let's ask shelby steel. bring us time in east st. louis illinois.had indulged in segregation and jim crow. i grew up in a world of segregation and racism. so i was -- i was really a part of that. this was part of the black power sort of move that said we're not going to tolerate it anymore. it's over. and even as sacred as the winning stand of the olympic games, we're going to bring our protest to the whole world. so i supported them. i also, i also supported george foreman. my father was the son of literally a slave. i'm the grandson of a slave. so, i grew up in a family that devoted to civil rights. but my father would say. a chance because it was a great country. what we wanted, all we wanted was to get in. we didn't want to change america. we didn't hate america. we wanted to join america. and we wanted to have america welcome us in. and george foreman stood for that and so i think both parties were born out of the same tension. >> brian: 168 there weren't all those things and there was a vietnam war and there was racial unrest and there was a d

. ♪♪ welcome back, the great shelby steele hoover institution senior fellow, author of a greatom shelby, joe biden gave an inaugural address in which he said he's going to unite the country. you are an observer of these racial issues and intellectual and scholar who's written about them for decades. his joe biden heading in the right or wrong direction? >> i think he's headed in the wrong direction. his whole view is to take us further and further left to d individualize us. everything he says his larger philosophical orientation, against the development of individualism, meaning to socialism and marxism, the far left. certainly in regard to black america, we need a focus on the potential of the individual and we need public policies reflect that, enhance the individual. we have way too much focus on group and collective identity. those are identities take people away from their life, incapacitate them in many ways so listening to who was played a little while ago, i think he says biden does not understand the importance, part of the american dream is that the individual has a