http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-02-24/news/17359037_1_prison-gangs-gang-members-street-gangs
"The temporary segregation of prison inmates that the U.S. Supreme Court strongly criticized in a ruling Wednesday had its genesis in the runaway growth of prison gangs during the 1960s and 1970s, experts say.
The gangs, organized along racial lines, have historically been a major source of inmate friction and disorder within the California prison system.
"Taking advantage of tensions already existing between inmates, prison gangs recruit members along racial and ethnic lines," according to a 2003 state Justice Department report on organized crime activity in California. "As the gangs began to grow and acquire more leverage, rivalries began to emerge that led to increased violence in the institutions."
"Two white gangs -- the Aryan Brotherhood, which prison officials say was founded in San Quentin in 1967, and the Nazi Low Riders, an Aryan Brotherhood spin-off that first emerged in the juvenile prisons of the California Youth Authority in the 1970s -- have contributed their own volatility to the ethnic mix inside state prisons.
Like the African American and Latino groups, both white gangs are linked to street crime and have drawn the attention of federal prosecutors."
So when reading this, I kind of get an idea that the only the strong survive. With that being said, by having racial purity, the only way to earn this is to kill off every other racial groups. With the 2 main dominating white groups, the AB and the NLR who is the most dominant white gangs in all 50 states. By being segregated helps them build alliances with those who didnt have the same beliefs of AB and NLR.
Aryan Brotherhood
Also known as the AB, Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist group that was formed in 1967, at San Quentin prison in California. They currently have approximately 15,000 members, in and out of prison. Initially formed for the protection of whites against blacks in prison, the gang gradually moved to becoming a criminal enterprise. The AB are concerned with white-supremacy, and are a ruthless gang who regularly murder those who oppose the system, growing so out of control at times, that even their own ranking members could not consider themselves safe. In prison, they strive to control the sale of drugs, gambling, and “punks,” or male prostitutes. The Aryan Brotherhood has carried out contract killings for the Mexican Mafia, but racist beliefs prevent members from consorting with African Americans, including even taking a cigarette or a candy bar from them. The only way to be a member is to abide by their philosophy of “Blood In – Blood Out.” -Kill somebody to become a member and die to part from it. AB members make up approximately 1% of the prison population nationwide, but are responsible for up to 18% of murders in the federal prison system.
the the racial purity of sense here is that the gang says it was formed to protect white men. To be honest it clearly shows from the information here that it was built to show superiority within the prison walls and to have the ideal of that Whites run the out side world and within the prison.From learning more and more about White nationalism, I have learned that The Aryan Brotherhood was also formed to prevent those who opposed the white nationalist system. With this being said, with being part of this movement, it has to do with Racial Purity in all sorts of ways because one it has to do with trying to prevent racial mixing and to prevent With The Aryan Brotherhood, they were responsible for 18% of the murders in the federal prison system and the reason for this I believe is to prevent racial mixing and to prevent those other than whites to having intercourse and race mixtures.
What do you think about their alliance with the Mexican Mafia? Some would think that their drug trafficking operation is much more important to the gang. Recruiting even leadership from former members such as Michael Thompson, a Native American, says a lot about the gangs main agenda today. Do you think their portrayal in American History X was well done?
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