ACORN 8: Race, Power & Politics: Memoirs of an ACORN Whistleblower

Michael McCray has both his CPA and his law degree, and yet, in the mid 1990's, those became obsolete when he was met with a decision that changed his life forever.

That's when he became a whistle blower. At the time, he was working at the United States Department of Agriculture, overseeing a Federal Empowerment Zone in Mississippi for the Clinton White House.

There, McCray says he discovered mismanagement and corruption involving the main bureaucrats working for the zone.

When McCray attempted to report this corruption, he says the system attempted to cover up his revelation and smear him in the process.

Since that day, he's become an advocate, activist, organizer, and now writer.

McCray found himself at a cross roads within an organization that would soon begin to live in infamy for a few months at least, and become the main story everyone was talking about.

The name of the organization is the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and thousands of writers have broached the subject, but this story is different.

That's because it's the first one told from the perspective of the whistle blower.

As a whistle blower, McCray wasn't merely a witness to the now recent history of ACORN, but he was an active player.

McCray says that he wrote the book, ACORN 8-Race, Power and Politics, in conjunction with another ACORN whistle blower, Marcel Reid.

Glenn Beck called Reid a modern day Rosa Parks, when he first introduced the ACORN story to the public.

Reid was Beck's main source back then and she headed up the DC Chapter of ACORN, which eventually went rogue.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) spoke exclusively with McCray, Reid, and the genius behind ACORN, Wade Rathke.

Reid has been quoted often as saying of Rathke,