‘Erasing Hate’: Reformed Skinhead Endures Agony to Remove Hateful Tattoos
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Julie Widner was terrified — afraid her husband would do something reckless, even disfigure himself.
“We had come so far,” she says. “We had left the movement, had created a good family life. We had so much to live for. I just thought there has to be someone out there who will help us.”
After getting married in 2006, the couple, former pillars of the white power movement (she as a member of the National Alliance, he a founder of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads) had worked hard to put their racist past behind them. They had settled down and had a baby; her younger children had embraced him as a father.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — A reformed skinhead, Bryon Widner was desperate to rid himself of the racist tattoos that covered his face — so desperate that he turned to former enemies for help, and was willing to endure months of pain. Second of two parts.
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And yet, the past was ever-present — tattooed in brutish symbols all over his body and face: a blood-soaked razor, swastikas, the letters “HATE” stamped across his knuckles.
Wherever he turned Widner was shunned — on job sites, in stores and restaurants. People saw a menacing thug, not a loving father. He felt like an utter failure.
The couple had scoured the Internet trying to learn how to safely remove the facial tattoos. But extensive facial tattoos are extremely rare, and few doctors have performed such complicated surgery. Besides, they couldn’t afford it. They had little money and no health insurance.
So Widner began investigating homemade recipes, looking at dermal acids and other solutions. He reached the point, he said, where “I was totally prepared to douse my face in acid.”
In desperation, Julie did something that once would have been unimaginable. She reached out to a black man whom white supremacists consider their sworn enemy.
Daryle Lamont Jenkins runs an anti-hate group called One People’s Project based in Philadelphia. The 43-year-old activist is a huge thorn in the side of white supremacists, posting their names and addresses on his website, alerting people to their rallies and organizing counter protests.
In Julie he heard the voice of a woman in trouble.
“It didn’t matter who she had once been or what she had once believed,” he said. “Here was a wife and mother prepared to do anything for her family.”
Jenkins suggested that Widner contact T.J. Leyden, a former neo-Nazi skinhead Marine who had famously left the movement in 1996, and has promoted tolerance ever since. More than anyone else, Leyden understood the revulsion and self-condemnation that Widner was going through. And the danger.
“Hide in plain sight,” he advised. “Lean on those you trust.”
Most importantly, Leyden told him to call the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“If anyone can help,” he said, “it’s those guys.”
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When Widner called, says Joseph Roy, “it was like the Osama Bin Laden of the movement calling in.”
Roy is chief investigator of hate and extreme groups for the SPLC. The nonprofit civil rights organization, based in Montgomery, Ala., tracks hate groups, militias and extreme organizations. Aggressive at bringing lawsuits, it has successfully shut down leading white power groups, bankrupted their leaders and won multimillion dollar awards for victims.
The SPLC hears regularly from people who say they are trying to leave hate and extreme groups. Some are fakes. Some are trying to spread false intelligence. Many are in crisis, and return to the group when the crisis passes.
“Very rarely have we met a reformed racist skinhead,” says Roy.
Over the years, Roy had dubbed Widner the “pit bull” of skinheads. “No one was more aggressive, more confrontational, more notorious,” Roy said.
And yet, over several weeks of conversations with Bryon and Julie, he became convinced. There was something different about this couple — a sincerity, a raw determination to put the past behind them and to seek some sort of redemption.
In March 2007 Roy and an assistant flew to Michigan. Roy still marvels at the memory of the guy with the freakish face walking out to greet them, wearing a “World’s Greatest Dad” sweat shirt, holding his baby boy in one arm while a little girl clung to his other one.
Over the next few days they got to see the suffering Bryon was going through. They listened in horror when he told them he was considering using acid on his face. “He was in a bad place,” Roy said. “This was a guy who was fighting for his life.”
Widner shared information about the structure of various skinhead groups, the different forms of probation in some gangs, the hierarchy of others. He agreed to speak at the SPLC’s annual Skinhead Intelligence Network conference, which draws police from all over the country.
