540: Daryl Davis | A Black Man's Odyssey in the KKK Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 49 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. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part one here!]
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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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.8 | He thinks, man, I just had a three-hour conversation with a black guy. |
| 0:07.3 | You know, and we didn't come to blows with that guy said about such and such. |
| 0:11.6 | It makes sense. |
| 0:13.1 | Or what he said about whatever is true. |
| 0:17.1 | And then they're confused because they realize the truth came from a black person |
| 0:23.6 | which does not compute properly. |
| 0:25.8 | So they begin having a cognitive dissonance which turns into a dilemma. |
| 0:30.7 | Do I believe what that derog I said? |
| 0:33.1 | Should I disregard his skin color and believe the truth and change my ideological path? |
| 0:39.1 | Or should I look at his skin color and continue living a lie, even though I know what he said |
| 0:43.7 | was true? |
| 0:44.7 | That's a struggle for them. |
| 0:46.6 | And in most cases, they will follow the truth. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:54.4 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:58.0 | most fascinating people. |
| 0:59.6 | We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game, astronauts and entrepreneurs, |
| 1:04.5 | spies and psychologists, even the occasional national security advisor, arms trafficker |
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