Friday, March 29, 2024

Would You Ever Take Serious Action to Help End Racism? (This Black Musician Did, And 200 Klansman Left the Order)

Daryl Davis with former KKK Imperial Wizard Roger Kelly. (Photo: Daryl Davis)

*There’s a changing sign down the hill and around the corner from my house. It is a part of a school, but to make it less easy for you to judge it, I won’t mention its name. Each week I have grown to look forward to the message they ceremoniously place on the board each Monday. The author of the quote is never revealed. They must feel the exact way I do about giving too much information.

Homo sapiens. We’re an interesting bunch.

Anyway, one week the sign read” “If it’s important to you, you will find a way. If it’s not, you will find an excuse.”

I knew the time would come when that quote would be useful to me. It’s now, as I repeat the headline question: Would you ever take serious action to help end racism?

Now I’m no fool. It’s a complicated, multi-leveled, systematic, centuries-old thing, racism. I realize that. But humor me as you put your comments in the box below; because I’m one of those people who actually believes (and have witnessed) change happen one person at a time.

What started this whole thinking process? Daryl Davis. He reminds me of myself: Curious as hell when something so ludicrous presents itself to me. As opposed to just automatically judging it, before I eliminate it entirely and move on, I try to figure out where the hell it came from. What was the logic behind it? Did the person think of what will happen next (obviously Roseanne Barr didn’t)? If so, what did that look like in their mind?

Read and hear more on this (and then weigh in with your comments) at EURThisNthat.

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