Racial reconciliation advocate Daryl Davis to speak at LLUH May 6

Daryl Davis, who has helped members of supremacist groups renounce prejudice, will be the featured speaker for an event on Saturday, May 6 at 3 p.m. in Damazo Amphitheater in Centennial Complex.

The event, Race, Religion, Prejudice & Healing, is sponsored by the William Johnsson Center for Understanding World Religions at Loma Linda University School of Religion.

For 40 years, Davis has engaged leaders of White supremacist groups to ask: “How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” That question stemmed from his first encounter with racism as a child when he was pelted with rocks and bottles while marching in a parade. Seeking merely to understand, his civil and patient conversations spawned lasting friendships with many who changed their minds and disavowed hateful beliefs—some even gave Davis their robes and hoods. His work is chronicled in the book Klan-Destine Relationships and the documentary Accidental Courtesy.

The event will also feature two additional participants: Jihad Saafir, assistant professor at Bayan Islamic Graduate School, and Eric Greene, Los Angeles coordinator of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable.

For more information about the event, please call 909-558-7478 or email religion@llu.edu.