StrHATE Talk
Welcome
After turning his back completely on the white power movement, Leyden worked for 5 ½ years with the Task Force Against Hate at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He was a featured speaker at the Clinton White House Conference on Hate in Washington D.C. and was a major contributor to California Governor Gray Davis’s report “Governor’s Advisory Panel on Hate Groups.” Leyden has trained members of the Pentagon, FBI, military, law enforcement, educators, and over 800,000 students. He has also worked with the Department of Justice and other District Attorneys offices on hate crimes cases, where all defendants have been found guilty.
TJ has recently done some consulting work for television, movie and documentaries.
In May of 2008, TJ Leyden along with M. Bridget Cook, co-Authored, the book SKINHEAD CONFESSIONS.
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As his own children grew, so did TJ’s uncertainty about the cause he’d endorsed for so long. One fact finally emerged from all the racist propaganda: white power wasn’t about being white; it was simply about having someone to hate. And once he realized this truth, TJ knew his life could never be the same.
SKINHEAD CONFESSIONS takes you on an unbelievable ride through a dark world of violence to one of openness and faith in the future. TJ’s honesty and courage—even in the face of death—have inspired people across America to take action against gang violence and hate crimes.
From his youth, TJ Leyden was taught to fight, to hurt, and to hate. Cunningly
brilliant and deceptively clean-cut, TJ found that life with the Skinheads was exactly what he and they needed. Quickly rising to the top, TJ recruited members for the Skins, and in return he earned a name and a reputation as one of the most powerful men in the White Power Movement. With a skill for fanning the fires of hatred and an ability to elude the law, it seemed that nothing would stop TJ—that is, until he became a father.
As his own children grew, so did TJ’s uncertainty about the cause he’d endorsed for so long. One fact finally emerged from all the racist propaganda: white power wasn’t about being white; it was simply about having someone to hate. And once he realized this truth, TJ knew his life could never be the same.
SKINHEAD CONFESSIONS takes you on an unbelievable ride through a dark world of violence to one of openness and faith in the future. TJ’s honesty and courage—even in the face of death—have inspired people across America to take action against gang violence and hate crimes.
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