Daryl Davis is talking about a different time when the outward racists were holding their beliefs and weren’t actively being violent towards others. Daryl Davis could easily have been killed as many people have before him. He only changed 20-40 minds directly he says maybe 200 indirectly. 1980s to 2000s was a different time. You can change an individuals mind in private if you foster a close connection with them. You can’t stop Nazis and racists in power with words. Never has non violent protests worked without violent protests and back drops. From women’s rights to nazi Germany. Power needs to be forcibly stripped from their hands and they need to fear the publics judgment to put their hate in the closet then when things calm down we can take the hate out of the closet and talk it out. But not until after they drop the reins of power. You can’t help others root through their hatred when they are carting family’s away.
Daryl Davis is talking about a different time when the outward racists were holding their beliefs and weren’t actively being violent towards others. Daryl Davis could easily have been killed as many people have before him. He only changed 20-40 minds directly he says maybe 200 indirectly. 1980s to 2000s was a different time. You can change an individuals mind in private if you foster a close connection with them. You can’t stop Nazis and racists in power with words. Never has non violent protests worked without violent protests and back drops. From women’s rights to nazi Germany. Power needs to be forcibly stripped from their hands and they need to fear the publics judgment to put their hate in the closet then when things calm down we can take the hate out of the closet and talk it out. But not until after they drop the reins of power. You can’t help others root through their hatred when they are carting family’s away.