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noblepeasant:ruimtetijd: cheshireinthemiddle:cheshireinthemiddle: lastsonlost: willesqueleto: sighinastorm: hattersadventures: ghettablasta: Daryl Davis is a Chicago blues musician, who uses his friendship with KKK to convince members to leave this organization. He successfully persuaded 25 former white supremacists that there’s another way. Davis has his own strategy, he explains and talks to people in more than friendly way, that allows to prevent usual misunderstanding. ‘They may be yelling and screaming or pounding the table, but at least they’re talking, they’re not fighting.’ Davis choose to disarm them with polite conversation and smile. And this worked out. It doesn’t mean he’s anti-Black, he just chose his own path. No need to spread fake facts. This is very important! #StayWoke He dismantled every KKK group in his entire state by merely befriending the individual members. Look how effective his method was compared to screeching at people and calling them buzzwords. re-reblogging because holy shit why do people just outright lie about this stuff do they think nobody will check And Daryl’s case nobody wants to see better way of fighting racism. I saw his little documentary thing. I dont agree with everything he says, but he gets other black people so mad by implying that violence is not the answer. Like people were raising their voices at him and threatening him when he said “people can change”. How quickly people forget that non-violence works. Now it’s all “punch a nazi” and if you dont think assaulting someone for their opinions. Is acceptable, youre seen as perpetuating the issue. His TED talk is definitely worth watching (both on the subject AND if you want to get into discourse). in it, he talks about his experience meeting the imperial wizard, befriending him, and how eventually, their conversations and exchange in ideas led him to leave the KKK altogether. he didn’t set out with the goal to get Roger Kelly to stop being racist, his goal was to answer a question he had formed in childhood when his parents first explained racism to him: “how can you hate me, if you don’t even know me?” so he sought out the man who he figured would probably know best. btw the number is 200 ex-KKK members, not 25. People forget that racism is a learned thing, and can be un-learned: it doesn’t stay with you for life. -- source link