Even if President Obama names minorities to fill the few Cabinet openings where there isn’t a white, male frontrunner, his team will still be far less diverse than the second terms of the last two re-elected presidents: George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

As he faces criticism for turning his Cabinet into a good old boy’s club, it is growing increasingly apparent that it will be impossible for the nation’s first black president to have a second term cabinet as or more diverse than his predecessors.