Daryl Davis thrives on diving deep into conversations with those devoted to hate and offering them a chance to change their perspective about people of color.
Daryl Davis and Itay Pearl at the Be'er Sheva Fringe Theater, November 7th, 2017– When Daryl Davis was 10 years old, he was the only Black member of his Cub Scout troop walking in a march in a Boston suburb. The group of scouts was marching from Lexington to Concord to commemorate the ride of Paul Revere. It was 1968.
“My first thought was, ‘Oh, you know, those few people over there that are doing this, you know, must not like the scouts.’ That’s how naive I was,” Davis said. “It wasn’t until my den mother, my cub Master, my troop leader all came running and covered me with their own bodies and quickly escorted me out of the danger that I realized I was the only scout getting this special protection.
“Racism did not exist in my sphere overseas. My classmates were from Japan, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Italy, Australia. Anybody who had an embassy where we were stationed, all their kids went to the same school,” he said. “So they may not look like me, maybe they don’t speak as I do or worship as I do, but we all got along.”Now that he is older, Davis’ mission is to make the United States more like his classrooms overseas.
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