Racial Politics - As Defined by Nightlife

Ah yes, Racial politics...everyone's favorite subject.

Over the past few weeks, I've been attempting to write this post without sounding too emotional about the subject as well as too loquacious. So after much mediation on the subject, I feel that I'm finally ready to tackle it in a some-what eloquent manner.

If you go into any nightclub in America, you tend to experience the same things. You see the binge drinking, you hear the loud music, everyone brushes against each other - sometimes in a more than provocative manner; and if you look deep enough you see the subconscious segregation. You see the blacks dancing with the blacks, the whites dancing with the whites...almost as if the laws of the 60s still applied. On rare instances, you may see the two intermingle; but these desultory instances are few and far in between. Furthermore, you may notice one or two blacks in an all white VIP booth, and vice versa...almost as if a token is an absolute necessity to validate one's clubbing experience.

When? Why? What for? All questions, I have to ask whenever I notice this circumstance.

Its almost like a chapter from Dr. Beverly Tatum's book, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" Almost like the scene from Hairspray where there is a velvet rope placed in between the Blacks and the Whites at the High School dance, but this time the velvet rope is invisible. Does it play into the fear that many races have about mixing? Intermingling? Dating? Or is it deeper?

In closing, I simply state that we can never hope to be the "post-racial society" we claim to be if we are too afraid to mingle amongst each other in the most insignificant of places.

What are you opinions on the matter? This a post that is open to debate/discussion.