I don't think he is saying what you think he is saying. I took it more along the lines of we (free society) want to believe that anyone can be anything if they

I don't think he is saying what you think he is saying. I took it more along the lines of we (free society) want to believe that anyone can be anything if they are given the right opportunities in life from birth. Someone could mistakenly take that to an extreme about whole classes of people but that's not what the comment was about IMO.