The day after the 2008 elections, The New York Times proclaimed that Barack Obama won the election “sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive” (Nagourney, 2008). However, as the President’s time in the White House draws to a close, a case can be made that the historic election was anything but post-racial; rather, it has been the most racially polarizing presidency in modern times. This is no surprise, however, to those familiar with Barack Obama’s background and his position on racial
