Gangs: Soldiers of the White Nationalist Movement?

Racial purity, an ultimate goal of white supremacists, is defined as:

“…the selection, by a government, of what it considers the most physically, intellectually and morally superior people to raise the next generation (selective breeding) and a close alignment of public health with eugenics.”

To simplify the above statement, it’s basically saying that racial purity is the purification of all other races so that the “best” race will prevail and hold power. Obviously, in a white supremacist mindset, this means ridding of all other mudding races so that the whites, the most intelligent, beautiful, powerful and overall superior race, will triumph. Such a movement cannot just come about culturally however, especially with so much miscegenation in today’s society. So of course, in dire times of the racial holy war, or Ra-Ho-Wa as abbreviated by supremacists, the whites need their soldiers.

In an excerpt from a History Channel documentary on the Aryan Brotherhood gang, it discusses much of the gang violence in contribution to winning this so called “war”. Starting out, it speaks of the lack of limitation of brutality that the Aryan Brotherhood will go to in order to be victorious. It’s almost as if gangs are seen as the warriors of the movement.

In America, our soldiers are heroes, protecting our country and it’s freedom on the front line. Majority of citizens, whether in support of a war or not, are appreciative and grateful for their selflessness in protecting our country.  I hope I don’t off in a negative way in comparing the two, because in my eyes there are very distinct differences in an American soldier versus an Aryan warrior, however the mindset of the supporters: the American people versus the white supremacists in this particular case, share some commonality.

If I were to personally step back and think about the support I have for American soldiers, much of that support is because I feel as though I couldn’t do it myself. Our soldiers hold jobs that not everyone can. A connection to such mentality may be that some white supremacists view such gang violence as the affirmative action being taken that they personally support, but don’t act on themselves. Although, for example, the Iraq War and the Ra-Ho-Wa may have little in common, it’s the brutality and violence that soldiers undergo, and more importantly the support from back home from the common everyday people like us, that links such a connection in my mind.

I found lyrics to a poem posted on a blog held by a white supremacist. Here are a few excerpts from the poem:

“We’ll fight like soldiers, warriors with pride
Troops of today, martyrs in our time

Proud of our dress, proud of our colors
United we stand out amongst others
See us in force on a Saturday night
Always ready if they start a fight”

What sounds familiar? United we stand? We’re proud of our colors? Or how about we’ll fight like soldiers, warriors with pride? Now if that isn’t blatantly saying that they are the soldiers of this racial war, then I don’t know what is. American’s are proud to wave the good ol’ red white and blue all over the place. Hell, almost everything linked to the US says united we stand somewhere. I do want to stress the link I’m making here with American support of our soldiers versus that of the support white supremacists have of their gangs. I’m connecting the mental basis of things, not the reasoning itself. I’m not saying all American’s are white supremacists at all, so if you’re about to step on your soapbox and tell me I’m an ignorant close-minded person, please withhold from doing so. I’m proud to be an American.

Now back to the blog. Sure, not all white supremacists go around killing black people, or beating up Hispanics to a pulp. Typically such action is carried out by gang members in prison, such as some members of the Aryan Brotherhood, or commonly Skin Heads. These gangs are the people who carry out such violence. In the clip I posted, it shows footage of such brutality, along with the fear evoked in people of races other than white. These are the warriors of the racial war. These are the men on the front line. These are soldiers fighting, whether morally or immorally, for what they believe in: racial purity.