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. …
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Published 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 …
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