"Army drops football team's 'GFBD' slogan because of link to white supremacy groups"
Officials at the United States Military Academy dropped a slogan used by the Army football team, "GFBD," after learning of its association with white supremacist groups.
An abbreviation for the phrase, "God forgives, brothers don't," it has appeared for several years on a rally flag carried into games by the Black Knights, and it reportedly was featured on some team-related merchandise. A hashtag, #GFBD, has also been used online by supporters of the team.
According to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the slogan and its abbreviation are popular among members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a major white supremacist prison gang. The ADL has also described "GFBD" as a phrase "shared" by such groups with motorcycle gangs and "intended to reinforce group loyalty" or to warn of never "snitching" on fellow members.
"It's embarrassing, quite frankly," Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, told ESPN, which first reported the story on Thursday. ". . . We take stuff like this very, very seriously. Once I found out about this goofiness, I asked one of our most senior colonels to investigate."