America has managed to transform itself to one of the most open and diverse societies on the planet and in the history of the world.

Obama's problem was not his skin color but his politics. In fact, as a white man with five black children, I would tell my grandchildren they too could be President like Obama, just do not be like Obama.

Obama unfortunately brought with him the baggage of "woke" ideology that developed in America in the 50s and became popular with black leaders like Malcolm X. The success of "woke" ideology set this country back almost 20 years.

We went from becoming a country striving for equal rights and equal opportunity to a country that tried to allocate power proportionately based on skin color. This is a losing strategy for blacks. It causes some to rise up on the shoulders of other blacks rather than lifting up everyone.

Fortunately, MLK's ideology of integration did continue to co-exist and as "wokeism" has begun to collapse, we are back to embracing MLK's version of classical liberalism.

However, our challenge in order to fully realize MLK's dream, is not to leave anyone behind. we can't leave any Americans behind. It is not that 12% of future President will be black, but rather every child born in America has a chance to be President.

While we are doing a good job of integrating at the racial level with mixed race families being the fastest growing demographic in America today. We have failed to fix generational poverty.

Poor children of all skin colors are not escaping poverty and helping the children of rich black children succeed won't solve that. My black grandchildren will do just fine, but what about the poor black child in urban America... how will helping my grandchildren get preference help them?