big shout out to the ghosts and the ghostettes on this episode we talk about the ranking system in
a one percent club what we call in mc culture is the board and we break down from president
vice president sgt sergeant at arms some have enforcers it mixes up different depending on
what kind of club you're in and we also get into why I think the board is destroying the culture
and we get into it on this episode of demons row tv and oh yeah we ghostin baby
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big shout to the ghosts and the ghostettes 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 today we talk about the board being a member of the board
for a lot of years as a sergeant at arms I'm gonna tell you my personal experiences without talking
club business but I'm gonna break down how boards run and I've done this as a one percent and as a
99 and there's a lot of similarities into the way the structure is and the board is the beginning
of what ruins the club the board is the politics the board in my opinion if it's handled right
it makes it easier to handle club business but if it's handled wrong which I've seen on both
sides how it can be handled wrong and handle well and we're gonna break down the ranking system the
hierarchy of the culture from president vice president the sergeant-at-arms we're gonna go
position by position on the board but the first thing i want you to do like we always do on
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hit the like button and let's first break down the board now we're going to start at the top of the
spectrum in a charter the number one guy is the president now the president is the head honcho but
make no mistake about it the president does not run the club the board as a whole runs the club so
can a president run the club by force yes he can but he has to have puppets in place his sergeant
got to have his back to the fullest protect them everything like that and be strength and
his vp got to be in pocket if it's like that then a president can run the club but sometimes the vp
is his biggest enemy on a low but the president has responsibilities i got whole videos on the
president's responsibilities i linked that down in the comments to be a good president you have to be
very diplomatic you got to have a vp that doesn't want your spot and your sergeant-at-arms got to
be a hitter can't be just somebody that's cool really a nice guy but ain't really about that life
your sergeant got to be a strength somebody that is very active and not passive because I've seen
both sides if you have a passive sergeant your president will not laugh every president that i
know that had a weak sergeant and the vp had any aspirations of having a spot eventually took his
spot second in power is the vice president now the vice president does a lot of the day-to-day work
that to me is the busiest job the vice president does all the things that make it easier for a
president if you got a lazy vp being a president is going to suck the vp handles all the finances
with the treasurer has to report that back to the president and to the club eventually he has
to handle stuff with the secretary about relations with other clubs upcoming events he has a lot on
his table of vp is a lot of work he deals with the clubhouse manager directly on everything that has
to be handled in the clubhouse restocking parties all kind of stuff you know having prospects
take care of certain duties and stuff like that that the club manager you know he takes
that weight off his back but that is a major part right there that the vp does and he has to report
everything back to the president the number three guy the sergeant at arms my favorite position in
the mc it's a position of strength you only answer to the president I have whole episodes about this
on the social ghost channel and on this channel this is the topic that I love the most sgt at arms
if you have a strong sergeant at arms you have a strong chapter charter if you have a weak
sergeant your club is weak I don't care what the club is nine times out of ten if you have a weak
sergeant everything else falls apart sergeant is the president's right hand he protects him
if something happens to the president it's on the sergeant if something happens to club members
it's on the sergeant a lot of people view this position as the position where you have to like
act tougher than you really are and act like a dick with your brothers and i disagree with
that wholeheartedly the thing you have to do is you have to be aggressive when it's time but being
aggressive with your brothers only when it's time not just on a regular basis i think that that's
fake honestly and i know a lot of sergeants do that they just walk around with the with the tough
guy grill and all that and i understand if you're at an event you have to portray a certain image
me i never been that type of person I'm just myself in every situation I'm not out there
laughing and joking around though you're serious you know but I don't put the extra thug grill on
and stuff like that when I'm out at spots now the secretary and the treasurer I kind of put them
together because they do a lot of the same things the treasurer is more the finances he handles
the books he keeps records of everything fully patched members can always ask to see the books
too if you're in a club and you can't ask the treasurer to see the books something is not right
