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A stunning look inside the world of violent hate categories with a onetime white supremacist innovator who, shaken by an individual tragedy, came to the realization the mistake of his ways and left behind his dangerous life to become an anti-hate activist. As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other followers of punk rock music, Religious Picciolini was recruited with a now notorious white electric power skinhead innovator and urged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become a specialist in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to put fists. When his coach was imprisoned and sentenced to 11 years in jail, 16-year-old Picciolini overran the man's role as the leader of any infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group. Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and embroiled in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked well to develop an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, starting his own propaganda group that performed at white electric power rallies around the world. But little by little, as he started a family group of his own and employment that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he started to recognize the splits in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss as a result of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini came to the realization too late the full scope of the harm he'd caused. Raw, motivating, and heartbreakingly candid, White North american Youth tells the fascinating report of how so many teenagers lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and the way the criminal sites they forge terrorize and separate our nation.
