Discussion:Edward Bunker

A propos de l'appartenance d'Edward Bunker à la « Fraternité aryenne » (Aryan Brotherhood)

Il faudrait : soit mentionner la source/les sources permettant d’affirmer qu’Edward Bunker a bien été membre de la Fraternité aryenne, soit retirer cette mention (qui ne figure pas dans l'édition anglophone).

Dans son autobiographie L’éducation d’un malfrat, (chapitre 14 "Guerre raciale entre taulards") Edward Bunker fait en effet une allusion à cette "organisation", sans du tout laisser entendre qu'il y a appartenu: "La clique des Blancs dominants, dont plusieurs membres allaient par la suite fonder la Fraternité aryenne, étaient au courant de l’arnaque à l’origine des coups de couteau et ont décidé de ne pas s’en mêler" (Éditions Rivages, p.476).

Il cite dans ce même chapitre deux autres "organisations", "Nuestra Familia" et "la Eme" : « Leurs membres étaient violents, mais ils n’étaient pas particulièrement racistes :c'est-à-dire qu’ils n’auraient pas déclenché une guerre raciale. Mais ils comptaient parmi eux des gens comme moi qui avaient des camarades chicanos , lesquels nous avaient soutenus lors d’une confrontation avec un vaste gang de Mexicains, qui deviendraient par la suite La Nuestra Familia, mortelle ennemie de la Mafia mexicaine, alias La Eme » (Éditions Rivages, p.473).

On peut par ailleurs indiquer qu’Edward Bunker reconnaît lui-même ne pas forcément avoir "tout" dit ; ainsi  dans un entretien avec Christine Ferniot à propos de "L’éducation d’un malfrat" (L’Express 28/11/2001): "Avez-vous préféré cacher certaines choses ?" "Tout ce que je voulais c’était dire la vérité, sans rien ajouter. C’est d’ailleurs mon objectif littéraire en général. Mais pour être tout à fait honnête, il y a des choses que je n’ai pas dites car je n’en étais pas fier. Sachez cependant que je parle dans ce livre de situations pires que celles que j’ai dissimulées. Mais, j’en ai caché certaines, c’est vrai".  http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/edward-bunker-tout-m-est-arrive-trop-tard_805385.html

De même, dans un article du Harper’s Magazine, entre autre source, évoquant une fois encore les « guerres raciales » à San Quentin, il ne fait pas mention de l’Aryan Brotherhood. “War Behind Walls” Page 4, a religious doctrine of hate: …what increases racial polarization in prison beyond conciliation is the mutative leap in black militant rhetoric. This rhetoric is heard within prison walls by unsophisticated minds and gives those blacks that already hate whites a rational for murder. … Everyone understands that blacks have been brutalized by generations of institutional racism, and recently by inertia and indifference. What the sympathetic fail to grasp is that sometimes the psychological truncation is so great that it cannot be repaired. Nothing is left but hate. They have no desire—no motivation—for anything but revenge and a license for what they desire. Additionally they have decided that they are political prisoners. The black realizes that he has committed a crime, or has acted against the statures. However, the claim of “political prisoner” comes from the argument that he was formed by a corrupt system, that his acts are a result thereof, and therefore he cannot be held responsible. Secondarily, he feels he has never been a part of this system, but is still in slavery, and consequently the white laws do not apply to him. Such personalities are often found in prison, where the flower of black racism is blossoming, virulent and paranoid. Many white convicts are equally dangerous and intractable, but they at least intellectually accept their acts are wrong. And even white racist recognize their attitudes are no longer approved, to be shouted, whereas blacks are open in their racism. The catechism of Elijah Muhammad‘s Black Muslims that all whites are “beasts” that Moses raised them on their hind legs and led from the caves has wide following in prison. Such doctrines seem absurd, but blacks with third grade educations and Baptist parents who inculcated them with an inability to function without some religion believe this doctrine as zealously as devout Catholics believe in the Immaculate Conception. Elijah allows them to have god and hate Whitey too….guards that often seize writings proclaiming white genocide and the joys of bayoneting a pregnant white woman, see all blacks as animals, a direct threat…Such was the General Situation when the Mexican stabbed the black in the East cellblock…and the two whites were stabbed over the heroin swindle…All blacks and most whites were unaware that the warrior whites had decided to let the matter drop…four white convicts rushed from the North cellblock, carrying a man on a litter. A guard ran along beside them. As the retinue crossed through the white crowd, convicts walked alongside and asked what had happened. The wounded man had been napping in his cell (doors in the North cellblock are left unlocked) and one or two blacks stabbed him while he slept. He didn’t know who they were. He’d been selected because he was white and asleep… The white who’d been stabbed…was just an average convict, not someone special. Trouble might have subsided if that had been it. But an hour later a fifty-year-old white convict went up the stairs into an old building housing two classrooms. He was being transferred and wanted to say goodbye to a teacher. Three blacks were waiting at the top of the stairs. They knocked the man down and began stabbing him. They’d never seen him before. They’d been waiting for any white. Harper’s Magazine Feb. 1972
--Oursutra (d) 1 juin 2013 à 22:34 (CEST)