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Daryl Davis and KKK Hood

15/02/2019 GMT

Making friends with the KKK

The Right Thing

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, The Right Thing, Making friends with the KKK

The story of Daryl Davis, African-American musician and friend to white supremacists

The story of Daryl Davis, African-American musician and friend to white supremacists.

Daryl Davis collects Ku Klux Klan memorabilia – KKK robes, hoods and masks. He says they are given to him by those leaving the white supremacist organisation, after he has spent time befriending them and persuading them to change their views. Heart and Soul hears from Daryl about what drives him, his Christian faith and concerns about racial division within the church, and from Scott Shepherd, one of those he helped to leave the KKK.

Mike Wooldridge asks if Daryl is doing ‘the right thing’. His critics complain that his testifying in court in defence of violent extremists is a step too far, and that he would be better joining with others in calling for political change. But Daryl maintains that the sometimes risky meetings he initiates, for which he calls upon God’s protection, are a good way of changing people’s minds.

(Photo: Daryl Davis, 59, poses with a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe in the foreground, 2017. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Heart and Soul: The Right Thing

The stories of people who have faced some of the most difficult situations imaginable.

Mike Wooldridge presents a series featuring people who have had to make tough choices in order to do what they felt was the right thing. In each story, faith plays a key part, whether providing a motivation to choose a particular path, intervening as an unexpected influence, or as a cultural backdrop to difficult decisions.

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