For his part, Roy promised to ask his organization to do something it had never done before — search for a donor to pay for Widner’s tattoos to be surgically removed. Widner didn’t hold out much hope. But for now, he agreed not to experiment with acid.
Financially and emotionally, things were getting tougher. Widner found part-time work shoveling snow and odd handyman jobs, but barely enough to support a family. The vicious postings on the Internet continued. Pig manure was dumped on their cars. There were hang-up calls in the middle of the night. Anonymous callers left threatening messages: “You will die.” Several times, tipped off by sympathetic friends that a crew was on the way to “take care” of them, the family fled to a hotel.
So when Roy called a couple of months later saying a donor was willing to pay for the surgery, Widner could hardly believe it. The donor, a longtime supporter of the SPLC had been moved by Widner’s story — and shocked by photographs of his face.
“For him to have any chance in life and do good,” she said, “I knew those tattoos had to come off.”
She agreed to fund the surgeries — at a cost of approximately $35,000 — on several conditions. She wanted to remain anonymous. She wanted assurances that Bryon would get his GED, would go into counseling and would pursue either a college education or a trade.
It was easy to agree. These were all things Widner wanted to do.
It would take up to a year to find the right doctors and schedule the operations. Meanwhile, it was clear the family had to leave Michigan. The white power Web forums were wild with chatter about the race traitor couple and their family. Through local police, the FBI warned that they were in danger.
In the spring of 2008 they packed their belongings and moved to Tennessee, near Julie’s father. They rented a three-bedroom house in the country, joined a church. Helped by his father-in-law and his pastor, Widner found some work. The threats subsided.
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Dr. Bruce Shack, who chairs the Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, vividly remembers the first time he met Widner. After seeing photographs and talking to the SPLC, he had agreed to do the surgery. But he was totally unprepared for Widner’s face.
“This wasn’t just a few tattoos,” he said. “This was an entire canvas.”
It was June 2009 and the couple had driven to Vanderbilt to meet him. Shack’s genial manner immediately put them at ease.
“He didn’t just see the tattoos,” Widner says. “He saw me as a real human being.”
Shack also saw one of the biggest challenges of his career.
Shack showed Widner the laser — which looks like a long, fat pen — that would trace the exact outline of the tattoos as it burned them off his face. He explained how it would deliver short bursts of energy, different amounts depending on the color and depth of the tattoo. It would take many sessions for the ink to fade. And it would be painful, far more painful than getting the tattoos in the first place.
“You are going to feel like you have the worst sunburn in the world, your face will swell up like a prizefighter, but it will eventually heal,” Shack told Widner. “This is not going to be any fun. But if you are willing to do it, I’m willing to help.”
Widner didn’t hesitate. “I have to do it,” he said, as Julie held his hand. “I am never going to live a normal life unless I do.”
On June 22, 2009, Widner lay on an operating table, his mind spinning with anxiety and hope. A nurse dabbed numbing gel all over his face. Shack towered over him in protective goggles and injected a local anesthetic. Then he started jabbing Widner’s skin, the laser making a staccato rat-tat-tat sound as it burned through his flesh.
Widner had never felt such pain. Not all the times he had suffered black eyes and lost teeth in bar brawls, not the time in jail when guards — for fun — locked him up with a group of black inmates in order to see him taken down. His face swelled up in a burning rage, his eyes were black and puffy, his hands looked like blistered boxing gloves. He had never felt so helpless or so miserable.
“I was real whiny during that time,” he says.
“He was real brave,” says Julie.
After a couple of sessions, Shack decided that Widner was in too much pain: The only way to continue was to put him under general anesthetic for every operation. It was also clear that the removal was going to take far longer than the seven or eight sessions he had originally anticipated.
They developed a routine. Every few weeks, Widner would spend about an hour and a half in surgery and another hour in recovery, while Julie would fuss and fret and try to summon the strength to hide her fears and smile at the bruised, battered husband she drove home. It would often take days for the burns and oozing blisters to subside.
