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White Gangs

"Hate is always a common analogy," says a tattooed skinhead and Texas Mafia member who did time in the vicious Texas State system in the 80's. He explains how "there’s very few similarities between the states and the feds." Claiming that there’s way more gangs in the state. He continues, "In Texas in the 80's there was over 300 body bags a year. Hate wasn't even really acknowledged. It was more about the color you wore, the ink on your body, or your patch."

He names the white gangs that operate behind bars, "The Aryan Brotherhood or the Brand as they're called in the feds. The Dirty White Boys or DWB's for short. The Aryan Circle (AC's), White Knights, and Texas Mafia (TM's)" He explains how there's "a bleed over of all those gangs in the feds now," but that the "originals are dinosaurs." And most likely locked down 23 hours a day at ADX Florence, the BOP's supermax penitentiary that houses the likes of the Unabomber.

But even with the restricted mail and phone monitoring these dinosaurs are still calling the shots from their prison cells as a case out of USP Leavenworth involving the AB's in the mid 90's illustrated. Back then the feds started a program where they had some of the AB's on ice. They were on 24 hour lockdown and the only way they were let out of the program was if they debriefed with the feds and told the BOP of their gang affiliations.

As dudes filtered back into the system the AB's started putting hits out on their own members. Anybody who debriefed was marked. "Weeding out their own trash," says the Texas Mafia member. "Cleansing their ranks."

And in prison race on race killings are common. The Texas Department of Corrections has a video tape of a murder that happened in 1984 that they still use to this day for guard training purposes. AB Virgil Barfield killed Calvin Massey an affiliated TM. A straight white on white killing. The AB butchered the affiliated TM stabbing him 78 times, then cut his head off, stood up and smiled at the camera that was recording the murder. "Shit like that goes on all the time, " says the Texas Mafia member. "It has nothing to do with color, but with affiliation."

Most of the white gangs are racist skinheads who favor Nazi imagery and their affiliations vary. The Hammerskins are an offshoot of the AB's but they are more extreme in their political and social beliefs. They consider Hitler a hero to the white race and say things like "all niggers should die." And refer to blacks as sub-humans. The Brand, another AB shoot off, is a more federal prison thing. They are represented by a clover leaf tattoo. The DWB's are ranked by state and sport a tattoo of their home state. They also have a splinter group, Bruden Waffen "88" that wearts a fist double lightning bolt tattoo. They are the DWB's elite hit squad .

All of these groups are highly into the Nazi swastika and lightning bolt thing with the spider webs and white pride tattooed on the backs of their arms. They look at Hitler like a demigod. Like, "Yeah, he was doing the right thing." They are equal opportunity haters, lumping "Jews, niggers, spies, and race-mixers" in the same category.

If it's not white it’s not right with them.

Mostly though they just exploit their own people, other whites. And a lot of them are dope fiends. But they will kill in a minute if provoked. "Most of these dudes got so much fucking time, they got 175 years. There is no deterrent when somebody has over a century worth of time." Says the TM member. And he concludes with, "These are racist gangs but they hate their own race just as much, just another culture of it."

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/prison-gangs-and-the-analogy

So reading this, it comes to mind on somethings that came up in class such as the exploitation of their own white people. Wit h this is sucks to think that whtie folks say that others are inferior and whites are superior but when it comes to people who are of the same race, white gangs that affiliate themselves with white nationalism, it becomes survival of the fittest.  Also something interesting about this blog that has come up in class material and discussions is the fact that all these white gangs are of racist motives and it sucks to think that but its because they are learned behavior and with the help of white nationalists, it becomes even more insteeled in white folks heads what is real and what is not real.

I think the main thing i took out of this that has too do with my blog is the fact that it talks about white gangs in prison and the fact that there is race on race crimes. They say it has nothing to do with your skin color within the prison walls but of who you affiliate yourself with. In result to this, this has affects on my vision of what I have been researching and learning about white nationalisms and white gangs that have evolved in today's society.

Lit Review-Recovering Skinhead

"Frank Meeink once fit the American neo-Nazi archetype perfectly: he had the convictions, the clothes, the swastika tattoo, and the knack for perpetrating violence that have made this underground culture infamous. Surprisingly, today he's an anti-racism advocate, touring speaker, and author of the insightful Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead.

