Daryl Davis: Klan-Destine Relationships · #DNL14 Infiltration
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2018-09-24

KLAN-DESTINE RELATIONSHIPS: How & Why A Black Man Befriended White Supremacists

#DNL14 Infiltration – Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmm_HP_Sb_cSfOoWMFpW5HWdVSzNHejMK

Daryl Davis (R&B and Blues Musician, Author, Actor, USA)
Moderated by Anna Müller (Mobile Counselling Team against Right-wing Extremism /MBR – Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus in Berlin, DE)

African-American R&B and Blues musician Daryl Davis met a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in a bar in 1983. Since then, in his efforts to improve race relations, he has engaged with and befriended members of the KKK – including the Grand Dragon of the KKK in Maryland, Roger Kelly. He has interviewed more than twenty members of the KKK, writing a book (Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan, 1998) and becoming the protagonist of a film about his story (Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America, 2016). Following the question: “Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?", his investigation dealt with misconceptions about black people, which he proved came mostly from intense brainwashing of KKK members during their youth. Davis claims to be responsible for helping to dismantle the KKK in Maryland because things "fell apart" after he began making inroads with its members there. In the context of increased supremacist ideologies and right wing extremism, the Disruption Network Lab invites Davis to speak about racism and his interactions with persons holding racist beliefs.


Disruption Network Lab 
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Berlin, September 7-8, 2018
INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism.
14th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Kim Voss, Rahel Währer

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
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Photo thumbnail: Maria Silvano

September, 2018
17:00 - 18:30. Keynote