Police Raid Bakery Covered By Slain Editor

Chauncey Bailey Had Written About Rape And Vandalism Allegations Connected To Store

(AP)  Police conducted a series of raids early Friday, including one on a bakery that was the subject of coverage by a journalist slain in a brazen shooting a day earlier.

Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said 19 people were detained in the pre-dawn raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and three other locations.

He called the raids part of a yearlong investigation into violent crimes including murder, robbery and kidnapping, but would not say whether they were related to the shooting of journalist Chauncey Bailey on Thursday near the Alameda County courthouse in downtown Oakland.

Jordan did not identify the other locations that were raided. A news conference was set for later in the day.

Bailey was a longtime reporter for the Oakland Tribune and editor of the Oakland Post, a weekly newspaper geared toward the Bay Area black community. He had been researching an investigative piece about Your Black Muslim Bakery, Post publisher Paul Cobb told KTVU-TV.

The late Yusuf Bey founded Your Black Muslim Bakery in 1968 as a haven for struggling families. It sells natural baked goods alongside books by Malcolm X and other black leaders.

Bey's reputation took a hit when he was charged with rape. Most of those charges were dropped, and one was pending when he died in 2003.

More recently, police said Bey's son and other men had smashed liquor bottles in corner stores and berated the Muslim owners for selling alcohol to the black community.

Bailey covered the rape allegations and the vandalism, which led to charges against Bey's son and the other men.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by kailumego1 at 12:25 AM : Aug 05, 2007


Apology accepted.

My biggest gripe is that people (from both races) focus attention on color (race) instead of actions. I was raised to see people first and race only if necessary. I do not ignore race, I have at least two if not three in my bloodline. 'I do think the Native American part of me is the best looking but I try not to show it off (too much)'. I see that the majority of violence in the world at this time is related to Islam in one way or another. That is not a prejudiced statement, merely the way it seems. I do not hate Muslims but I think they are on the wrong track and will say so at every opportunity. However I will not kill them for an imagined affront to my GOD, He is big enough to care for himself and doesn't need me to do it for him.
I don't think we have any business in the mid east at all (with or without Oil). But then, thats just me.

[kailumego1]

ToolMangler, O.K. I apologize I misunderstood, I know how overly-zealous Agnim can be.

I thought you were acting in concert with the rest of the posters making insidious remarks about black on black crime.

And what I was trying to point out is that we all have our "crosses" to bare; moreover, all races have committed acts of violence amd degradation.

It bothers me whenever someone black commits an offense, some whites see it as a opportunity to take "pot shots", and vice versa.

You may have thought at times I was making racist comments however, I simply call it as I see it, I take neither sides, black or white, if an incident has been proven to be the result of an racist act, then so be it.

Likewise, if a black commits an offensive act, i.e. Michael Vick, O.J. Simpson, these Muslim offenders, etc. etc. I believe in calling it for it is, and not rationalizing it because the individual is black.

Europeans may have been greedy and brutal slave masters, but Africans were greedy selfish and brutal slave traders.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by kailumego1 at 10:18 AM : Aug 04, 2007

Why is it you only remember the bad? Yes! I got on your case for 'inane' remarks. In the same time frame I praised a comment of yours as being the best I had seen in a long time. But to cut to the chase here, I was chewing out Agnim for a bad move. He was fussing about people investigating a Muslim sect that 'happened' to be Black. Not one word was mentioned about the possible guilt or innocence of the people involved, merely that they were Black. Thats the gist of my comment. Now I will wait for you to show me where and why I was wrong to call attention to this.

[kailumego1]

Here we go again, white folks taking %u201Ccheap shots%u201D at black misery, while negate their own diabolicalness in the exploitation of Africa/African Americans.

"ToolMangler", why am I not surprise by your commment.....
And you have the nerve to castigate me for making innane racist comments.....

[kailumego1]

By all means excuse your ancestors misanthropic behavior and point your so-called self-righteous finger at anyone else beside yourselves, dismissing and forgetting European greed had exacerbated the %u201Cslave trade%u201D.

