Daryl Davis is a Black blues musician who first met a Klansman after a gig, when a white man came up to say he’d never heard a Black man play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. They got to talking, and the man pulled out his Klan card. Instead of walking away, Daryl got curious. For about 30 years he went around the country sitting down with Klan members and leaders, studying up so he could talk with them, and asking one simple question: how can you hate me when you don’t even know me? Friendships grew out of those conversations, and Daryl says about 200 Klansmen have given up their robes. He’s quick to say he didn’t convert anybody. They saw the light and changed themselves.
