How can you hate me when you don't even know me? Throughout my life, I've been looking for an answer to that. Well, who better to ask than someone wh… - Daryl Davis

When I first began interviewing klanmembers, oftentimes they would answer the question but they wouldn't turn around and say 'What do you think?' They felt i was inferior. I had nothing to offer in terms of my opinion. But then over time, as the relationship develops, slowly but surely they began asking me questions. That was the first clue that the tide was turning. 'Oh, all of a sudden my opinion matters? Let's see where this is going.'

[If he feels disconnected from black millenials]: I've met people like him before and have had confrontations with people like him before, not many. A klansman hates a white person who 'sells out', so to speak, more so than they hate a black person. Just like the young boy hated me more than he hated some white guy, because he felt that I've sold out my own race. He was very definate that white people could not change. How is he going to advance any agenda in this country, as diverse as it is?

The lesson learned is: ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check, it will breed destruction.