Sins of my Father: Growing up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist with Kelvin Pierce

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Kelvin’s father, Dr. William Pierce, was a notorious white supremacist and founded the National Alliance, a prominent hate group. Dr. Pierce wrote the novel The Turner Diaries, which racists widely cite as inspiration for their racist beliefs and actions. Kelvin was subjected to physical and emotional abuse and was taught to believe that Jews and non-whites were responsible for society's ills. Despite the personal abuse he suffered, Kelvin accepted his father's teachings and held onto these racist beliefs as he transitioned into adulthood. It shaped his worldview and interactions with others, even though he didn't openly broadcast these beliefs. Kelvin was able to shed his indoctrination, create the charitable organization "Divine Child Foundation" to help orphans in Georgia, publish his memoir, and live a life of activism and inspiration in fighting racism and extremism. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:10.5	And I've been very excited to meet Kelvin Pierce, my guest for this episode for a really
0:17.3	long time. My dear friend and colleague John Atec said,
0:21.6	Steve, you have to interview Kelvin.
0:24.5	And Kelvin, I understand you've done three episodes
0:28.7	on John Atec's YouTube.
0:31.2	That's a plug for his work.
0:33.8	So I'm just going to start by reading a little something
0:36.9	about you, Kelvin.
0:39.0	First of all, you're a fellow author, and your book is entitled Sins of My Father, Growing Up
0:46.4	with America's Most Dangerous White Supremicist.
0:52.0	So, like so many of my other guests, you were raised in an authoritarian household,
0:59.9	just turns out that your father was this incredibly important figure in the neo-Nazi white
1:07.7	supremacy cult that spawned other cults.
1:13.1	But after you exited at age 18, after incredible amounts of emotional abuse,
1:19.9	physical abuse, and we'll get into that, we're now talking many years later,
1:26.4	and you founded a 501C3 charitable foundation called
1:32.1	the Divine Childs Foundation that administers to often children in the country of Georgia.
1:37.9	Kudos to you.
1:40.0	So I'll just finish with the intro that Kelvin was raised to be a hardcore racist.
1:47.4	His father was Dr. William Pierce, a world-renowned founder and leader of the National
1:53.7	Alliance, one of the most well-known hate groups in the world.
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