Shack and his team marveled at Widner’s determination and endurance. The Widners marveled at the team’s level of commitment and care. Even nurses who were initially intimidated by Widner’s looks found themselves growing fond of the stubborn former skinhead and his young family.
Slowly — far more slowly than Widner had hoped — the tattoos began to fade. In all he underwent 25 surgeries over the course of 16 months, on his face, neck and hands.
On Oct. 22, 2010, the day of the final operation, Shack hugged Julie and shook hands with Bryon. Removing the tattoos, he said, had been one of his greatest honors as a surgeon. But a greater privilege was getting to know them.
“Anyone who is prepared to put himself through this is bound to do something good with his life,” Shack said.
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In a comfortable yard in a tidy suburban subdivision, Bryon and Julie Widner smoke Marlboros and sip energy drinks as they contemplate the newest chapter in their lives. Only a few trusted friends and family members know where they live — they agreed to be interviewed on condition that the location of their new home not be disclosed.
This time, they moved because they had deliberately exposed themselves to danger. After much consideration, the couple had agreed to allow an MSNBC film crew to follow Widner through his surgeries. The cameras didn’t spare the details, capturing Widner writhing and moaning in agony. Widner didn’t care. If anything he felt that he deserved the pain and the public humiliation as a kind of penance for all the hurt he had caused over the years.
But there was a deeper motivation for going public with his story. There was a chance that some angry young teenager on the verge of becoming a skinhead would see Widner’s suffering and think twice.
Maybe he would realize that, as Widner says now, “I wasn’t on any great mission for the white race. I was just a thug.”
They moved the day after the documentary — “Erasing Hate” — aired in June.
Widner’s arms and torso are still extensively tattooed. He is in the process of inking over the “political” ones, like the Nazi lightning bolts. His face is clean and scar free, and he has a shock of thick black hair. With his thin glasses and studious expression, he looks nerdy, Julie jokes.
His neck and hands have suffered some pigment damage, he gets frequent migraine headaches and he has to stay out of the sun. But, he says, “it’s a small price to pay for being human again.”
The move took a financial toll. Julie had to pawn her wedding ring to buy groceries and pay the rent. But Widner has found some work — construction and tattoo jobs. He got his GED and they both plan to start courses at the local community college.
They say they feel safe. Several police officers and firefighters live nearby; the FBI has visited and the local police know their story.
Still they can’t help but worry. It’s one thing getting out of the white power movement as others have done, fading into obscurity. It’s another to publicly denounce the violent world they once inhabited.
Bryon has constant nightmares about what injuries he might have inflicted — injuries he can only imagine because so often he was in a drunken stupor when he beat someone up. Did he blind someone? Did he paralyze someone? He doesn’t know.
But there are moments of grace. After a recent screening of the documentary in California, a black woman embraced Widner in tears. “I forgive you,” she cried.
They’ve thrown out everything to do with their racist past, including photographs of Widner and his crew posing at Nordic fests and of the white power conferences Julie used to attend. And yet there are reminders all around, and not just the remaining tattoos. Tyrson’s name — inspired by the Norse god of justice, Tyr — troubles them for its connection to the racist brand of Odinism his father practiced with the Vinlanders. But how do they ask a 4-year-old to change his name to Eddie?
The child tugs at his daddy’s Spiderman T-shirt, begging him to come play video games. “OK, buddy,” Widner says. “Let’s go shoot a few bad guys.” With that, the man who once brandished his hate like a badge of honor scoops up his son and turns on his Xbox.
Widner plays the role of Captain America. The bad guys are Nazis.
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Helen O’Neill, a New York-based national writer for The Associated Press, can be reached at features(at)ap.org.
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Comments (157)
Apple Bite
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:07amIt’s never too late…..
