Writing in the Times, author and analytics novice Colson Whitehead employs Google search data to prove his theory that our country has officially entered an era of "postraciality." Noting that
journalists, in his opinion, employ Google searches to lend credence to trend articles, he compares recent hits on the word "postracial" with those of a previous year. What year? 1982. His finding?
"There have been more than 500,000 online mentions of postraciality this year, as opposed to absolutely zero in 1982." Boom. Case closed. Oh, and Whitehead would like to nominates himself Secretary of
Postracial Affairs.
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