i think, everyone recognizes that still a lot of work needs to be done. remedial efforts need to be taken still. racism is part of america. but i did a thing one night about propreggive phobia which is a term steven pinker coined, which is somehow liberals got afraid to acknowledge progress. it s two thoughts in your head at the same time. you can acknowledge we have made great progress on all the social issues, and yet there is still more work to be done. we re not saying mission accomplished. we re just saying let s live in the year we re living in. you can t come up with good solutions unless you re realistic about what the problem is. i mean, it was only like 10 or 20 years ago that no state in america would vote for gay marriage. i mean, it was on the ballot like 35 times. now it s the law of the land, and no one is against it. i mean, when i was a kid i grew up in new jersey, which is not a southern state. and it was a completely white