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May I direct you to watch Daryl Davis's ted talk or really anything he speaks about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw https://www.youtube.com/watch?
by hpoe 6y ago
May I direct you to watch Daryl Davis's ted talk or really anything he speaks about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw
For context he is a black man that has gotten over a hundred leaders of the KKK, including former convicts to leave the Klan. Not by arguing with them, not be reasoning, not by showing them the effects of their behaviour, but instead by sitting down, talking with them and becoming their friend.
In a nutshell this one man has probably done more to combat racism, than all the angry tweets on twitter combined.
- bgee 6y agoWhat a talk. Thanks.
- gameswithgo 6y agohe is amazing, I lack the self control
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- melq 6y ago"I am a musician, not a psychologist or sociologist. If I can do that, anyone can do that. Take the time to talk with your adversaries, you will both learn something." Thanks for the link, that was an incredible talk, and that guy is cool as hell.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoDaryl Davis is certainly a wonderful inspiration in his patience, compassion and effectiveness in reaching racists. However I'm not sure about using him as a model for how activists should behave. What that's essentially requiring is that activists should patiently reach out until the people oppressing them learn enough to stop oppressing them. In some cases this is possible. The Klu Klux Klan is comprised of broken men who dance in costumes at night. What about the racists who do not do that? Who enact their racism as government policy? Or as housing discrimination? Or through their art? How long will it take to reach them? To quote James Baldwin^[1]: > You always told me it takes time. It's taken my father's time, my mother's time, my uncle's time, my brothers' and my sisters' time, my nieces' and my nephews' time. How much time do you want. For your progress. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUlE5ldPvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUlE5ldPvM
- blub 6y agoIf one uses twitter and mobbing to do it, one will never reach them.