But Navarro also explained why within the context of post-election racial fears, news of Bannon's new position is so unwelcome. .
All this meant that black America knew that, contrary to the New York Times headline following the election, "the racial barrier" had not fallen with Obama's election; it had become a selectively permeable membrane, though that in itself was reason enough to do the Electric Slide in the streets.
Much has been made of this election's racial angle: Mr Reed is black and Ms Norwood, who won 46% of the vote in November's first round (in Georgia a candidate must win an outright majority to avoid a runoff), is white.
Alaa Aissi, a UC Berkeley student senator, told regents about an increase — since the election — in racial and religious slurs against Muslims like herself who wear head coverings on campus.
Those allegations, which stemmed from an edited video posted to Facebook, set off a series of massive, and at times chaotic, protests in the streets of the capital, and cast the election in racial and sectarian tones. .
THE white students at Ole Miss who greeted President Obama's decisive re-election with racial slurs and nasty disruptions on Tuesday night show that the long shadows of race still hang eerily over us.
But African-Americans roundly reject the notion that Mr. Obama's election has eased racial tensions or delivered the nation to a new post-racial reality.
