Many people argue that we are in a post racist society. This is in fact not true. There is no such thing as a post racial society provided we continue to define people by race. The current debates regarding the changing of the text of Huckleberry Finn is evidence that race is still very much a part of our cultural legacy and identity. But to remove offending words from historical texts is to whitewash the past and pretend that racism didn't exist in the heinous way that it of course did. We must