Indiana Weekend

11/09/12 –  Election and Race
Almost lost in the final week of the presidential race were the results of an Associated Press poll on race, which found that racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president. In other words, we’ve not only elected the first black president in American history – but now we’ve reelected him – and yet the racial gulf between whites and blacks has grown wider, not closed. We talk with Professor Charles Payne, native of Philadelphia, Miss., during the Jim Crow era and now director of the Office of Institutional Diversity at Ball State University, about why that is.