Daryl Davis - Healing Hate with Friendship

Untangle

Health & Fitness

4.3 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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One of our most important podcasts ever, a riveting story that teaches us how to overcome our divides through respect, patience, and recognition of shared humanity. Daryl Davis is a black man who has gotten over 200 KKK clansmen to leave the KKK by becoming friends with them. Daryl tells incredible stories of these meetings and shares his powerful method for conversing with someone from another viewpoint. It is a snapshot of what is possible to achieve in our divided country, and a methodology we can all use to do it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app. I'm Patricia Carpus. I'm excited to share something new from Muse. If you're like the rest of us that struggle with getting a good night's sleep, you'll want to check out the new digital sleeping pill.
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0:45.9	discount code launch 15 to give it a try. Now on to REO. Today I have the most amazing guest for you.
0:57.1	He is a man that really shows us the possibility of how two disparate sides can come together.
1:03.7	His name is Daryl Davis, and he's a black man who has convinced over 200 Ku Klux Klan members
1:09.5	to give up their robes by boldly and bravely
1:13.2	walking in deep into their lives deep into the heart of the Ku Klux Klan becoming friends with
1:18.7	them and showing them his sheer humanity. Today we're going to hear Darrell's story and learn
1:25.3	how it is that he through his empathy, compassion, insight, and
1:30.0	bravery has been able to really embrace a methodology that allows people from opposite sides
1:36.2	to come together, learn from one other, become friends, heal, and grow. Welcome, Daryl. Thank you,
1:43.0	Ariel. It's a little pleasure to be here with you. Thank you for having me.
1:45.8	It is such a pleasure. You're such an extraordinary human being. Sorry to embarrass you. I am so
1:52.1	excited to be able to share your story and your insights today. Oh, it's my pleasure, and I hope your
1:56.3	listeners will enjoy it. Thank you. Why don't you begin by telling us the backstory to how and why you were
2:02.8	able to penetrate the clan? Okay. I'm age 62 currently. And as a child, my parents were in the U.S.
2:10.5	Foreign Service. So I spent a lot of my formative years, starting at the age of three and on through
2:16.2	elementary school, traveling abroad,
2:19.0	living in various foreign countries. You go to a country for two years, then you come back
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