NEFEATTER Th= CRYATHAL PENTALTTY Ry: Lacino llamilton, #247510 Carson ~ City Correctional P.0. ROX 5000 carson City, M1 4:811-5000 NOTE: Feuw people, if any, will possess evary trait listed in the following pages. Neither is this s definitive list, meraly anne of the more common ones. They are not aluays mxhihited an rigidly es defined. The CRIMINAL MENTALITY is a non-entity, o pathogen resulting from ianorance, misinformation, neglect, low self-esteem, "T" aver "WF", orofit hefore peonle oriantation. vhich mesns, lanoranc must be renlaced with knouladge, misinformation with corract information, neglect uith love, low self-esteem with self uorth, "WF® over "T", and profit before peoole with people before profit. IT. the CRIMTNAL MFNTALTTY, mist be defeatad! Rafore the process of transformation from nredator to Protectar can he accomolished (uhich is ths gosl), the FRTMINAL MENTALITY must be defeated. Fy criminal { aenerally mean 1iving et the expense of others: Accenting pradatory and destructive bshavior as ontions; so-celled ends justifylng the means. fne of the most difficult things for most peopla is to sea themselves as they sctuslly are. No not attempt to force racognition af thes traits. fomoulafon is the antithesis to defeating the FRTMTNAL MENTALTTY. Method and tact are just ms important (sometimes morm {mnortant) then the informmtion itself. Tt ia counter- nroductive to confront peopla fn & combative and/or hostile menner: Like attracts 1ike. Method end tact reflect upon work-style and lavel of commitment, tun thinns UE must constantly work to perfect. The people are slusys resdyl then MR attemots fall to oroduce the desired results, it is us, not the peonle. HF must come saain. ne thing is for eartain, they mav heve a ways ta qo befare thev develon the qualities of Protactor, hut they cen if WE ere uho WE say WE ere. The resoonsibility to effectuata transformation rest with us. VT are the vanquard, it is MR responsibility to oo to the front and lead by example. UF ere an example of uhat MF are bullding. So UE must be certain that WE defeat the FATHINAL MENTALITY that [once] exist(ed) in us. IR main responsibility s vengusrd 1s to be thet of inspiring, influencing, fecilitating, mentorinn, end developing THE PENPLE to be Protectors. Think of the CRIMINAL MENTALITY @s e - sewer. when information is funnelad through tha CRIMINAL MENTALITY, regardless of its accuracy, its relevance, social practice will be foul end undesireble like a sewer. That is what the CRIMINAL MENTALITY does to information. The CRIMINAL MENTALITY is & uastelend. WE cennot ba both pradator snd Protector; qangster end revolutionary; thug and servant of the people. Before change in society occurs. change must first occur inside of us: ALL remnants of predstory behevior MUST be rooted out. The follouing pages uill not accomplish the tesk alome. Tt is @ tiny part. Hopefully W can furthar develop this into @ ferther reaching, mors comprehensive tool to- recognize traits uhich hinder transformation from predator to Protector. Ra-Aullding To Mint Lacino Hemilton. ANATOMY OF A CRIMINAL MENTALITY: Constant Anger: Anger is @ basic pert of the CRIMIHAL MERTALITY. It responds engrily to enythina it interprats 83 opposing uhat it wants for itself. Ancer s for the CRIMINAL MFNTALITY, @ major wey of controlling peonle and situstions. Also, CRIMINAL MENTALTTY expectations are so unrealistic thet the world can't possibly meet them. resulting 1n constant dismpointment and anger. Pride: The GRIMINAL MENTALITY pride is an extremely hiah valuation of oneself. Tt is the ides that ona is better then others, esven when this is clearly not the cate. Pride areserves its riold self-image ss @ poverful, totally self-determinina oersan. Power tactice: Tha CRIMINAL MENTALITY needs control and ower aver others. Tta qreatest pouer excitement ls doing the forbldden end getting sway with it. ITts need for cower, control and dominanco show in sll aress of 1ifa. The occasiona uhen the CRIMINAL MENTALITY appears to show an interest in a responsible activity sre generally viewed s ooportunities to exercise pouer and control. Concrets thinking: Tha GRIMINAL MENTALITY tends to think in term of particular ohjectives and events, rather than aeneral end shstract conceots. Tt has a herd time neneralizina, seeina outalde the