Betrayal (Paperback)

Description

Betrayal tells a story that is both harrowingly specific and heartbreakingly universal. It is the story of a young African American boy who, like many young souls before him and many after, chose the military not out of sheer patriotism or simple convenience, but as a lifeline—a beacon amidst a swirling storm of gang violence, poverty, systemic racism, and the devastating crack epidemic that ravaged his neighborhood and his family. This young man stepped through the gates of the military with dreams tinted by hope, clutching tightly to the belief that here was a place where he could be more than the sum of the hardships he escaped. Instead, he found himself violently uprooted again, this time inside an institution meant to protect and empower, his body and spirit invaded by men who cloaked their hatred in the uniforms they wore and the hateful insignia they bore—men who belonged not only to the military but to the KKK, a terrifying echo of the racial hatred that stalked the streets he fled.