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cjrl-2293	Archer, Deborah N.	There Is No Santa Claus: The Challenge Of Teaching The Next Generation Of Civil Rights Lawyers In A “Post-Racial” Society	2013	18	.pdf	application/pdf	11220	470	52	This orientation to disparities shapes people’s response to claims of racism: because de jure racial discrimination is largely a relic of the past, post-racialists believe there is essentially a level playing field between Whites and racial minorities.29 One consequence of this orientation is that we ignore the present effects of our racist past and the consequences of having built our society along racial divides.30 Indeed, post-racial narratives “sever contemporary racial reality from historical events that shaped it and suggest that the consequences of systemic racial oppression ended long ago. 665 (2011) (stating that commentators have characterized America as post-racial after the election of the first African American president); Ian F. Haney Lopez, Is the “Post” in Post-Racial the “Blind” in Colorblind?, 32 CARDOZO L. REV. 807 (2011) (noting that after Obama’s election, commentators marvel that we now live in a post-racial America).	cache/cjrl-2293.pdf	txt/cjrl-2293.txt