idea of post racialism in our generation is good news and bad news. it s good news because it s possible to think that. if the oakklahoma bus incident
a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn t true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually racial election. seth stevens davidowitz a researcher at harvard tested this in a very interesting way. first he ranked areas of the country based on how often they entered racist search terms into google. then compared obama s share of the vote in those areas with john kerry s share of the vote from the 04 election. just an election cycle ago. the result? he found that obama had lost 3% to 5% of the popular vote compared to what you would have expected from kerry s results. or, as he put it, obama s race, quote, gave his opponent the equivalent of a home-state advantage countrywide. the racialization of politics continued after the election