Report Post »Can’t say that enough to Liberals however. They think the fun is just beginning. News flash Liberals: One day you‘re going to wake up and realize you’ve been lied to all this time. That the very thing you’re promoting, has brought more destruction and agony to so many that didn’t deserve to endure it, including your own families. I hope you find your way back in time.
JokerWatcher
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:27am“It’s never too late…..
Report Post »Can’t say that enough to Liberals however.”
Surgery, Lasers, nothing can erase ‘stupid’. There’s no hope for liberals…
cemerius
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:38amNot when the “kool-aid” continues to be free……
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:04amBefore we step up and heap praise upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, let’s not forget their Clown-in-Chief, Mark Potok and all of the pot-shots he has taken at Rush.
- The 2009 Belleville, IL School Bus attack, when Potok said Rush promoted segregated buses. Would a separatist run Herman Cain for President ads on his show?
- In 2011, tying Jared Loughner to the right
- Repeatedly being on the wrong side of illegal immigration issues
- His Metapedia page calls him “Jewish” (that would be American Liberal Jew and not anyone accused of supporting Israel) and says his occupation is “propagandist”.
I could go on and on. Not a friend of yours or mine or Glenn’s or GBTV. While this story is heartwarming and every clock is right twice a day, let’s not get all warm and fuzzy for SPLC. Let’s just be glad this numbskull and wife finally got his head on straight. That means there’s hope for their kids.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:42amThe SPLC should not be trusted any more than the hate organizations this guy was affiliated with.
This is a case of both sides of the same coin rubbing up against each other. That coin being the pathway to socialism.
Report Post »bertr
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:27pmI‘m pretty sure they’ve scrubbed it from thier site by now completely, but i remember the SPLC calling the tea party a hate group comparable to neo-nazi’s
Report Post »FugMan
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:25amGeez. Give the guy a break. He screwed up and realizes it. He is trying to redeem himself. As Christians we are taught to forgive.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:52amAmen
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:31amDitto
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:11amAgreed. It takes a big man to say that he was wrong. It takes an even bigger man to endure what he has had to endure. This was on his face. It hurts enough on fatty protected areas. I don’t have tattoos but I know plenty of good people that do. I don’t really care if they remove them or not. If I met this man and he told me his heart had changed then the outward appearance wouldn’t bother me. It apparently does bother him so God bless his courage in having them removed.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:02amThanks Blaze! I love stories of repentance and happy endings. May God help them on their journey and prosper them as they go. I love repentant ones who actually have to fight for their freedom and repentance. I love that guy……………….
Report Post »IndyNWguy
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:59amOops! Looks like one of this guy’s butt-hurt buddies has been surfing The Blaze!
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:40amI’m glad he finally woke up and got his life together! I hope he gives back to the community!
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:26amThis has to be the longest article of all time on TheBlaze. I wonder if this guy can preach his erasing hate to all those blacks that attack whites at the Wisconsin State Fair or in Philadelphia this past summer. Oh that’s right, that’s not considered hate by Bolsheviks. Never mind.
Report Post »Doug in Seattle
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:19amSo this fool woke up out of a drunken haze and found a tattooed idiot staring back from the mirror.
For most drunks all that is required is to clean up. This one had a few more things to do.
I wish him well, but don’t feel especially sorry for him.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:49amI don’t feel sorry for him either. I’m proud of him. It takes far more strength to face yourself and what you’ve done, and fully repent than it does not to sin in the first place. And that in itself is really hard for everybody! I don’t care what you say!
God bless this man and his family. Pray they find a great church to go to!
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:29amWell it must be nice living there in Superior Land. Bet you have no friends and eat your microwaved dinner all alone. Who would want to be around you?
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:16amGood for him and his family and hopefully his story will not only discourage kids from that ‘whie supremacy thug life’ but also from covering their precious bodies from head to hole with tat‘s they’ll almost ALWAYS regret after 21 unless service members or rock stars. They‘re the only ones who ’get away with them’ in my world.
One or two discreetly placed, if that’s your thing whatever, but to deface your own body like that is nearly unforgivable, as many who don’t intentionally scar themselves suffer skin cancer and such doing NOTHING to themselves to deserve such a fate.
