General "Did you Know?"s

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Do you recognize this man?

No? Well, this man is called "Daryl Davis", an American R&B and blues musician who has played alongside Chuck Beery, Jerry Lee Lewis and even former president Bill Clinton. However, he's better know for converting a lot white supremacists so they can leave the KKK.

Uh? That how is that even posible? Glad you asked. You see, it all started back in 1983, where Daryl was playing country western music in a bar with mostly white people. A patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had "heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis". Davis explained to the man that "Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie woogie piano players and he's a friend of mine." The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually, the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.

A few years later he decided to interview Klan menbers in order to answer a question he had since youth: 'Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?'. This interviews led to over 200 people leaving the KKK altogheter, to the point that Davis pretty much disbanded the Klu Klux Klan in the state of Maryland. Some of this menbers gave Daryl their robes, which he hopes to showcase in a "museum of the Klan". All of this expirences were recorded in a book he wrote called Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.

To sum it up: by showing Klansmen that they can coexist with black people ultimately resulted in them no longer believing in what the KKK stands for (thus leaving).

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Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle...e2f2734eea (About Davis performing with Berry and Jerry Lee)
https://web.archive.org/web/201501021843...rce_type=B 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n1SKcq7J4s
http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/stories...kkk-in-md/
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mov...story.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...an/388733/