Actual modern day neo-Nazis and Klansman (insofar as such things exist) are more willing to have polite conversations or even friendships with blacks, than this particular type of black is willing to have with white people.

This is another reason the Daryl Davis "conversions" story always felt like kind of a lie. Whether their opinions were right or wrong, the dumb hick white racists were always willing to sit down and chat with a black man. It's the modern woke anti-racist liberal who despises everything about the dumb hick white racist without ever having met him, and utterly refuses to speak to heretics even to convince them they are wrong. The same wokes who tried to prevent Daryl from even presenting his story at events. It's not at all surprising that an engaging black man could bring the racist around to his side. Nobody else had ever tried because the racist is the oppressed minority that everyone hates.