David Gergen actually said...

I'm confident that at the end, we're not going back to Jim Crow. This country has changed dramatically. There is goodwill on the part of a huge number of whites now. I don't care what this president does. He's not going to be able to turn back that tide. And thank God for it.

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Gergen expresses confidence in the progress of race relations in the U.S. despite the current president's actions.

08/15/2017

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