Daryl Davis

Daryl Davis

26-Mar-1958


United States


Musician

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Keep in mind, when two enemies are talking, they're not fighting, they're talking. They might be yelling and screaming, but at least they're talking. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.

Antifa is now the one wearing the bandanas across their face or the masks. A lot of these groups - let's take Black Lives Matter, let's take Antifa, let's take the Ku Klux Klan - none of these groups today are centralized. They're all autonomous... It's the same thing with Antifa.

We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.

If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy - it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything... you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship.

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.

A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.

I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He's bringing out the country's ugliness. There's no turning a blind eye anymore.

There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.

I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the rhetoric that he uses, attracts racists and that sets the tone. And of course, you are judged by the company you keep.

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