All hail our “post-racial” president!

Via Politico:

President Barack Obama on Friday made a rare dissertation on race and class in America, telling a New York town hall the struggle in helping the poor is a political one. […]

“Fifty years after the March on Washington and the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, obviously we have made enormous strides,” Obama said to the professor. “I’m a testament to it, you’re a testament to it, the diversity of this room and the students who here are a testament to it. And that impulse toward making sure everybody gets a fair shot is one that found expression in the civil rights movement and then spread to include Latinos and immigrants and gays and lesbians.”

Obama said he is encouraged because younger people are typically more tolerant of people not like them than were their parents. Though he said hurdles brought on by generations of discrimination will not disappear quickly.

“What’s wonderful to watch is the younger generation, each generation seems wiser about wanting to treat people fairly and do the right thing and not discriminate and that’s a great victory that we should all be very proud of,” Obama said. “On the other hand, what we’ve also see is the legacy of discrimination, slavery, Jim Crow, has meant that some of the institutional barriers for success for a lot of groups still exist. African American poverty in this country is still significantly higher than other groups. The same is true for Latinos, same is true for Native Americans.