Aryan gangs allowed to organize in prison

Amerikans are so afraid that the downtrodden and disenfranchised are going to demand their rights that they throw more and more in prison.(According to the Summer 2005 issue of FAMMGram the Federal, Texas, California, Florida and New York prison systems account for 663,702 people in prison. How many more on probation?) Once in prison, if a young brother or sister wants to gather with others to learn of her/his own heritage, all they meet is opposition from prison authorities or other inmates.

Most Amerikan prisons will not allow two or three inmates to gather for any sort of education without considering the gathering a gang. And if you try to seek some sort of approval from the authorities, they will not grant it because they will say it's racial in nature. But that is a contradiction! At a Florence, CO prison, Aryan groups are allowed to come together under the guise of religion. They call themselves "Odenists" or the "Church of the Creator" or "SAC" (Soldiers of Aryan Culture). They only preach and teach hate. Yet this is approved by prison authorities? No other group is given such a right.

I was run to the SHU by two neo-Nazi gangs because I am Rastafarian, mulatto, and because I was starting an African-American study group. Why are we not allowed the same rights and privileges afforded the Nazi/Aryan groups? Why do we simply sit down and take it?

If you are in prison, start the [institutional remedy] process before going to court, and take these issues to court. Write local and national media. Make others aware of what we go through.

-- a Colorado prisoner, December 2005