Daryl Davis is a black blues musician who has been befriending white supremacists for 30 years, trying to convert them. As his parents tended to his bruises and scrapes at home, they told Davis what racism meant. He told him it was the first time he had heard a black man play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. (Courtesy of Daryl Davis)Amused, Davis told the man that he knew Lewis and that Lewis was influenced by black blues musicians. The man didn’t believe Davis on either count at first, but he did buy him a cranberry juice — Davis doesn’t drink alcohol.

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2017 09:32 UTC