“Regardless of the president, and what color the president is, [the lack of Capitol Hill diversity] was a problem before and it will be a problem after,” said Rodell Mollineau, a former staffer to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and now chairman of Democratic GAIN, an association of progressive political professionals. “There weren’t a lot of people of color to begin with.”
I said it before and I'll say it again, racism is systemic and institutional. It will take another generation to get rid of something that has been considered normal for so long, but is so ungodly and a cancer in today's society.