I would agree that it's not un-important.

If it makes people feel good, I don't begrudge it. The thing is Davis' conception of racism is fairly out of date and presenting what he does in the way that people tend to do makes it seem like this is how we solve racism.

Getting overt Klansmen to acknowledge that maybe not all black people are monsters is great but it doesn't really move the needle much.

Anyone who's been around someone who's extremely racist can tell you they can usually find an exception or two among the group of people they hate where they don't hate that person as much but that doesn't shift their perspective on racism as a whole.

There's an excellent exchange between Daryl Davis and Tariq Toure and Kwame Rose in the documentary Accidental Courtesy where Toure and Rose call Davis out for his shortsightedness and Davis' response is just to shut down and call them "ignorant."

In fairness, Davis and Rose have talked since and they've worked a lot of things out but Davis' perspective is still extremely limited and he doesn't really seem to want to expand it by much. It wasn't until very recently that I saw him discussing concepts of privilege at all and that's a critical part of the conversation.