The Cure For Hate
The Cure For Hate
Description
A powerful and deeply personal book about the roots of racism, and what can be done to eradicate it.
The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man who craved attention, acceptance, and approval and the dark place he would go to get it. Tony McAleer found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street violence of the skinhead scene. He then grew deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance. After fifteen years in the movement, it was the outpouring of love he felt at the birth of his children that inspired him to start questioning his hateful beliefs. Thus began the spiritual journey of transformation that enabled him to disengage from the highest levels of the white power movement.
This incisive book breaks commonly held stereotypes and deliversvaluable insights into how regular people are drawn to violent extremism, howthe ideology takes hold, and the best ways to help someone leave hate behind.In his candid and introspective memoir, Tony shares his perspective gleanedfrom over a thousand hours of therapy, group work, and facilitatingchange in others that reveals the deeper psychological causes behind racism. At aperiod in history when instances of racial violence are on the upswing, The Cure for Hate demonstrates that in asociety frighteningly divided by hate and in need of healing, perhapsatonement, forgiveness, and most importantly, radical compassion is the cure.
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