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But for all my shock at the crime that killed a fellow journalist, I wasn't surprised to hear last week that a 19-year-old, bowtie-wearing handyman at the bakery had admitted to the shooting.
San Francisco Bay Area, we referred with pride to the entire Northwest region of the United States as "the wild, wild West." It was a frontier that needed taming, and we made that our mission. In the Bay Area, the Nation took in more than its share of sinners, the hopeless, the fallen, to give them discipline and direction through our faith. But tragically, after more than three decades, the bakery is still breeding lawlessness and a way of thinking that is the opposite of what the Nation stands for.
Georgia man who taught us to blend black unity with Muslim faith. Most Black Muslims -- like most Arab, African, Asian and white Muslims, for that matter -- are God-fearing men and women who strive and pray every day to live in peace.
Malcolm X, an early leader, the Black Muslims attracted many ex-offenders and social dropouts who had trouble discarding the "slave mentality" from which we all suffered. I suspect this is the case with Devaughndre Broussard, the 19-year-old who told police that he killed Bailey. Today, with the "get rich or die trying" mentality that pervades black pop culture, young black males face more traps than we did. My primary reason was to strengthen my claim as a conscientious objector from the US Naval Reserve.
We were searched before entering the mosque, and cigarettes and gum were confiscated. Women or girls were not permitted to ride in the front seat of a car with an unrelated male driver. We addressed everyone, including children, as "sir" or "ma'am." In the early 1970s, the late Yusef Bey -- then known as Captain Joseph X -- the founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, moved to Oakland with his brother, Minister Billy X The brothers received permission to establish another congregation, called Mosque No. Glib, mustachioed and smooth-talking, the brothers immediately made an impression. They directed men in their mosque to read "The Godfather" so that they would understand their leadership style. And they raised eyebrows when they began spending time with a pretty single woman named Captain Felicia X, who headed a training program for women in Mosque No.
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