The program benefits the Alabama Holocaust Education Center.
Musician and activist Daryl Davis will participate in a panel discussion on how empathy, dialogue and bridge-building overcome division and foster understanding. The discussion is part of the Alabama Holocaust Education Center's annual "To Life" L'Chaim event on Sept. 10 at the Wright Center on the Samford University campus.Daryl Davis knows about the power of change not just through conversation but also through music.
“I will be with a very good friend of mine who is a former Neo-Nazi and we will be talking about what causes people to get into these movements, how we can get them out of these movements, and how we need to address these things,” Davis told The Times.Davis’ efforts deal with combatting hatred, promoting understanding, and preventing atrocities born out of prejudice and bigotry. He traces his work to an incident that happened when he was 10 years old.
“My male friends, many of them were members of the Cub Scouts, invited me to join, and so I did. This is 1968. I was the only Black Cub Scout in the area, and one time during a parade, some people threw rocks and bottles at me while I was marching with the Scouts it wasn’t everybody. Just four or five people out of a large crowd.”
He continued, “My 10-year-old brain could not process the idea that somebody would want to hurt me for no other reason than the color of my skin, somebody who never even met me before. I felt like my parents had to be deceiving me. The people who were throwing things at me did not look any different to me than my fellow Americans overseas or my little French, Danish, Swedish, or Australian friends. It made no sense.
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