With them removed he almost looks like the guy who played ‘Elvis’ the catfish farm trucker in the movie The Firm ;)
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:07amThe problem with your “one or two discreetly placed” idea of appropriate tattoos is so subjective. Either tattoos are bad or they are good or they are neutral. I don’t see how you can quantify them.
Report Post »William Hemenway
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:04amI just don’t believe in patting someone on the back for what he should have been doing all along it is not a story. All of us have obstacles in our life that were not self imposed like his were and we worked through them and become better people at least you should. Great the guy who lived most of his life hating people openly with tattoos on his face can now hide his hate and blend in. Doing the right thing with your life is what we are supposed to do people
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:52amHave you read the Parable of the Lost Son?
Report Post »IndyNWguy
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:53amI hope those in your life are more forgiving of your misdeeds than you are of this guy’s.
In case you were unaware – genuine redemption is pretty cool.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:57amIt’s obvious you have more hate and unforgiveness in you then this man.
This guy was indoctrinated into the white supremacist life by his father. He has overcome more than a punk like you will ever allow in your life, I bet.
The “Lord’s Prayer” says, “forgive us our debts as we for give our debtors”. Better words to live by than the drivel you just posted………………..
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:08amYou ever figure the pain and hardship his victims have felt, and im sure there are many, with his gang.
Report Post »And i try to be a good christian , but i have a problem forgiving people who know what their doing as they do it.
Maybe i should read the bible better.
deeberj
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:10amCaliforniasodbuster – it is not your job to forgive every single person that has done anything wrong. It is God’s job, and also the people that person hurt. So you don’t have to forgive this tattooed man and neither do I, because he did nothing to us. That’s the Bible. Forgive us our debts “as we forgive our debtors”, not “as we forgive every single debtor that exists”.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:51pm@DEEBERJ
Report Post »Thank You, i appreciate what you said.
Forward
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:13pmPerhaps you should read the whole article. This is a family that has, at great personal risk, taken steps to renounce not only their personal mistakes but those of a movement which currently seeks to cause them great personal harm if not death. While I do not know those of you who are suggesting that there is no special love for this family, I feel safe in assuming that very few of you have put yourself in deadly danger through your actions.
If you can’t celebrate their courage, perhaps you can celebrate their conversion. Certainly God does and He wants us to as well.
I try desperately not to judge others. I do not always succeed. “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” is an important teaching from the Bible. We all fail at this but it is important to look for the good in a situation and certainly this is one where the good is just plain as day.
You should not celebrate their prior lives but their rebirth seems amazing and it is the new beings that they are that are to be celebrated. The danger they court is real but they have done so and told their story to help others. I hope that I can do as well in my life.
Report Post »disagreeableness
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:39amI was a punk when I was a kid, long before racism began to develop in in lock step with skin head culture (or lack there of…). I would never have been willing to associate myself with anything that could even imply that that was who I was, hell my favorite band (when I was a kid) was headed by a black kid. I’ve had skins that worked for me, most of them worked there ass’s off, but displayed the characteristics you’d expect from any young man that belonged to a gang; no male role model, above average intelligence, chemical or alcohol addiction, lack of respect for (genuine) authority, self hatred and etc. These people are no less tragic than the inner city black gang members, it’s the same damn thing. Such a waste, for everyone.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:34amWhen are your hate tattoos coming off knighttemplar?
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:27amI have reported you for your racist reamrks in the last sentence. The point of the story has evidently sailed right past the understanding redemption part of your brain.
Report Post »GumRock
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:18amFist Bump’s Bryon .
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:14amWow, the illustrated racist man had an epiphany, why do people shudder when they look at me?
Report Post »When will i ever find a real job?
Why do my children ask me what’s wrong with my face?
Wonder what his hag looks like?
Seriously, i am glad for him, and hope he changed for the better.
abbygirl1994
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:14amI wish you well Byron and Julie!
