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Members to give up their robes he joins me today to share his story. Despite decades of victories for the Civil Rights Movement americas race problem is still permeating the fabric of society with new hardline and loud civil Rights Groups bringing racism to the spotlight again. With the parallel rows of White Supremacists and right wing is is the aggressive protest tactic backfiring or provoking an extremist response can racism in the u. S. Only be confronted with militancy. The method of calm conversation and gradual awareness also without provoking fun. Darrell davis musician and author of the book clan the same relationships welcome to the show its really great to have you with us sotero you are quite famous for befriending k. K. K. Members and in many cases your friendship resulted in them living the klan y ....
Rocked the georgian capital tbilisi. They can download b r t out feel mobile device to stay up to speed on the latest news updates no matter where you are coming up next to it sophie encourage. Them to go on so if you shevardnadze it is said the number of white supremacist hate groups is on the right but my guest today is convinced that their message of hate can be decided with. Darrell davis musician who convinced hundreds of klan members to give up their ropes he joins me today to share his story. Despite decades of victories for the Civil Rights Movement americas. It is still the fabric of society these new hard line and loud civil Rights Groups bringing racism to the spotlight again. With a parallel rise of White Supremacists and right wing is. Protest tactic backfiring or provoking an extremist response ca ....
A mosque begin to matter less and less so theyll be ensuring that ideology so over time just over 200. 00 members have left i dont want to say that i converted them but i was the impetus for their conversion they converted themselves you know as a result of the dialogue that we would have yeah but. When you said i want to sic i want to say converted well thats how it looks like that you sort of converted them but those that you did convert so to speak are not real racists from what i understand because if they were for real they wouldnt be talking to you i mean. So where does this collective bigotry come from if it is so is a way to spell it with a good polite conversation 5 or 10 minutes you. See. You are a rational person so therefore youre looking for rationale yes these are real racist people indeed theres no question about it if they werent they would not be in the most racist organization known to this country the ku klux klan i so yes many of them are very hard core racists but ....
Wrote a book about it so when you were starting to work on your book did you yourself have any preconceptions about clansmen on how many of those stages are eventually. Well yes i did have some up preconceptions about them because you know as a child we hear things like a tiger never change its stripes a leopard never changes the spots so why would i think that a klansman would change his robe and hood so i had no intentions or perceived ideas that these people and i think all i want to know from them was how can you hate me you dont even know me just tell me that and ill be happy but through the course of conversation and dialogue we began to humanize one another and we will find if you spend 5 minutes with your worst enemy you will find something in common if you spend 2 minutes i mean 10 minutes youll find even more so if you nurture those commonalities you are forging a relationship if you know which are the relationship you are then forging a friendship and so that friendship the ....