Daryl Davis
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And so then he tells me that, you know, when he got out and other people were getting out, it turns out they were doing the same thing, you know, watching the game.
Oh, that's so crazy.
But he has a great story telling about the guys from Cameroon.
You're black American, white American, you know.
Well, now, hold on now.
Well, when you experience it from anybody.
Understand something.
Okay, so we have a unique thing here called slavery.
And Jewish people have a unique thing called the Holocaust.
So if you're a white guy and you're walking down the street, sidewalk, and some other white guy is coming up the sidewalk, you don't know him, just a stranger, you know, you guys are going to pass and not say a thing to either one of them.
Just go on by, right?
If it's a black guy, two black guys passing, they're going to go, yo, man, what's up?
They're going to acknowledge one another because they have a shared experience.
They both are descendants of slaves.
They both have experienced racism at some point in their life or whatever.
If two Jews pass who don't know each other, they're going to go shalom because of that commonality, that experience.