NPR Morning Edition: White supremacist leader tries to make amends (audio)

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We ask writers, thinkers and political leaders to define how the world is changing. David Greene talks to Christian Picciolini, who spent his adolescence spreading hate as a white supremacist.

Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid and are also former Irish President Mary Robinson are among the voices we've heard over the past few weeks. And today, we will hear from a man who says his role is to listen.

Christian Picciolini spent his adolescence spreading fear and hate as a white supremacist leader. He got out of that life and went on to co-found a peace advocacy group called Life After Hate. I asked him to start at the moment when he entered the skinhead life. And he described being this lost, lonely, angry kid. He told me it all kind of happened by chance.

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