The reason for my questions is simple. What should be the goals of a diverse society of which you are member.

MLK said they should be total integration.

Malcolm X held the view that distinct identity groups should exist and share power, income and wealth.

Neither are a reality today, both ideologies are competing for the hearts of people. I embrace MLK's view of integration down to the personal level. My wife is Asian, daughter-in-law is African, most of my grandchildren are African American.

MLK's "dream" was grounded in American values of equality as expressed through equal opportunity, not outcomes.

Malcolm X's beliefs were grounded in Marxism and emerged as "wokeism" in the 1950s as promoted by some African American thought leaders.

I do not have gall pointing out the disparity in medical school admissions, those are facts that highlight even with favorable discrimination towards blacks and against Asian, Asians are still overrepresented in medical school and blacks still underrepresented.

I do not presume Asians are smarter than blacks, so the problem lies elsewhere. I raise these issues because I see how the current system favors my black grandchildren and works against inner city black children.

You can achieve diversity quotas by admitting black children from upper income families like my grandchildren and totally ignore generational poverty among the poor that disproportionately impacts black children. That is what DEI and similar programs perpetuate.

I do have a different experience than you. We are a multi and mixed-race family, but our values work. Turns out skin color is not the big divide people pretend it is.

Malcolm X's approach produces a "class system". My black grandchildren would naturally sit atop the black class having access to better education than poor black children. I don't think that is fair to poor black or white children.

I do not subscribe to socialism; it simply does not work. So, the only answer I am left with is trying to provide poor children the maximum opportunity to escape generational poverty through education. I am happy that such an approach disproportionately benefits black children, not because they are black, but because they are poor and deserve a chance not to be poor.

So, my POV is grounded in classical liberalism with an eye towards achieving equality among the races through education. Starting in college or in the workplace is far too late.

Let me give you a test, you can do... and get back to me with what you find...

Ask your adult black friends, what Kumon is? Ask your adult Asian friends, what Kumon is? If you want to know, why Asians are the highest earning, wealthiest, and longest living demographic group in America, it is not because of their skin color... it is because of their culture and their almost maniacal focus on education.

So, the question is if the Asians lifted themselves collectively to the highest earning and wealth owning racial group in two generations, can blacks do the same thing? Can blacks at least achieve parity?

My strength throughout my career was digging deep into numbers to discover truth. So much of what today we think of as racism is simply a failure to recognize how important education is to economic success. That is not to deny racism exists... look at the antisemitism on college campuses. And yet did antisemitism cause Jews to fail economically? How did Jews overcome such powerful racist attitudes... again, we come back to education.

It was not "gall" to point out the truth about medical schools. The MCAT and GPAs are objective measures that point to discrimination in favor of blacks and against Asians and in spite of that the schools cannot achieve equity. It is just another indicator that something is producing different educational outcomes among races.

Dig even deeper and I think you will find that around 25% of the black community and about half that among the general population are living in poverty and for children growing up in poverty the values taught to these young children to often perpetuate poverty.