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Billy White draws a new design to cover a swastika tattoo on a client at Red Rose Tattoo in Zanesville, Ohio. White was featured in the 2018 short film, Beneath the Ink. / Cy Dodson
I Cover up Racist Tattoos for Free
I Cover up Racist Tattoos for Free
Being part of the process of human growth is better than anything.
THE DRIVER [WHO killed a counter-demonstrator] at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was from Ohio. I kept thinking “This is the picture people are going to have of people from my area.” I offered to do 10 racist [tattoo] cover-ups for free. We had a large outpouring, and we haven’t stopped. We’ve done hundreds in the past six years.
All kinds of people have approached us: reformed prison inmates, Aryan Brotherhood — dudes and women alike — who got prison racial gang tattoos, almost as a means of survival, and now they’re out; ex-Klan members, ex-white nationalists, and militia party members; people with human trafficking tattoos [or] self-harm scars.
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