see a good treasurer keeps a president from having too much control for president controls the money
corruption begins to happen and I've been in those situations where the president is stealing
and the treasurer is in his pocket so if the treasurer is not honest and the treasurer is like
very close with the president a lot of corruption goes down but if you have a great treasurer I've
seen that side also where they hold the president accountable you can't touch the money you can't do
this it's the checks and balances system that's why i say some people think like when they start
their little club or i'm a president you know you got to do what i say that's not the way it works
the president is the head he talks with the other heads and does that type of stuff but when you're
inside the club it's all about respect and the board makes the real decisions now some clubs have
road captain as part of the board some don't some have the clubhouse manager on the board some don't
some have an enforcer not a sergeant-at-arms so basically the sergeant-at-arms breakdown
enforcer pretty much the same thing it depends on the club setup you know every club is different
so basically we broke down what the positions are in the board now how does the board sit down and
meet and this is the part where I say corruption and a lot of the politics and problems start
the board I've been on the board so I'm telling you straight the board these brothers that are
on the board sit down an hour before all the brothers actually sit down so we sitting down
there making all the decisions on everything that's gonna happen while our brothers fully
patched are sitting there waiting for us to talk they come later they come in we don't already
made all the decisions argued about what's going on by the time the fully patched members walk in
it's like the decisions are made already so i always was one of those people that advocated
for like no like we brought this up but now the bros got a vote on it you know what I mean like a
lot of people wanted to just make the decisions because it benefited them and I always hated
that so I'm gonna be honest with you if all the decisions are made on the board then by the time
the fully patched members you got diamonds you got fully patched members they're walking in
their voice don't count so what does it matter to be fully passive your voice don't even count and
I'm not saying that this happens at all clubs and I'm not saying that this happens at all chapters
but i'm telling you the way it is when it's good and the way it is when it's bad i've seen both
sides where you know everything is discussed on what we're going to talk about in the meeting
with the whole club and then you know so the way they format it is you do the board first
you have your your meeting and then you present it to the club you have that meeting then after that
you let the prospects in after that you let the hangar rounds in and then you break you know the
basic stuff down to everybody what events are coming up stuff like that but i feel that the
board is the main problem in clubs if clubs just took a vote straight up there would be no politics
now you could still have politics because certain people you know sway others have their back room
conversations and all that stuff man I'm telling you if you're in a club and you hear that type
of stuff and you're not like let's say you're a prospect and you're starting to notice stuff
like that I'm telling you run because those clubs I'm telling you waste a couple years of your life
dealing with people that are just playing like cosplay they're dressing up as bikers
and you know like they never put in work when they were younger and now they're older and they want
to be a gangster there's a lot of that that goes on let's be honest here there's a lot of brothers
dressing up wearing the club stuff just to be cool they have no good intentions of brotherhood
or what this thing could really be when it's right I've seen brothers brothers that are loved
get out bad just from the board no vote taken like how is that possible how is it
that someone that is fully patched gets kicked out the club just off board vote so five people are
conducting what the whole club what the decision is for the whole club all the fully
patched members that's a problem and that's the reason why there's a lot of backbiting
a lot of politics a lot of people stabbing each other in the back fourth position so that's why i
say if you're in a position where you got brothers that you love vote everybody vote and be men at
the end of the day if the vote doesn't go your way listen more people felt like it should go that way
leave it alone move on from that subject maybe it just wasn't right maybe your brothers just
saw something that you didn't see and that's a good thing in a lot of situations a lot of minds
coming together so the board to me if it's done right it could be a great thing if it's done wrong
it will destroy your chapter you will see brothers in another club doing the same thing over and over
it happens a lot i really want to know what y'all think about this let me know in the comments what
do you think about the board is it a good thing or is it a bad thing matter of fact give me a
pound good if you think it's a good thing give me a pound bad if you think it's a bad thing i
got another video talking about sergeant arms and vp on the end screen thank you for tuning in to
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