in this episode we talk about the oldest all black Outlaw motorcycle club and I'm talking
about the outcast MC people have been asking for this one like crazy I did another video on
black biker history and black Outlaw motorcycle clubs and everybody wanted to know more about the
outcast mc and we get into it on this episode a Demons Row TV and oh yeah we ghostin baby
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welcome to Demons Row TV the Holy Grail of MC culture where we cover everything motorcycle and
Motorcycle Club involved I'm sose the ghost I'm your host for the evening and everybody
was lighting up the DM's messages all over social media I did a video called black Outlaw motorcycle
clubs and black biker history it's an amazing video we talked about the East Bay dragons The
Chosen Few MC we talked about Ben Hardy sugar bear there was so much love on it but a lot of people
in the comments were saying why wasn't Wheels of Soul mentioned why wasnt Sin City mentioned why
wasn't Outcast mentioned and what I want people to understand about that video it wasn't just a list
of the most famous clubs that everybody knows that happen to be a black Club it was an article that
I was reading so in that article I'm reading the words they stated I'm not omitting clubs
those clubs weren't mentioned in the breakdown I got love for everybody you gotta remember I came
from a club I'm from the east coast in the Bronx blacks whites Puerto Ricans everybody's together
but let's get into this legendary motorcycle club the outcast MC it says the outcast MC was started
in Detroit in 1969. they are the oldest all black motorcycle club in the world Black Riders
typically weren't allowed to join white clubs so the name and identity of outcasts was chosen for
the new group 44 years later they still keep their traditions of being an all-black wearing
all black and riding all black motorcycles so they did a documentary called Outcast Forever by Devon
Hughson in 2016 and it says it offers a Frank and Majestic portrait of the first Nationwide
all-black motorcycle club Outcast formed in 1969 in Detroit Michigan by sunny day
Angel herb and others part history lesson part sociological document and part striptease the
film Outcast forever reveals the express love of the motorcycles and Freedom by wide-ranging
and diverse black male motorcycle club members it reveals a deep and permanent Brotherhood of
black and male non-conformists who are either War veterans or roused abouts Factory workers
or tough guys family men or lone wolves many of them live double lives to honor their code offo
outcast forever forever Outcast and respect to the death of the biker lifestyle with rigorous
and at times hilarious initiation rituals not unlike those of college fraternities and
challenging probationary periods for wannabe members admission into the club creates not
only a bond among its members but also a bond among the various Nationwide chapters of the
Club chapters and cities which stretch across the United States linked by thousands of miles
of freeways and the skull symbol of the old man with braids that signifies a member as an outcast
in 1969 because of the deep racial divide that kept existing with white biker clubs nearly all
white with the few if any black members allowed in spite of the Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger
comments to the contrary black membership in the Hells Angels was notoriously difficult and often
stymied for reasons of white supremacy as Hunter S Thompson observed in his book of the Hell's
Angels I have been around the Angels long enough to get the drift of their thinking on ends just as
the vicious murder of the black man Meredith curly Hunter Jr by multiple drunken and aggressive Hells
Angels members acting as a stage security at the Rolling Stones all tomorrow free concert in 1969
made clear that the tolerance damage for blacks by house Angels had its well-defined limits although
there were other all-black motorcycle clubs across the country the creation and Nationwide popularity
of the outcast motorcycle club was based in no small part upon this racial exclusion of blacks
from the more notorious white biker clubs one of the outcast members of the Alabama chapter
Big Bear tells us that the biker code is such that if a biker of whatever race or Club sees
another biker broken down on the side of the road he is obligated to help him so that regardless of
the racial segregation that exists within the World At Large within the biker world the code
of the biker trumps all of these barriers it is in this way that perhaps we could see the
biker world as some sort of Freemasonry on Wheels whose ideals of Brotherhood revolves around the
two wheels of Independence that a biker rides upon and the freeways that they travel upon in
groups although there are animosities within the separate chapters and between the different clubs
these disparate radical and rugged individuals unite much like the racially segregated Freemasons
by the religion upon which all men can agree the biker world is a curious Paradox of independence
from the normal world and dependence upon others within the club segregation of races
and Conformity to the tenets of non-conformity one is made to adhere to a discipline for the
right to pursue undisciplined behaviors these well-balanced and opposing contradictions are
some of the most fascinating and engrossing aspects of the biker Lifestyle the outcasts
talk about the troubling notion of women as property girlfriends female acquaintances and
female entertainers affectionately branded as property of outcasts or POS for short the women
speak freely of their commitment to the bikers as they give middle fingers to the cameras and
proudly display their property of outcast patches the outcast motorcycle club is a Reclamation of
black male individuality patriarchal Heritage and a fraternity that stands defiantly in the face of
the lethal social control mechanisms that exist within American society to subjugate and neuter
black males as means of lessening why society's fear of the black male this Reclamation of black
individuality and Independence often comes as an exorbitant price in the form of jobs lost
marriages that fail because of the absolute commitment to the biker lifestyle and the
brothers who die in motorcycle accidents it's your fractional altercations with other members
encounters with the police or with Outsiders the bike of Lifestyle isn't for everyone and
wasn't meant to be it's ride or die roll with it or be rolled over he says before
concluding I'd like to give some attention and praise concerning the form and style of
outcasts forever and the extraordinary efforts of filmmaker Devon Houston his cinematographer
Gabriel Moskowitz with whom he shares smash the like button if you're getting value out of this
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