#Kkk thumbsup serial

Since that car ride 30 years ago, Daryl Davis has gone on to convince dozens of people to leave the Ku Klux Klan.

But within five months, this guy quit the Ku Klux Klan. And then he, a moment later, he changed the subject. And I could tell that the gears in his head were spinning super fast, probably burning a hole in there.

#Kkk thumbsup serial

I rattled off 'Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler.'Īnd I said, 'Son, you are a serial killer.' And he said, 'Daryl, I've never killed anybody.' I said, 'Your gene is latent hasn't come out yet.' He said, 'Well, that's stupid.' And I said, 'Well, duh, it is stupid.' And he got very, very quiet. Name me three Black serial killers.' He thought about it. It's not true,' I said to him, I said, 'White people have a gene within them that make them serial killers.' And he said, 'Why would you say that?' I said, 'Well, face it. Rather than attack and just say, 'It's not true. And he's sitting next to me with all smug and secure like, 'You see? You have nothing to say.' And I thought about it for a moment. He's driving in his car with a member of the Ku Klux Klan. How do you explain that?' This man did not hesitate. I have never done a drive-by or a carjacking. And I said, 'Look, I'm as Black as anybody you've ever seen. And he made the mention that Black people are born with a gene that makes them violent. I'm driving, and this Klansman was sitting in my passenger seat, and we got on the topic of crime.