Wed Zoom Meeting - Cure for Hate by Tony McAleer
12 Aug 2020 |
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Rotary Club of Richmond
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Members and friend and visitors join us online
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"Cure for Hate" by Tony McAleer
McAleer is a former white supremacist, author of "The Cure for Hate", inspirational speaker and co-founder of Life After Hate, a nonprofit organization formed in 2011 helping people leave the violent far-right to connect with humanity and lead compassionate lives.
Tony found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street, after spending 15 years with the White Aryan Resistance movement in Vancouver. 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 personal transformation that enabled him to disengage from the highest levels of the white power movement.
His hope now is to inspire people to a place of compassion and forgiveness.
" In that process I learned that to hold the ideology of separation, or racism, you have to have a closed heart. An open heart makes the ideology irrelevant."