King shifted his focus from the deep south to the ghettos of chicago , but his attempts to spur the creation of " unions to end slums " foundered amidst urban despair and the biracial organizational muscle of mayor richard j. daley 's political machine .
Out of his story , he has also drawn the central promise of his campaign : if a biracial son of a kenyan and a kansan could reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable in himself , a divided country could do the same .
As part of tell me more 's special focus on the american family today , host michel martin speaks with biracial authors june cross and gregory williams .
Without the arrival of today 's generation of new , young voters , who see a biracial candidate as nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the america they have grown up knowing , there wouldn 't have been the same kind of historic outpouring of registrations and votes from newly minted democrats under the age of 30 .