Reached another devastating and unthinkable moment in a pandemic that continues to change our country and our way of life. As we come on the air tonight, more than 200,000 people in the u. S. Have now been killed by the virus. 200,000 lives lost, 200,000 stories left unfinished. And tonight, theres some breaking news that the crisis may once again be getting worse. One of the leading models used by the white house now projects that by the end of the year, the death toll nationwide may nearly double to 378,000. Tonight, confirmed cases in the u. S. Are also increasing, now growing at the fastest rate they have in two months. And the f. D. A. Is reportedly tightening its standards for approving a coronavirus vaccine, dimming hopes that there will be one widely available this year. Once again, thrusting the pandemic into the forefront of this years president ial campaign. Tonight, theres also been another Seismic Shift here in washington with major implications for this years election. Se
Members to give up their robes he joins me today to share his story. Despite decades of victories for the Civil Rights Movement americas race problem is still permeating the fabric of society with new hardline and loud civil Rights Groups bringing racism to the spotlight again. With the parallel rows of White Supremacists and right wing is is the aggressive protest tactic backfiring or provoking an extremist response can racism in the u. S. Only be confronted with militancy. The method of calm conversation and gradual awareness also without provoking fun. Darrell davis musician and author of the book clan the same relationships welcome to the show its really great to have you with us sotero you are quite famous for befriending k. K. K. Members and in many cases your friendship resulted in them living the klan you wrote a book about it so when you were starting to work on your book did you yourself have any preconceptions about the klansman going how many of those stager eventually gave
Rocked the georgian capital tbilisi. They can download b r t out feel mobile device to stay up to speed on the latest news updates no matter where you are coming up next to it sophie encourage. Them to go on so if you shevardnadze it is said the number of white supremacist hate groups is on the right but my guest today is convinced that their message of hate can be decided with. Darrell davis musician who convinced hundreds of klan members to give up their ropes he joins me today to share his story. Despite decades of victories for the Civil Rights Movement americas. It is still the fabric of society these new hard line and loud civil Rights Groups bringing racism to the spotlight again. With a parallel rise of White Supremacists and right wing is. Protest tactic backfiring or provoking an extremist response can racism in the u. S. Only be confronted with militancy. In the method of calm conversation and gradual away. Without provoking fun. Darrell davis musician and author of the book
A mosque begin to matter less and less so theyll be ensuring that ideology so over time just over 200. 00 members have left i dont want to say that i converted them but i was the impetus for their conversion they converted themselves you know as a result of the dialogue that we would have yeah but. When you said i want to sic i want to say converted well thats how it looks like that you sort of converted them but those that you did convert so to speak are not real racists from what i understand because if they were for real they wouldnt be talking to you i mean. So where does this collective bigotry come from if it is so is a way to spell it with a good polite conversation 5 or 10 minutes you. See. You are a rational person so therefore youre looking for rationale yes these are real racist people indeed theres no question about it if they werent they would not be in the most racist organization known to this country the ku klux klan i so yes many of them are very hard core racists but
Where does this collective bigotry come from if it is so is a later spelt with a good polite conversation 5 or 10 minutes you. See. You are a rational person so therefore youre looking for rationale yes these are real racist people indeed theres no question about it if they werent they would not be in the most racist organization known to this country the ku klux klan i so yes many of them are very hard core racists but the reason why some of them will top know there are those who would not talk to me out of fear of me out of thinking that they were that much superior than me and didnt have time for me or whatever but those who did talk to me yes indeed were racist but they did not feel that they had anything to lose you know they wanted to demonstrate their superiority over me we just why they talk to me but over time they began to find out that we have more in common than we had in superiority or inferiority so what were those people like tell me more about them were they hard core e