I am not a racist…
By Steve Parsley
First and foremost I’d like to say I appreciate Demond Jackson and Jonathan McNair for providing me with the opportunity to share my American perspective and correct a stereo type that most people associate with white men affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood.
Most people believe that me and my brothers are racist. I’m attempting to say there are not racist amongst us. But this is not the agenda of the Aryan Brotherhood. That’s like saying Crips and Bloods are racist because most of them are associated with black nationalist movements. In prison were the majority of inmates are African American’s and non-whites, a lonesome white boy can be oppressed by the majority thus. We find ourselves uniting in order to combat prison oppression by others. Now this may come as a surprise, because you don’t read about whites being oppressed in prison in the mainstream media. But the truth is it happen allot whites are the minority in federal prison, everything in the feds is racial and geographical. There are black TV’s, Mexican TV’s, black cells, Mexican cells, black tables in the dining hall, Mexican tables and so on and so on. If whites fail to unite and stand they wouldn’t have a TV to watch or a place to eat. I’ve been to institution where blacks have 6 TV’s out of 8 the Mexican have the others 2. Whites must unite and risk life and limb in order to get access to a TV in which we can watch show that cater to our culture. If it’s only one TV in the institution 99% of the time white will have no say so over that TV.
For those who have not been incarcerated, the concept of what a white man endures during incarceration is unconceivable, most would not understand what it feels like to hear African American men make derogatory statement like “Cracker this cracker that!” with no consideration of the fact that word is the equivalent to the “N” word to me and my brothers.
Most of you would not know from looking at me that, I have two bi-racial nieces in which I love I could never imagine them being mistreated by my brothers or being treated less than my family, based on the fact that they are half black.
“I am not a racist…” I am a man who refuses to stand by and watch his people be oppressed, I am a convict that believe in convicts uniting for the betterment of one another, the unjust laws that are effecting African American’s and Non- Whites are effecting me and my brothers as well and I have have no problem standing with any man, woman of any race who believes in fighting to see these laws changed. Because race has nothing to do with the size of my cell, what I will lose during my incarceration and what I go through behind these walls. When a right or privilege in prison is taken away we all lose…
Institution: U.S.P Lee in Lee County Virginia,
Age: 38 born November, 11, 1976.
Home: I'm from the west side of Columbus Ohio,
Time: Currently serving a 10 and a half year sentence for Drug and Gun charges,
OutDate: My approximate release date is 2017. (Maybe this year for 2 point reduction/drug law)
Known to: Deal Drugs
Affiliation: Aryan Brotherhood (Ohio)
Occupation: I'm a tattoo artist, Repairman, Painter
Hobbies: Drawing, paint on Canvas, have a love for music Heavy Metal and Rap.
Family: 2 sisters, 1 brother, 4 nieces, 1 son (deceased) lots of love from Home, much support!