wapo writes an article about chauncey bailey

SEVEN days after his murder. it's NOT easy being green (or in this case, black)
in all fairness, they did write about his murder when it happened, but certainly not as much as mr bailey deserved

(here's the posting i did on mr bailey the other day, in memory of chauncey bailey

For Some in Oakland, Editor's Death Shows Subversion of Black Activism

By Karl Vick Washington Post Staff Writer



OAKLAND -- In a city where murder has taken on an element of routine, the shotgun slaying of Chauncey Bailey, in broad daylight by a young man who allegedly stood over the fallen journalist and pumped a second blast into his face, has galvanized Oakland as no single killing in decades.
It was not just the brutality that stunned the city. To some, the suspect's ties to a black Muslim bakery held a darker significance, a symbol that Oakland's radical black movement -- a history that spawned such national figures as Huey Newton and Angela Davis -- had over the years gone awry, and that the violence that infused parts of that tradition had been tolerated too long.......