Racism is over in The United States! Woo-hoo, go tell it on the mountains, over the hills and everywhere. We have a Black president (cue the fireworks and bald eagles soaring over snow covered mountain tops and pictures of smiling children)!
Well, this is what a seemingly endless supply of internet forum posters and bloggers (none from this site I deeply hope!) would have you believe.
There are at least two reasons why this reasoning is so entirely wrong. 1). Just because the majority of people voted for a person doesn't mean that any individual person isn't racist. The majority of people in The United States think gay marriage is wrong, that doesn't mean I do! 2). Even among those who voted for Obama, people may have been more willing (in some cases) to vote for him if he was White.
