Daryl Davis

And that freaked him out.

Oh, yeah.

Yes.

So I'm like.

You know, if you start yelling at somebody, they start yelling back.

Right, right, right, right.

Jeff just made a very point that I see a lot of times, okay?

Because when things escalate, okay, when you come in to meet your adversary,

You know this person has a different viewpoint than you do, and you're not going to let them try to change your viewpoint.

You're going to be steeled into what you believe, right?

So your ears are going to be blocking out anything that does not agree with your philosophy, right?

So in order to—and if you start escalating stuff, that blockout becomes even greater, right?

So you want that person's wall to come down, right?

And by not reacting, that person becomes curious.

He's like, where's this guy coming?

What's up with him?

You know, he's not reacting the way most black people would react when I say whatever.

So as the wall comes down, the curiosity on his end rises.

And so now his ears are unblocked and he's ready to hear what I have to say.

But if I'm escalating and telling him my story while I'm escalating about getting thrown rocks, he would probably say, oh, well, it wasn't me that did it.