For a While: The Chauncey Bailey and Your Black Muslim Bakery Story

Epigram

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16
אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן
Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman
All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.
More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."
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Abraham Isaac Kook
"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.
Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).
Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."
Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."
Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.
Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

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August 10, 2007

For a While: The Chauncey Bailey and Your Black Muslim Bakery Story

My of the queries to my blog come from "bots", so I believe, for all of the pages are "hit" within a couple of minutes, but a few come by way of mention of "Korengal Outpost" and queries for the names of one soldier or another fallen in 2006, which are listed here, and a few come out of Googling "Chauncey Bailey", the editor of the weekly Oakland Post who was murdered in broad daylight last week allegedly by a gunman acting on behalf of the interests of the "Your Black Muslim Bakery" of Oakland and, by proxy, what's on the plate that no one wants to look at, the Black Muslim organization at large.

So far, I've been cautious about that last leap.

Yusuf Bey IV, the bakery's owner by way of inheritance from his father, had problems and pressure aplenty before Chauncey Bailey started digging into the affairs of his bakery. There may turn out more fuel for basing the story in family and personal vendetta than in national politics.

We shall see.

Rather than reprise the story, I am inclined to list for a while related stories. One could, of course, Google them up, but I may get a chance here to see how a pre-digested list may work and share with you my reading on the story.

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1. Oppenheim, James S. "From Chauncey Bailey-->Yusuf Bey-->Yusuf Bey IV." Oppenheim Arts & Letters. August 4, 2007.

2. Thompson, Chris. "The Killing of a Journalist." The Village Voice, August 7, 2007.

3. Manley, Martin. "Chauncey Bailey and Oakland's Nation of Islam." Jam Side Down. August 5, 2007.

4. Hitchens, Chrisopher. "Brutality by the Bay: Why Did the Oakland Police Do So Little About Your Black Muslim Bakery's Thuggery?" Slate. August 6, 2007.

5. Vick, Karl. "Slaying stuns Oakland: for some, editor's death shows subversion of black activism." Washingtonpost.com via MSNBC, August 9, 2007.

6. "Chauncey Bailey Remembered as Fearless." KCBS, August 8, 2007.

7. Moore, Galen. "News from My Hometown." In Transit, August 10, 2007.

8. Jones, Carolyn. "Judge orders troubled bakery to liquidate." San Francisco Chronicle, August 11, 2007.

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