Archive for April, 2003

Anderson Independent Mail: News

Thursday, April 3rd, 2003

Published on: 4/3/2003

CLEMSON - T.J. Leyden was a model neo-Nazi skinhead, but the 37-year-old Californian gave up his hate-filled white-supremacist life and now tries to chip away at hate by sharing his story with audiences across the country.

As the featured guest for Clemson University’s One World Week - a series of events designed to promote diversity and tolerance - he used graphic language and images of the propaganda he once spread to chronicle how he embraced and later refuted bigotry.

He also managed to show those in the audience how they, too, are apathetic toward and accepting of hate. (more…)