moment. Und The CRIMINAL MENTALITY emphasizes its total difference from other peonla. Tt feels itself tn be snectal, "one of & kind." Sexuslity: The CRIMTNAL MENTALITY has had plenty of sexunl exneriances, hut 1ittle in the wev of senaunl aratification of competance in performance. fonquest is masential, and a partner in reqerded as a oostesaion. A hictnry of sexual ehusivaness or irresponsibilitv is Avident in almoat all cases. Feelinga: The CRTHTWAL MENTALTTY 1ivas primarilv with a Tramn work of thinking and bshavior. Fantions are vieusd an wsnk--has lost touch of its imner world of feelinns. Lying: For tha CRIMTNAL MENTALITY, lving 1s & wey of 1ife. Lying ia incornorated into its basic meke-up end feedn other criminal patterns. More common than nremeditated Jwing 1s hahitusl lying, which becomes sutomatic. Thr COTATHAL MENTALITV definea reality wdth ltes mod an mnintatne control. The CATMTNOL MENTALTTY amva “T rantss +n TAfusAl tn et teannnainlv. (2t the ammn time it baliaves thers is nothing it can't o that 1+ o tn.) The FATMINAL MENTALTTY mava T can'er 4o semane Accountehility for vhat 1+ doms. The_victim stance: ihen the COTMINAL MPNTALTTY fe held accountehla for ite irresonnaible sction, it hlames nthers and portravs iteslf ms & victim. The world does nn% afy 1t uhat Lt thinks it is entitled to. S0 1+ vieys 1tnelf an nonTly treated end, thus. victim. Lack of time perspective: Fven more than wantino what it wAnts whan It wants 1, the CRIMTNAL MENTALTTY cemands immeciste oossession AN success. Tt muet he the heat, have the best and have 1+ all rioh® now. Fallure to put onesslf in snother's place: The nrTeTuA MENTALTTY deelines to take responaihls Initintiyes hace (m) they fail +o orovide the sxcitemant and nmuar throes of forbldden nmctivities; (h) they rn nne nrovide o nuatantes nf aiccesa and triumnh: And (m) mecanting TRInONAthle taska may mwnoee Lt lack o nn nentness. [Romg— Lack of trust: Althounh the CRTNTHAL MENTALTTV dnme et Erust others, 1% demands that nthers truat 15, Thers ara tlmes uhen Lta trust of athera Ja sincera, St thie only rne of manu franmenta nf Lta naraanalisy. T+ dnec ant 1ant. The TRTMINAL SCRTALTTY dnme 114+ sn croacitien. Tt is nor will be "the heat,® nevar shat i+ Will dn 1% heat. Tt fa ciah® end others are wranno-then T Knou snmathing ta tioht and anmenne +alle ma §+'a wamn, T +uelly ger wan...Tf T near souehody say anything urong, T nrally £ry to sat tnem right--then confined, it regards itself as anre knouledqaahle than the staff and seizes cvery Gpportunity ta’ teach othars. fellure to meke an effort or endure adversity: "fffort" refers to dolng things tnat ere contrary to uhat one srofers ta do. Tn this sense the CRIMINAL MENTALITY @xpenos little effort, though it may expend tremendous “nergy aoing what it wants to do. It reuses to endurs the saversity of responsiole living. The main adversity to the CATMINAL MENTALTTY is failure to ba a big shot. Adversity i3 anything tnat is not going ite way. The CRIMINAL @7 TALTTY escepes from this edversity into criminal tnouant ana ection, wnich is exciting. Poor cecision-meking for responsible living: In important personal declsions, thers is no sound ressoning, fact findina or consideration of cost or options. Tha CRIMINAL MECTALTTY 1s reluctant to ask a question about nan- criminal activities, bscause it vieus it as @ put doun to reveal 1ta ignorance. Tf its pretension end expectations ara converted by the facts, it does not want to hear them. uper optimism: Tna CITMINAL MENTALITY works in such e way That a possibility or en assumption is an accomplished fact: An idea 13 a reality. If someona tells it "maybe," 1t regards it as a promise. Anything that it decides to do is a3 good as done. The CRIMINAL MENTALITY uses "cutoff" td eliminate fear und doubt. The result is that as it @anrosches @ eriminal activity it reaches a state of lute recponsible person, it is super optimistic of its success. Once it decides, it will belleve that the change nus already occurred. Drugs end eleohol: Suhstence abuse is highly sssociated uith violent and criminal benavior. The CRIMINAL MENTALITY is likely to b2 an abuser and use is frequently involved sitn its asiaultive benavior. A _poor work history: The CRIMINAL MEMTALITY scorns work. Tt Tefuses to get a job, changes johs franuently, cen't hold @ job end