The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights | 
#CurrentlyListening to this mix of sociology and crime narrative exploring racially-charged murders in 1970s San Francisco during the time of Patty Hearst. Truly a fascinating read, especially about the structural racism in the SFPD.
I finished #LitsyAtoZ this morning and started my last book for #ModernMrsDarcy .
pickThis book recounts San Francisco‘s crescendo of panic due to what the police named the Zebra murders, racially motivated murders that began in October 1973 and ended in April of the following year. The four people convicted of the crimes called themselves the “Death Angels.” ⬇️
Last one for #LitsyAtoZ ! 🎉🎉🎉
This is what I didn't learn in US history, but heard only after years of working to gain understanding of why there existed such a chasm of mistrust. My friend (she is African American) tells me that until we can openly speak about the truth and acknowledge the realities, we cannot begin to heal. That is why I am personally trying to learn and ask all I can, to try.
These two officers took on the system...SFPD, controlled by Irish whites, and yet were also targets of black militants. Brave men...Prentice Earl Sanders and Rotea Gilford. They changed the system from within, which seems the hardest way.
Remember, this is "liberal" California, San Francisco. Granted, it is the mid 1960s, but still...
#reademandeatathon
This is teaching me so much about the period immediately following 1964's Civil Rights Act. The south has long been viewed from without as racist, and there is no doubt of that, but racism extended from coast to coast. And still does. Having grown up outside of such a mindset, as a military brat, I still don't "get it," but can only hope to attempt to understand why different is threatening.
