The Washington Post, June 3, 2010 by Perry Bacon Jr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060302523_pf.html
“We have had breakthroughs, but the obstacles are still there,” said Christopher Edley, who was special adviser to the president for the White House Initiative on Race in the Clinton administration and is now dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “The bench is weak. If you look at lower office levels or state legislatures, I think the picture is dramatically better, but we haven’t been able to bring enough people up from there.”