experiences conflict with supervision. Tt believes its self worth is equsl to the wege that is set by the market and not its velues, morals and socisl pratice Money: The CRIMINAL MENTALITY has @ poor concept of money management. Financial security is not important. Money is valued only as a measure of success and to play the role of big shot. The CRIMINAL MENTALITY _s the product of years of conditioning. It hes been influenced by family, friend lovers, sociel groups, conversation, music, television, movies, school, banks...interests which regard surviving st the expense of others ms the way of sstisfying nueds and wants. This mentality explains society and people by reaction and reaction only, uithout supposing there to be any capacity to ect outside of external influences. The FRTMTNAL MENTALITY has, of courss, strengthened the notion that "competing” is sll there is; for if that is sll there is to consider, 1f there is no possibility of e different way, then obviously the CRIMINAL MENTALITY cennot see the possibility of cresting instesd of rescting; and reacting sems the logicsl mesns of subjecting society and people to its control. If others lie, it uill lie. T others are selfish. it will be selfish. Tf others ara cold and callous, it uill be cold and callous. Tf others cheat. rob and murder, it will do the same. The MRTMTWAL MENTALTTY has no conntructive answers to questions of how life could he lived. The SATTNAL MENTALTTV, conditioned tn react, presesses an unhealthy craving for outside influences. Accustomed to hainn fad from without by a flow of criminal thouchts and imeaes. Tt calls for these things because thev strenqthen +he FRTMINAL MFNTALTTY--which is weak by nature. ® nentality conditioned as such will clearly show tuo characteristica: Tt will he nredatory and suffer from the nerd for nuantity over quality. The predatary hehavior is the product of the sociel nattern. canitaliam i.e., conatant competition, survival of the firteat, dnq-eat-dog. Producing the loss of internst in uhat ie qood for others (family, friends, lovers, *he netahborhood, etc.); and the need for quantity ovar nuality is, ton, a product of the social pattern. ornductnn @ losa of interest in morala, princioles and vnlue: The CRIMTNAL MENTALITY is not criminal heceuss it violates this or that lmw (though the CRIMINAL MENTALTTY certainly respects nn lau), the CRINTHAL MENTALTTY is criminal hocause it accepts living st the exnense of others. Pacause its success depands on capitelizing on the fanorance. vices and shortcoming of others. That the CRTMINAL MENTALITY aspires to batter shous it to he dissatinfied uith its present conditions; and in such dissatisfaction lles the cepacity for change--from aredator to Protector. The goal here is to oresent @ simple but comnrehensive view of the CRTMTNAL MENTALITY and the realization that it is the result of social pattern, and can he defested. The errors it induces ere so disastrous that it 1s the first ohstacle to be cleored out the way if the tranaformation from predator to orotector is to be accomnlished. Uhen sver a small group of Blacks gather for some purpose more sarious than a card party, [repression follous]. Militent Black lssdership is 1iks being on a bomb squed. confidence in your skills snd a courage sble that you're messing uith dynsmits, but someone has to do it. Mne mistake and you're gone. Sometime you're gone uhether or not you meke mistaks. Michael Eric Dyson Arn Ralsed fioh, Fist flinched. fere seems to be confusion over the meaninn 0 REVOLUTTAM TS NUTLAIFD TH AMERTEA. Some ect es if this aives them carts hlanche to engage in oredatorv hehavior. come strictly out for self, othara raking occasional contributions to the strunqle. Fither wny mxtreme hatn fs heing done. tours, davs. months, years of cracinilivy (thet others prohably hullt) can be deatroved by one predatorv act disouised as revolution; or envehinn supooardly desioned to heln the neocle--in the end Non't qet me wrona, revolution is outlawsd in America. £11 peaple sponsored initiatives desianed tn take contrnl of MR 1ives ere outleued. However, YT have tn under=tand what this means. Hhen Afrikens uere kidnanoed and nlaced on ships heeded for America (as uell ss other nlaces), it uas outlswed to jumn overboard or attemnt to take control of the shin. fonfined to