Ineed analyzing the poem:

if you were exchanged in the cradle and
your real mother died
without ever telling the story
then no one knows your name,
and somewhere in the world
your father is lost and needs you
but you are far away.

he can never find
how true you are, how ready.
when the great wind comes
and the robberies of the rain
you stand on the corner shivering.
the people who go by–
you wonder at their calm.

they miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
“who are you really, wanderer? ”–
and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold
the world around you is:
“maybe i’m a king.”

answer: i would say he was very determined and persistent in overcoming obstacles.

explanation:   "the magician of menlo park" as he was called, liked to tell an incident that happened when he was 8 years old and came back home crying after attending school for three months because his teacher called him "sterile and unproductive". from nowadays perspective, we can say that thomas alva edison was one of the most persistent and determined man that has ever existed. when edison was 14, he contracted scarlet fever. the effect of the fever, as well as a blow to the head by an angry train conductor, caused edison to become completely deaf in his left ear, and 80-percent deaf in the other. so as you can see he had to struggle to not so many minor issues but he always succeeded.

i think the anti-race spokesman is working to achieve equality between whites and blacks and to encourage blacks to shakespeare's theory