The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.