…the crime stories that sell books are overwhelmingly about whites killing whites.
Thus, James devotes nine pages to the famous Zodiac Killer, a white man who murdered five whites in Northern California in the late 60s. Like most, James also ignores the forgotten Zebra Killers, Black Muslim racial terrorists who subsequently murdered at least fifteen whites in San Francisco from 1973-4.
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PS: here’s how one filmmaker got around the “Zebra Killer problem” — he made the killer a white guy in blackface.
Although apparently there’s a 2013 Zebra Killer flick in the works.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
