The Beginning of the Aryan Brotherhood Gang

• The Aryan Brotherhood got its start on the West Coast in the 1960s.
• The Brotherhood, which has members in prisons throughout the United States, exhibits an intense hatred of Blacks and Jews, and reportedly engages in extortion, drug operations, prostitution, and violence in prisons.
• Many Brotherhood members sport an identifying tattoo consisting of a swastika and the Nazi SS lightening bolt.
• The Brotherhood has ties to Aryan Nations, an Idaho-based paramilitary organization that advocates racial violence and white supremacy.
  
• In April 1997, John Stojetz, an Aryan Brotherhood leader at an Ohio prison, was convicted in the murder of a 17-year-old Black prisoner.
  
• Since 1996, six murders of inmates at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California have been linked to the Aryan Brotherhood. A local prosecutor characterized the situation at the prison as a "reign of terror." More than 50 inmates in the prison's maximum-security unit are members of the group.
  
• In October 1994, Donald Riley, a member of the Brotherhood, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder in Houston of a Black marine who had recently returned from service in Desert Storm.
  
• Aryan Brotherhood member Roy Slider was convicted in August 1993 of felonious assault in an attack on a correction officer, Thomas Davis, in Ohio. Prison officials said Slider went after Davis because he was Black. Davis died as a result of the attack.
  
• In the 1980s, Brotherhood members challenged a Missouri prison's ban on inmates receiving literature from Aryan Nations and similar groups. Nevertheless, the courts upheld the ban.
  
• The Missouri inmates were also members of a "Christian Identity" organization, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. Members of the "Identity" movement claim that Anglo-Saxons not Jews are the Biblical "chosen people," that nonwhites are mud people on the level of animals, and that Jews are the "children of Satan.

"Aryan Brotherhood and the Turner Diaries ." ADL, June 10th 1998. Web. 25 Sep. 2011. <http://www.adl.org/presrele/hatcr_51/3177-51.asp>.)

Aryan Brotherhood-

here is a video about the Aryan  Brotherhood that is a white gang in prisons around the world. 3 white men  who stood together to fight off the growing population of other racial groups. Politics called the gang an "organized prison mafia" and the strategy was to always be "more extreme, more violent, and more terrifying to the people around you". People tried to say that this is driven by white power but by racial hatred and white supremacist literature." through my eyes, this has to do with the dominant of beliefs where Aryan men believe that other racial groups are harming the Aryan lifestyle. In the video it talked about an Aryan man named casper, and he said that ," Im a proud Aryan Man,it would bother me if someone was hurting my race race and was walking my yard, so i would kill them". He didnt see himself as a killer, but he saw him a warrior, which he says that it serves something more than himself. The image of a white bald man who is tattooed up with all types of designs such as nazi signs, white power, or even white pride can give a respectful view of how we can spot out white supremacists or even members of organizations of white power movements.

BLOG'S FOCUS

This blog will be focusing on the Prison/gangs/crime and the fasion/subculture of what we portray white nationalist be part of and how they are perceived as. With not really experiencing what white nationalist people look,feel,act, or even smell like, with this blog it will be focused on through my eyes and how I percieve them not what society or others have constructed them to be like. My guidelines and focus will be towards how white nationalist effects members of gangs and the purpose of the crimes that they act upon. With this being said, by the fashion and subculture being involved this will help myself try to not classify but to distinguish a white nationalist from a non white nationalist or even non-white supremacist.