“I think, yes, I believed then and I still believe—though maybe now I’d say it better, or differently—that the socioeconomic question is the more pressing one. I think the emphasis—on race, on ethnicity—of the current political discourse is misguided, pathological even, and misses a lot of opportunities to improve the economic situation for everyone, not just groups that we arbitrarily deem underrepresented or underserved, which, by the way, is always going to be a moving target and is always going to be a nonstarter in terms of garnering any meaningful bipartisan support.”
