539: Daryl Davis | A Black Man's Odyssey in the KKK Part One
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Daryl Davis (@realdaryldavis) is a musician, author, lecturer, host of the Changing Minds podcast, and anti-racism activist featured in the documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America.
What We Discuss with Daryl Davis:- How Daryl Davis, a black musician who was once told by a Ku Klux Klansman that he played piano "just like Jerry Lee Lewis," leveraged the encounter into a teachable moment that has led to more than 200 KKK members hanging up their robes for good.
- Why racism was such an unfathomable concept when Daryl first experienced it as a 10-year-old Cub Scout.
- How traveling around the world as a child with his diplomat father gave Daryl the tools he needed to sit down and relate to people vastly different from him.
- Why Daryl considers a missed opportunity for dialogue to be a missed opportunity for conflict resolution.
- The five values all humans have in common that Daryl uses to positively navigate (almost) any conversation.
- And much more...
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| 0:33.6 | If you find yourself in a culture or society with which you're unfamiliar |
| 0:39.9 | and you apply those five values to those people, |
| 0:42.9 | I can guarantee you the navigation will be much more smooth and much more positive. |
| 0:47.8 | So essentially I just viewed white supremacist as another culture. |
| 0:52.9 | And I applied those values. |
| 0:55.0 | And that's what allowed me, you know, |
| 0:57.8 | interest into that world. |
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| 1:03.8 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
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