No, this is not the beginning of the joke, but rather something more amazing. The black man in question is Daryl Davies, a well-known jazz musician.
Most people in this day and age probably would have turned and ran right out of that good ol’ boy’s bar, but not Davis. He stayed and talked with the Klansman for a long time. “At first, I thought ‘why the hell am I sitting with him?’ but we struck up a friendship and it was music that brought us together,” he says.
That friendship would lead Davis on a path almost unimaginable to most folks. Today, Davis is not only a musician, he is a person who befriends KKK members and, as a result, collects the robes and hoods of Klansmen who choose to leave the organization because of their friendship with him.
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“When two enemies are talking, they’re not fighting.”
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The amazing story of a black jazz musician who befriends then defrocks KKK members http://t.co/0S3ddkNJ72
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@cblatts NPR’s @SnapJudgement did a great story on Daryl Davies in Nov 2014 http://t.co/GiukQOIlZv
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fascinating article on 2014 Common Ground awardee. RT @cblatts “A KKK member walks up to a black man in a bar” : http://t.co/MmQo3z1dv4
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