Talk:Your Black Muslim Bakery

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I believe that the killing is starting to get a bit out of hand on this article while the majority of it should be placed on the Chauncey Bailey article instead. Should we just summarize it on this article while getting in more detail on the other?--Hourick 03:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. If Broussard was just a loose cannon, then I would say so yes. But he and his actions seem integral to the whole organization, such as it has become. It seems to be heading into a wider conspiracy. A little parsing a bit at a time doesn't hurt. But the source articles keep coming, so I keep including, and it's not yet clear where it's all going to end. But it's your call on how you want to edit, of course. It's a unique thing, a big legit business, with loads of extreme street thuggery. Steven Russell 06:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Broussard, you need to tread very carefully there, and keep in mind that he is only a suspect in Bailey's murder (has he even been charged?), and therefore is innocent until proven guilty. And given the problems with the Oakland police investigation, one doesn't have much confidence that they even have the right guy. For more on this if you're interested, I recommend Douglas Allen-Taylor's writings on the subject in the Berkeley Daily Planet. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 19:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I think an adding to the summery IS required and then adding to the other article. In fact, I guess of "Main artle" about the killing should be included. --Hourick 00:55, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

As it turns out, it does not seem to have been a legit business, more of a cross between an organized crime syndicate and a cult. The rapes, murders, etc., seem to be endemic to the organization. I've edited the lead in light of this because I don't think it's appropriate to talk of a crime boss intending to help blacks with self-empowerment. We'll never know his intent for certain, but from his actions he had anything but altruism in mind. Some of the article needs to be edited to avoid up-to-the-minute style reportage of developments in the ongoing investigation. Instead of saying that police "are looking for" something or that something is not known, we should keep in mind that those comments stay in the article and get read a year later once it's all old news. Wikidemo (talk) 16:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I added a ref from the Oakland Tribune in 1974 which stated it was the "largest Bay Area bakery specializing exclusively in natural food products." Thus it was a "legit business" and was prominent early in the "natural foods" movement in addition to whatever went on behind the scenes. Edison (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

That is quite credible; their products were sold in the 1990s all over the Bay Area, as far down the Peninsula as Palo Alto (at the now-defunct Palo Alto Co-op). +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 18:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

They were quite tasty too. They were legit in the sense of baking bread and sweet treats and selling them, but the corruption and violence were apparently endemic if not intrinsic to the organization and its principals. In that way it is reasonable to talk about its business operations but it is harder to make statements about the larger mission or purpose of the organization, its goals, etc., and we have to be careful about sources that reported on it before the truth came out (or conversely, sources reporting unproven or unconfirmed theories about the crimes). We may never know. Wikidemo (talk) 19:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree. My overall take on the bakery is that it probably started out as a legitimate and earnest attempt at black economic self-sufficiency, but over the years became corrupted and devolved into internecine fights over power and money, both of which were available to them in large quantities (due to the clueless generosity of local politicians).

Another thing to keep in mind is that they weren't really Muslims; most real Muslims laugh at their odd mish-mash of Islam, Christianity, black nationalism and just plain weirdness. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 23:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

My take on it is that it was a racket from the start, just like Scientology. Once offspring started to really how much money they could make off of the gig, the violence quickly spiraled out of control.Ndriley97 (talk) 18:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

"Black Muslim Bakery Security" bus in Google StreetView

In a surprising coincidence, the Black Muslim Bakery Security bus is in Google StreetView. parked in front of Aladdin's Bail Bonds in San Francisco, across from the Hall of Justice on Bryant St. Big, very clear pictures. --John Nagle (talk) 17:57, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

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Article title

I propose moving the article to Controversies surrounding Your Black Muslim Bakery, since that's what essentially all of the article is actually about. 202.155.85.18 (talk) 09:48, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Needs some serious review

The last couple paragraphs of the article don't make much sense as they stand. It looks like they were written as events unfolded, and someone made a hasty edit to update it in 2011, but didn't check to make sure that they were actually updating everything. For example, this: "On August 7, 2007, Broussard was arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court, charged with the murder of Bailey, and also charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and with having a prior felony conviction from San Francisco. He continues to be held without bail, and is scheduled to enter a plea on August 13, 2007" That's six years ago, whatever was going to happen on August 13 is a known quantity right now, so shouldn't it be there?

There are a few bits of subjectivity surfacing through the article, but they are minor, and this mess at the end is not minor. Lucy Kemnitzer (talk) 07:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Lucy Kemnitzer