The phrasing of this title may lead some readers to instantly connect Meeink's story with accounts of substance abuse and addiction, and they would be right to do so; the influence of drugs and alcohol on this narrative is paramount. With the guidance of his co-author, Dr. Jody M. Roy (an academic whose research on hate-motivated violence led her to his door), Meeink explores step four of his recovery: he takes an inventory of everything from his childhood experiences through the final resolution of his journey to become an active parent of his own children.

The book is ruthlessly honest, in part because of Meeink's personal stake in finding the truth; there is something brutal and encouraging about the depth and detail to which he is willing to expose his life to readers' examination. He never sounds preachy or self-pitying, but instead casts aside his ego to explore the damage he caused, with the hope of helping others prevent similar catastrophes.

Backed by vigorous academic research into the facts of the story, including the use of official records and interviews with past associates, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is an important resource. The episodes of violence described herein, whether perpetrated by or on Meeink (and his story is rife with examples of both), are vivid and alarming. Readers gain insight into the thoughts and emotions experienced by a violent offender during the commission of his crimes in a raw, unromantic form. There is nothing to admire in these acts, and Meeink knows it; he describes his teen years like a doctor that needs to examine each cell in a cancer before destroying it.

Readers will likely develop admiration for Meeink, however, because of the reconciliation he has found through anti-hate advocacy; and more specifically, because of his ability to consciously choose and live a life based on love instead.

Anyone wishing to better understand their own role in the struggle for peaceful cohabitation between individuals and groups will benefit from reading this book. Through it, Meeink lays bare the ways he was made vulnerable to the teachings of racial division and white supremacy, the ways he recruited others to his young army, and the conditions under which he began to disown it all."

• With this book, it kind of gives an image of my topic but the only reason why I said it doesn't totally fit my image of white nationalist and white gang members who are affiliated with white nationalist is the fact that Frank felt like he didnt belong and that he joined because he didn't want to be belittled anymore by anyone. My visions on white nationalist and white gang members is the fact that white folks who are part of these movements are well educated and have been part of the group for a long time.
• The book though did give me an idea. It gave me an idea that his perspective challenges what i have reearched and have looked into when it comes to white gangs. I believe that what happened to Frank is one in a million who makes it out of the movement and also who makes it out of prison. 
• In result of this,the bookd depicts my view of what it is like for white nationlist who join a movement and reacts to what happens in prison, but its not until frank changes his mind about what his belief is. 

Extreme vs. Mainstream

With my topic of white gangs in the prison walls, it is hard to understand or even see what is the difference between the extreme and the mainstream. The reason is for being the fact that what is seen from the outside of the acts that Aryan brotherhood or the NNLR does, from the outside looking in, it is seen as being extreme but from the inside's view it is seen as being what they believe is the mainstream lifestyle. With this being said, I cant understand where the 2 difference would be with my topic.Mainstream and Extreme have a huge connections when focusing on white prison gangs and White nationalist because of what the white folks are representing or even from what acts that they distribute to others of the same belief. White nationalist and white gangs are trying to portray their reasoning's for their action being because of the mainstream, but in reality its the extreme things that they do that gets portrayed as being the mainstream from crimes, inequality reflections, to murders. in result of this,I have learned from class matertials, discussion but even more from American History X, it is the reason of  white nationalist purpose and actions that they extreme things they do become the mainstream in our today's society.

Are gangs just used as a metaphor for ethnic groups?

one day on campus there was this Young Republican group that was on campus that put up a gate that represented illegal immigrants and that we should prevent them from coming over into the United States. Well I believe this is something that comes up within my topic of white gangs within the Prison walls. The purpose of segregation I believe within the prison walls is not to try and prevent war, but to build trust within a certain racial group to prevent others from taking over. With this being said, the young republicans would be lets say, the Aryan Brotherhood, and they are trying to prevent illegal immigrants or like the M13 or even the mafia within their territory. Form reading The recovering skin head and watching American History X, it portrays the Young Republican who could be part of the Skin heads or whatever as being uneducated or even blind by the surroundings of only perspective. Not trying to shoot down the Young Republicans or anything, but from the incident that happened last year with putting up the gate within our local community, not only did that in steel in our heads whats the purpose of the Young Republicans, but also it expands on our beliefs and what they represent.