Title: Cult of Sacrifice
Author: J. Greyson Fike
Publisher: XlibrisUS
ASIN: B08R721BWZ
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 281
Synopsis
When Harvey Davenport is elected to City Council, he intends to make changes for good. Instead, he discovers that the council has approved plans to construct a waste disposal facility in a minority community already suffering from toxic waste produced by two nearby industrial parks. Incensed by this careless example of institutional racism, Harvey struggles to have the project moved to a less harmful location. However, threats, gunshots and a beating soon confirm that the establishment?s determination to have its way is stronger than he anticipated. Inspired by the author?s own experiences in 1965 Alabama, Cult of Sacrifice is an example of how racism permeates our business, political, and cultural institutions as it poisons and destroys Black lives both young and old. The barbarous treatment of Blacks occurs everywhere, but by shining a light on this injustice, perhaps we can reach equality.
About the Author
This book has its genesis in 1965 when, as a college senior, I traveled to Montgomery, Alabama. Hundreds of students responded to a call from SCLC and SNCC that spring to join an intense effort to register local Blacks to vote. While there, I witnessed police brutality against whites as well as Blacks just like we see today on America’s streets. Then, during the next three years organizing community protests against discrimination in housing and education in Chicago, I witnessed the same barbarous treatment of Blacks in the north. Throughout my career as a charity fundraiser and multi-media producer, and then as a university professor of nonprofit management, I have worked to expose the often subtle but deeply rooted and pernicious ways whites have persisted in enslaving Black Americans economically, politically and culturally for five centuries. I am thankful that retirement has brought the opportunity to write this story as just one example of how institutional racism permeates our business, political and cultural institutions as it poisons and destroys Black lives young and old.
