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Onetime skinhead evolves into anti-hate activist.(The Orlando Sentinel)

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| July 01, 2002 | Mendelsohn, Aline | COPYRIGHT 2002 McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

T.J. Leyden was watching television with his son when a black character appeared on the screen.

The youngster marched to the set, uttered a racial slur and turned it off.

The boy was 3 years old. Not yet a preschooler and already he hated, a budding white supremacist following the example of his skinhead father.

Leyden smiled. He had taught his son well, no surprise for a man who had married his wife under a swastika in an Aryan wedding. His son slept with a Nazi flag draped above his crib and saluted his father with a "Sieg Heil."

But during the months that followed, the scene replayed in Leyden's head, nagging at his conscience. He ...

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