KILL THE MESSENGER: One Man's Fight Against Bigotry and Greed

By Ken H. Fortenberry

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934601720
• ISBN13: 9780934601726
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Peachtree Pub Ltd
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Legacy of Apathy

While I agree with a number of the comments made by the first reviewer here, I would like to add a number of further observations that I think lend extra value to Fortenberry's text. In his portrait of McCormick, Fortenberry pays particular attention to the subject of education. McCormick is rigidly divided along lines of race and this is reflected in the schools. The more affluent whites are warehoused in the lamentable Long Cane Academy, which survives on the display of teenage flesh in hopelessly outmoded 'beauty pageants' and door-to-door ticket sales for BBQ and alike. The county's majority black population attend the crumbling public school system, the appearance of which more befits a gulag than an educational facility. The County had opportunity to change this situation through a school bond referendum earlier this year, however, the aging white residents of Savannah Lakes Village - a 'Gone With the Wind' and golf themed retirement complex/special tax haven newly built on the County's lakeside border - voted against the bond and set back educational progress another 15 years. Fortenberry's book highlights the root of this apathy and spiritual corruption. His portrait of a community hopelessly divided along the colour line is spot on and little has changed in 15 years. Perhaps it is time to re-read Kill the Messenger and take some decisive action.