The greatest weapon that we have to combat anti-Semitism, racism, any kind of discrimination

is the least expensive, the most effective, and most underused.

This conversation is free. Hey everybody. Welcome to Literally. Today we have a an amazing conversation

with a man named Gerald Davis and Gerald Davis has lived continues to live an amazing

amazing life. He grew up in many African nations. His father is, what way do you hear about his father?

Darryl has devoted his life to the conversation of race in a way that no one else has.

He is the authority on the K K. K.

The authority on the K K.

And he's black.

And his work in his experience and his story about going, not undercover so much, but just infiltrating in his own way the K K K and what that

taught him about human understanding and race is spectacular and this is a very special episode with my guy,

Darrell Davis. Gerald, thank you for coming. I've been aware of your work for a long time, but I've never really done a deep dive on it and this was the opportunity for me to do it and I'm super

psyched to talk to you're you're quite an amazing man and what you do is I think

super important today. Well I appreciate the interest and the opportunity.

First of all I just want to go back to your life as a young man so your dad worked at the

Department of State Foreign Affairs is that right?

Yeah, U.S State Department, U.S. State Department, correct.

Okay, now I'm just going to come right and ask you.

Was he a spy?

If I knew I couldn't tell, right?

Because whenever I hear that, I go, okay, look, there are always, you know, there are diplomats, there are, there absolutely are, and then a lot of them are.

And for good reason, you ask that question question because a lot of them are.

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