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A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville : NPR
Christian Picciolini has his head screwed on straight: this is a good read for lost Alt Righties.
"He says he was a 'lost and lonely' teenager when he was recruited by a white nationalist group. Picciolini immersed himself in the organization's ideology and by age 16, he had emerged as the leader of a group called the Chicago Area Skinheads. He even helped recruit others to the cause. That is until, he says, he had an awakening after the birth of his first child. Picciolini says he renounced ties to the neo-Nazi movement in 1996 when he was 22 years old. He went on to co-found a group called Life After Hate and wrote a book entitled Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead.
Now the reformed white nationalist runs a nonprofit that advocates for peace. "The rhetoric that's coming out of the White House today is so similar to what we preached ... but in a slightly more palatable way." He understands all too well "too well the type of anger that was on display in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend."
Christian Picciolini has his head screwed on straight: this is a good read for lost Alt Righties.
"He says he was a 'lost and lonely' teenager when he was recruited by a white nationalist group. Picciolini immersed himself in the organization's ideology and by age 16, he had emerged as the leader of a group called the Chicago Area Skinheads. He even helped recruit others to the cause. That is until, he says, he had an awakening after the birth of his first child. Picciolini says he renounced ties to the neo-Nazi movement in 1996 when he was 22 years old. He went on to co-found a group called Life After Hate and wrote a book entitled Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead.
Now the reformed white nationalist runs a nonprofit that advocates for peace. "The rhetoric that's coming out of the White House today is so similar to what we preached ... but in a slightly more palatable way." He understands all too well "too well the type of anger that was on display in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend."