As cynical and maniacal African Chiefs of the Ashanti and Dahomey were to sell other Africans to European slave traders, they [Europeans] were just as inhuman and %u201Cbloodthirsty%u201D, filled with greed, to take part in this dehumanization.

So, don%u2019t %u201Cbark%u201D too loud in condemnation, because you%u2019re benefactors and beneficiaries of this inhuman malevolent greed.

So, in other words, you [beneficiaries] and your ancestors [benefactors] are right in the same %u201Cboat%u201D with all those Africans that forged this dehumanization on other Africans.

Africans did initiate the slave trade and Muslims were the first to invest, however, European hands are as %u201Cbloody%u201D as the other two, because afterwards Europeans, surreptitiously using the excuse to thwart the Muslim slave trade, further exploited Africans, starting with %u201CKing Leopold%u201D in the Congo.

I%u2019m glad this black reporter had the courage to uncover this grievous act of black exploitation and sorry for his death.

But, you so-called self-righteous white folks need to back off, because you%u2019re in no position to pontificate.

[vancouverboo]

Here's more from what agnim calls the "racist media" (If it criticizes blacks, it's racist I guess):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/04/MNLKRCIQG1.DTL

[zootallures2]

Skin color? Islam? Empty skin don't do much no matter what color. A bear rug ait a bear. And a Quran or any book can't even read it self. It's you you you you you... people, humans, you, us, we. That group and only that group. Face it. You done ok, but I don't think it's what the universe needs. Eventually we-awl gonna get fired.

[vancouverboo]

More recent stories have identified these black muslims as the killer of the reporter who was investigating them, as well as the killers of several homeless people in their neighborhood (ku klux klan tactics to rid the neighborhood of undesirables) and the vandals who broke liquor bottles off the shelves in local liquor stores (imposing their moslem beliefs by force on the entire neighborhood).

Thugs, gangsters, just the thing rap "music" idolizes.

[coffeehead-2009]

Anyone wish they were living in Africa?
Posted by Keithle1 at 09:06 PM : Aug 03, 2007

Yes - george bush and *** cheney ---

and pat -- pat robertson loves it in africa.
the white man wouldn't be over their starting a war if not.


According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[9] Taylor had extensive business dealings with televangelist Pat Robertson. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson (who also had business dealings with Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire) the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia%u2019s mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson%u2019s mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the state of Virginia concluded that Robertson diverted his ministry%u2019s donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation, but Attorney General of Virginia Mark Earley blocked any potential prosecution against Robertson.[14]





http://rejon.org/2007/03/24/charles-g-taylor-and-pat-robertsons-diamond-deal/

[toolmangler-2009]

ooops. balck=black

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by Agnim at 08:29 PM : Aug 03, 2007

I knew Agnim would play the race card on this one.
Aggy, the keyword here is 'Muslim' not balck

[keithle1]

Anyone wish they were living in Africa?

[agnim]

"Police Raid Bakery Covered By Slain Editor"

Obviously the racist media are seeking to make Black people target of the equally racist government thugs raids by suggesting a connection that even the police is not now admitting between their raid and the death of that editor, Chauncey Bailey.

[gkc99]

Now watch CAIR come rushing in to defend the criminals...
Posted by One_American

Mainstream Muslims don't accept the "Nation of Islam" Black Muslims. It's a cult that is even more violent and oppressive than mainstream Islam.

[cryonbrian]

Every religion has its killers! FACT! I am not defending any group but they all have its killers!

[one_american]

Islam is a "Religion of Peace"?

Hardly.

Now watch CAIR come rushing in to defend the criminals...

[gkc99]

These people ("Nation of Islam" = "Black Muslims") aren't "real" Muslims. They're an even more looney cult. Their vicious violent nature is exemplified by Louis Farakhan. They believe Whites are subhumans who were created on the island of Patmos (also home of St. John the "Divine") by a genetic engineering experiment that went awry. They're not shy about threatening or, apparently, killing anyone who gets in their way. Their "Fruit of Islam" security force makes a nice little strongarm group to enforce their will, particularly in the African American community. Guess this courageous editor got a little too close to the core of these gangsters.

[cryonbrian]

The sad part about it is that God never intended for Black folks to even be Muslim!