I was not really commenting on how he achieved his success. I was commenting on the appeal to the "American Dream(tm)". Though if you want to follow it to the

I was not really commenting on how he achieved his success. I was commenting on the appeal to the "American Dream(tm)". Though if you want to follow it to the root if he was born black in the townships he likely would not have amounted to much, no matter how hard he worked it is unlikely he would have ever made it out of the country.