Killing the Messenger : A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backla
By: Peele, Thomas
ISBN: 9780307717559
Publisher: Random House Inc
When a nineteen-year-old member of a Black Muslim cult assassinated Oakland newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey in 2007—the most shocking killing of a journalist in the United States in thirty years—the question was, Why? “I just wanted to be a good soldier, a strong soldier,” the killer told police. A strong soldier for whom?