i don t debate, i don t tell them that they re wrong, because i know that that just pushes them further away. i did a lot of listening to what i call potholes, the thing that happened in his life that, you know, at 14 years old, detoured him down that path, just like i had been detoured at 14 years old. and then i started to fill those potholes in, trying to build his resilience. and i showed him compassion when, you know, he s a man who wasn t getting a lot of compassion from anybody, rightfully so, he didn t deserve it for the hate that he was putting out into the world. but i used that as an opportunity to really let him pour out his soul to me. when he did that, i started to see there really was a broken child inside that 45-year-old man. what does change look like to somebody like that, how old were you when you changed your outlook? we feel like we re grown, developed, fully-baked beings, then you re going to set someone on a course that s not sort of neutral, i guess if you li
outlook? how does that happen? we re grown developed fully baked beings and set someone not just on a course that s neutral, if you live in a world of hate, neutral isn t a great place to be after that. i was 14 years old when i was recruited in 1987. i was out after eight years in 1996 when i was 23 years old and it was really the compassion that people showed me, people that i least deserved it from. people who were african american, jewish, gay, who saw in me something else. they weren t interested in pushing me away for murder and wanted to explore me under the armor. it was compassion at a time i least deserved really was the most powerful thing. for somebody like jeff scoop who has been in this movement since he was 14 years old and in his 45s now, he s never held a job outside of the movement and had interactions with other people outside of comrades he had.
if you live in a world of hate, neutral isn t a great place to be after that. i was 14 years old when i was recruited in 1987. i was out after eight years in 1996 when i was 23 years old and it was really the compassion that people showed me, people that i least deserved it from. people who were african american, jewish, gay, who saw in me something else. they weren t interested in pushing me away for murder and wanted to explore me under the armor. it was compassion at a time i least deserved really was the most powerful thing. for somebody like jeff scoop who has been in this movement since he was 14 years old and in his 45s n 45s now, he s never held a job outside of the move tment and h interactions with other people outside of comrades he had. for him, it s going to be a difficult road and because when you take somebody out of a sense of identity, community and