Report Post »AngelAuthor
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:07amWhat an awesome story and testimony for this man and his wife!
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:56amTHIS STORY BROUGHT ME TO TEARS.
Until I realized I had fallen asleep and was only dreaming that I was crying.
Yawn. Goodnight.
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:04amha, you’re pretty damn funny.
WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:50amAhh man you got a “haha” out loud out of me. Well played. Good story though.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:55amSCOTT….. while I think this is great that this man had help. The source of help couldn’t have been much worse. This is almost like getting money from Soros or Tides. Please research the Southern Poverty Law Center….. they’re horrible….. horrible people. Fighting to take away property rights from ranchers and others along the border…. They’re like a freaking ACLU….. what in the h3ll is going on with this site promoting one liberal cause after another????? I‘m starting to understand why I shut the show off on Friday’s when I see you’re hosting.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:51amIt takes a real man to admit when he is wrong the best part of this story is his kids have a chance to grow up with out hate .This is the only time i will likely say anything nice about a soros funded group but the southern poverty law center helped him that was good of them.Well they searched for a donor that was a sort of help .
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:01amThis is a true story of redemption and transformation that shows anyone and everyone, if they truly give up the past and seek to make the changes, is able to make a new beginning…often not easily or without cost, yet it can be done.
Best wishes to him and his family for the future.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:43am-Doesn’t like people of color.
Report Post »-Shows his “white pride” by covering his white skin in tattoos.
What?
Servant Of YHVH
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:00am@pontiac
“-Doesn’t like people of color.
-Shows his “white pride” by covering his white skin in tattoos.
What?”
??? Why the “what?”?
@blacktooth, kentuckykate and divineliberty
AMEN
@lukerw
“The will have to retake… his Mug Shots!”
I guess just like all liberals that don’t believe that people, even someone like him can change. You liberals always believe that liberal wackos don’t ever quit being liberals and change to someone good! Well, I would say that he did and you will just have to get over it.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:14amThe “what” as in why the hell would you be proud to be white and at the same time hate your skin enough to cover it in ink. I’m pointing out the “IRONY”.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:47amI got the irony. And even more ironic, they weren’t colored tatoos, but all black (or is that a dark blue?) my point is, no greens, reds, yellows, etc. I have one very colorful tatoo on my hip (no one knows unless I tell them and very few get shown).
I think it’s great that he endured such pain to erase the hatred. It had to be therapeutic for him. Liberals can change. I’m proof. I was a bra-burning women’s libber when I was 17. Then I joined the Navy. Now I’m about as conservative as they come. I think liberals are just people who haven’t grown up and faced reality yet.
Report Post »xxVICTORIAxx
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:17ami commend this man. how brave to stand up for what he truly believes in anf to finaly feel like he has his own voice to choose for himself. it a shame what gangs do to people and then what they will do to their family if they dont comply with the rules, yet they are supposed to be “brothers”, it is sick and twisted and for him to realize that it isnt a brother hood and he isn’t making any difference in anyones life by his “movement” and his “message” and he wants to be a productive member of society and a father not just a donor.
there is something to be said about someone who will stand up for themselves and for the right then and then not be afraid to stare bad and fear straight in the face like he did with removing his tats and going public with his story.
no one says there is something wrong with being proud of where one comes from, i’m proud of where i come from and where my family comes from but whats wrong is when one race wants to eliminate another when everyone comes in the world the same way and goes out of world the same way.
“there is only one kind of race, the human race and then after comes color”
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:39amThink real hard before you get tattooed.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:44amExactly …
Report Post »kentuckykate
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:38amRedemption…painful but so sweet.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:43amNicely put!
Report Post »Divineliberty
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:33amGood for him…lets just hope he reforms rest of his skin head racist buddys
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:19amAgreed. I will say that most friends of mine that have gotten tat’s over the years have grown up to resent them after having them for several years. Think it over.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:28amThe will have to retake… his Mug Shots!
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