Political science professor John Altman was quoted in two stories about Martin Luther King Jr. Day and President Obama's impact on race in America. Orlando Sentinel: "America has come a long way; though it has a long way to go and will likely never achieve complete racial harmony," says John Altman, a political scientist at York College of Pennsylvania. "When the only memorable thing that our current president has done to further the discourse on race relations is to bring together a white cop and a black college professor for a beer, it will be a long time before anything changes." The Christian Science Monitor: The very notion of a "post-racial" society emerging from the election of a black president is a "racist idea," according to John Altman, an associate professor of political scienc...