Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Daryl Davis is an African American musician responsible for de-radicalizing over 200 Klansmen and Neo-Nazis in his attempts to understand racism. He joins Heaton to talk about his experience, contact science, and the best ways to overcome bigotry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. Are you more interested in coming up with solutions to problems than |
| 0:14.2 | discovering new reasons to hate your political opponents? Are you one of those |
| 0:18.4 | weirdos who still has friends you disagree with? If so, welcome home. I'm your host Andrew Heen. I am joined today by |
| 0:26.3 | Mr. Darrell Davis, who I am so excited to speak with. Darrell Davis is a very multi-talented individual. He's a musician, a pianist, a singer. I think |
| 0:37.6 | Blues, is that right, Darrell? Whatever they pay me to play. My degree is in jazz, but I play blues rock and roll country boogie |
| 0:46.1 | willy willy big band swing r and b whatever that's that's I kind of do that with comedy |
| 0:51.1 | when people reach out to me they're like can you can you make this one thing funny? |
| 0:54.4 | And I'm like, yeah, I can I can make your think tank literature |
| 0:57.0 | about water rights of music. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, I'll do that. |
| 0:59.6 | But but you're so your your professional background is in, but I think what I find fascinating, what we'll talk about today, is that you attend KKK rallies and have brought, I think, over a couple hundred individuals out of the clan. |
| 1:17.0 | I think, Darryl, you are doing amazing things, like truly wonderful things, and I am just excited to talk to you about what you do and |
| 1:26.6 | and and and and how to fix racism and all of that. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having me. I'm glad to share, you know, whatever I can for my own personal experiences, which I think will work for other people as well. |
| 1:38.0 | I hope so. Well, and so I can see you. You're of course very handsome. We're both wearing brightly colored |
| 1:44.3 | dress shirts by the way for anybody listening. We looked like I don't look like I could |
| 1:49.6 | be in your band I'm not that cool but I do look like maybe I could hand out tickets for your band or something, |
| 1:54.6 | like we kind of are, we have similar dress style, but for anybody listening, |
| 1:59.2 | Darryl is black, just so you know, so the stakes are high when Darrell goes to |
| 2:04.4 | Clan rallies it's not like like like I could in theory blended if I wanted to |
| 2:08.2 | Darrell is gonna stand out a little bit so Darrell walk me through this. |
| 2:13.0 | How did you get to the point where you're |
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