T.J. Leyden Against Hate :: The Vista Online :: University of San Diego’s Student Newspaper
Friday, February 14th, 2003Published on: 2/14/2003 Last Visited: 2/15/2003
With these words, T.J. Leyden, a former neo - Nazi white supremacist activist, took an entire theater of college students into a world they had never witnessed before - a world of hate, bigotry, death, and ultimately, of miracles and hope.
As the students sat spellbound, Leyden began to spin the horrifying tale of his neo - Nazi history, which began at the young age of 15. Following his parents’ divorce, Leyden joined the punk rock movement, a wave of music that prompts anarchy and violence, a biracial group that essentially ran the punk movement. Within a few years, the movement divided into two factions (more…)