Book sheds light on the issue of sacrifice zones and its harmful effects to people and the environment
YPSILANTI, Mich., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new city councilman who hopes to help the minorities of his community finds himself stonewalled and confronted with widespread racism. Will he overcome the threats along the way? Readers are set to find out in J. Greyson Fike's "Cult of Sacrifice" (published by Xlibris).
Harvey Davenport, whose mother succumbed to industrial toxic waste at an early age, returns to Westfield in retirement to run for city council. His objective is to break up the collusion between business owners and public officials that has caused toxic waste to flow into a minority residential neighborhood for more than a century. When the city council votes to install a waste disposal facility in the midst of this minority community, Harvey works with neighborhood residents to fight the strong and violent tactics used by business leaders to keep the waste confined to that area against the people's will.
Inspired by the author's own experiences in 1965 Alabama, "Cult of Sacrifice" is an example of how racism permeates the business, political and cultural institutions as it poisons and destroys Black lives, both young and old. It provides readers with a close-up look at a city that has a "sacrifice zone" — demonstrating what a sacrifice zone is, how it came into being, how it works, and how it affects people and the environment.
"'Trust in government officials is waning in America today. Largely, this is because we have allowed the corporations to take over government so that elected officials and the government offices of the bureaucracy do whatever the corporate heads pay them to do," the author states. "This book shows, in a micro-perspective, how that has happened. I hope readers will take away the thought that by working together with others at the local level, the corporate arm-twisting and payoffs we now see in abundance can be abolished and we can together reform governance in the direction of meeting citizen needs, wants and values rather than giving business and industry anything they want."
"Cult of Sacrifice" was first published in 2020 and is available for purchase at https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/819314-cult-of-sacrifice.
"Cult of Sacrifice"
By J. Greyson Fike
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 312 pages | ISBN 9781664143203
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 312 pages | ISBN 9781664143197
E-Book | 312 pages | ISBN 9781664143180
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
J. Greyson Fike has had nine careers in his lifetime. Overarching has been fundraising for charity and teaching university classes in nonprofit management. He has worked to expose the often subtle but deeply rooted and malicious ways whites have persisted in enslaving Black Americans economically, politically, and culturally for five centuries. He has worked for and with municipal clients across Michigan. "Cult of Sacrifice" is his debut novel.
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