Word: aryan
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Prisons are a breeding ground for groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Aryan Circle. When the Texas prisons were desegregated in the early 1980s, whites and blacks were spread evenly throughout the prison system. Blacks, who were 60% of the inmate population, became a dominant force in many cellblocks. It "helped the white-supremacy groups recruit because whites were the minority and were becoming victims," says Sammy Buentello, head of the Texas department of criminal justice's gang-management office. A former state-prison psychologist testified at trial that an assault by black inmates may have played a critical...
...prosecutors say, King was making plans to form a Jasper chapter of the Confederate Knights of America, to be called the Texas Rebel Soldiers. Brewer was King's first recruit, the government says, and Berry was the second. William Matthew Hoover, a fellow inmate of King's and an Aryan Brotherhood member, testified that King may have been planning an initiation ritual for his new gang that included kidnapping a black man, driving him to the woods and killing him. "They have to take someone out," Hoover testified. "Blood in, blood out. You have to spill blood...
...part of a "blood-tie" initiation into the Klan chapter he planned to form. Photos showed tattoos covering much of King's upper body, including the image of a black man hanging from a tree, pentagrams, goat heads, a horned baby Jesus, Nazi SS lightning bolts and the words ARYAN PRIDE...
...filter for the websites that are racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic? That's the idea behind the Anti-Defamation League's new HateFilter, a $30 program (available at adl.org designed to help parents shield their children from sites sponsored by groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation. Shading their eyes from hate, however, won't make it go away...
...true that Nazi propagandists appropriated Germanic and Norse mythology in their glorification of German nationalism, it is untrue that "Scandinavian literature was influenced by the Nazis." In reality, it was the Nazis who attempted to assimilate this Scandinavian literature in an effort to further strengthen their own 'Aryan' identity. MARCELLINE BLOCK '01 ELIZABETH A. CHIAPPA '01 SARAH B. SCHAUSS '01 JENNIFER K. WESTHAGEN...