i'm not sure whose families he's talking about. this is a fairy tale that people tell themselves that there was a glorious past and the bitter inhumane institution on which it was built somehow either didn't mach a difference or went aaway after a couple of protests, but it's a story that one hears quite often that there's this notion that america is all about progress and progress goes from the -- the distant past to the glorious future and what happens in between and what makes its happen is often skipped over. >> all right. really quick i want to get some reaction. doug jones, roy moore's opponent sent out this flyer kind of giving this and looking perplex perplexed. it's not gone over too well. earlier in the hour, it was said