wanting to protect himself. and hurricane ernesto is pounding the yucatan peninsula. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. more details are emerging about wade michael page, gunman who police say killed six and injured three at a sikh temple this sunday. including the powerful role music had in his life and the white supremacy culture. genre referred to as hate rock that spouts racist lyrics and used in recruitment efforts. for more insight let me bring in main mink. also back with us from yesterday is pete simi, professor of criminology. he met page ten years ago. thank you so much.
looking for victims. really keeps the drum beating, it is time for action. you think music drives bad behavior? racist behavior? physically. it physically helped us and also the racist music is what keeps the movement young. if it wasn t for the music that keeps getting people into this, you know, you would have that old image of the klan sitting on the front porch with the shotgun. music keeps the newcomers involved. it keeps them wanting to be part of this. it keeps them, again, wanting to be portray what s going on in the music. the music is i mean, i can t stress how much the music is to them. let s get back to pete. give as you bigger sense, great individual story which we relish having on. brings reality to it. frank is giving us that. tell us what the role you see across the country that this hate rock plays in causing bad behavior and tragedy like we just saw on sunday in wisconsin.
was that they were inferior to the white race and that the white race is now being duped and into believing anything by the jewish media. and that the black races and they call in the movement mud race, taking everything from us. so it gave me an outlet when i feared something, i got to be the person putting the fear on the world. that s how i felt being part of the movement committing hate crimes, you name it. and give me a scene where people are playing hate rock and people are enjoying it? what s that like? what s the feeling, sentiment of that room? you know, driving in the car with a bunch of skinheads, listening to music about kicking people s heads in, you know, finding people of other races to destroy and you are sitting in a car with a bunch of friends
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frank, let me ask you about it. just tell your own story. i m not going to push in any direction. how did you get involved with skinheads and hate rock? whole thing? what did you learn? what made do you it? what made you change? okay, well, you know, i got into it when i was about 14. i had a pretty rough home life. he was a fearful kid. when this kind of came into my life, here where people that gave me attention and they talked to me about my home life and the music part came in real quickly because, you know, i can go to so many bible studies to preach hate and go to a couple of meetings here and there but what i needed with me at all times was something to keep backing up my beliefs and the music was definitely that part for me. what role did race play in race part? the race i mean, race became my religion. what i thought of everyone else