Dr Yusef Bey Transcends Eurocentric American Culture
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Many people might say he was a bad man, but no one can say he did no good whatsoever, after all, look at the block of businesses he has established on San Pablo Avenue in North Oakland. Where else can one purchase healthy food from an African American business? Where else in the Bay can you buy a loaf of bread baked by black people? Who else will hire convicts, dope fiends, and prostitutes? So Allah will weigh his works on the scale of justice in the judgment hall, as He shall do each one of us. For every ounce of good Dr. Bey has done, he shall be rewarded, and for every ounce of evil he has done, he shall be rewarded.
Like many blacks, he migrated from Texas to Oakland, where he worked in his father's bakery, then later established his own. He joined the Nation of Islam and would eventually become a captain, his brother Billy or Rabb was the minister of the Oakland mosque. Sometimes there was violent competition between the Oakland and San Francisco temples, until Dr. Bey finally focused on his bakery business, holding meetings at the bakery for his employees and the general public.
A Muslim who practiced polygamy, he fathered many children. As he made his transition, he was facing charges of child abuse, although several counts were thrown out because of a recent Supreme Court decision.