The New York Times, July 25, 2009 by Peter Baker and Helene Cooper
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/politics/25gates.html?_r=1
Christopher Edley Jr., a former adviser to President Bill Clinton on race issues and now law school dean at the University of California, Berkeley, said the episode dispelled the “rosy hopefulness” stemming from Mr. Obama’s election “in case anybody needed more evidence that we’re not beyond race.”