Long before the shooter walked into a suburban Milwaukee Sikh temple and opened fire, murdering six people before being killed by police, the former soldier reportedly responsible for the horrific attack was loaded with the ideological ammunition to carry out acts of mass violence against people of color.
Wade Michael Page has been identified as the alleged shooter. The exact motivation for Page’s targeting of the Sikh temple is not now known, but his background shows a young man who for over a decade had his head filled with white noise.
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For more background on white power music, check out Soundtracks to the White Revolution: White Supremacist Assaults on Youth Music Subcultures. And for ways young people, parents, teachers, and music professionals can respond, read The Turn it Down Resource Kit
