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Daryl Davis: Reaching out to the KKK

Daryl Davis is a black musician who has spent four decades trying to talk to America’s most diehard racists, the Ku Klux Klan.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Daryl Davis, a black musician who has spent four decades trying to talk to America’s most diehard racists, the Ku Klux Klan. He claims to have forged friendships with white supremacists and opened their minds, but is reaching out to the KKK a distraction from the bigger task of dismantling systemic racism?

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