Squatting for Black History Month
Free homes. Free license plates. Free everything. That is the plan of the black separatist group called Moorish Nation.
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You may have missed this chapter in Black History Month: In 1787, a bunch of people signed a bunch of agreements — secret and otherwise — that say black people are not required to obey American laws because they are not really citizens of the United States.
Today, members of the Moorish Nation claim this entitles black people to move into empty houses (don’t call it squatting!), create their own license plates, issue their own drivers licenses, print their own property titles and claim sovereign immunity when they get arrested.
All without success. But they keep trying all over the country.
Moorish Nation made its biggest national impression last March, when Abka Re Bey and her six children moved into a $3 million, 10,000 square-foot mansion in Memphis. Abka Re Bey — whose given name is Tabitha Gentry — even filed paperwork with the local Register of Deeds saying she was taking ownership of the property “in the name of Allah, the most high,” said NewsOne, a TV network “for Black America.”
Tabitha Gentry Memphis Tn: Woman Faces Charges For Squatting In Foreclosed Tennessee Mansion | News One
The Washington Post, CBS News and others neglected to mention the religious connection to Islam in their reports on these racially separate squatters.
Abka Re Bey stayed in the mansion a week before the SWAT team came and took her away for trespassing, burglary and theft. “She’s Moorish-American,” said Jarrod Batts to Action News in Memphis after her arraignment. “Why y’all saying she’s a squatter?”
The Washington Post tracked down two officials who say this group is responsible for a lot of mayhem that never makes the newspapers: “I can promise you that every state has had their challenges with these guys,” said Carol Foglesong, a land records official in Orange County, Fla., and past president the National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks.
Kory Flowers also talked to the Post: “It’s going on in every state,” said Flowers, an investigator with the Greensboro, N.C., police and a national expert on sovereign groups. In Bethesda three months later, three members of the Moorish Nation tried the same thing when they moved into a $6 million house with 12 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and two saunas.
When police showed up to haul them off, they said they were members of “the Moorish Nation and had the right to claim the property,” said the local sheriff. In Tampa Bay, police found Zuri Akila Betiti Matawala Zurj-Bey, a grand sheikess in the Moorish Temple of Science of the World, driving with an usual set of license plates: “Moorish American Republic 070117-004.”
That didn’t work out too well either. “I’ve been kidnapped,” she told the Tampa Bay Times in December 2012 at the Pasco County jail where she was incarcerated for a variety of traffic offenses. “I don’t belong here. When you belong to another government, you’re not subject to someone else’s rules and laws. I’m just a missionary. This is a misunderstanding.”
That misunderstanding continues today in Wilmington, Delaware, where they had a lot to choose from: 1,387 of that city’s 22,576 homes are empty. And that does not count houses for sale.
Last month Moorish Nation struck again. And not for the first time in this city of 72,000. This time they invaded a large home on the tree-lined, once majestic and now slightly worn Baynard Boulevard. “They just moved in liked they owned the place,” said Ralph Malatesta, the next door neighbor. “That’s what they said to me anyway and I believed them. A few of them look like they just got out of prison.” A SWAT team ended that soon after. “There were a lot of kids in there too,” Malatesta said.
The Moorish Nation is hardly the only black separatist group in America. On July 1, Chokwe Lumumba was sworn in as Mayor of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. He is a former leader of a group called the Republic of New Afrika that seeks to turn the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina into an independent black nation.
Even Al Jazeera was impressed: The network called Lumumba “America’s most revolutionary mayor.” “Free the Land” is the group’s slogan. In his inauguration address, one of the first things Lumumba did was raise his hand in a clenched fist and proclaim to loud applause from 2500 people: “Free the Land.”
Neither is Moorish Nation the only group of black people squatting. In Detroit in February, a homeowner gone for a few days returned to find her neighbors had moved in, stolen her property, eaten her food, and turned her home into their chill pad where they could use drugs.
Adrea Isom of Fox News in Detroit could hardly contain her incredulity when speaking to the family and friends of the squatters: “Three men had helped themselves to all of her gin and her Seagram’s happy juice,” said Isom. “They cooked up crab legs, shrimp and they even had a turkey in the oven, can you believe it? And while they were fixing their feast they she says they were high as a kite on the chronic.”
Two of the suspects lived next door. The locals were unapologetic and blamed the owner for leaving the house unguarded: “It was like a chill spot,” said one neighbor. “Somebody going to invite you over to smoke some weed and we right next door. Somebody was squatting in that house, the guy that was in there was squatting already, so he was inviting people over, because he was living there.”
“This is Detroit and we will come squat in your house if you’re not home,” said one of the neighbors who also offered the homeowner a few words of advice: “Stay in your home before your copper come up missing.”
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In Mississippi, America’€™s most revolutionary mayor | Al Jazeera America
Moorish squatter arrested, SWAT break into mansion – Mid-South News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | FOX13
Moorish American national’ charged with trying to take mansion – The Washington Post
$3 million mansion ‘squatter’ shouts at judge – Action News 5 – Memphis, Tennessee
myMCPnews – Police Release Photographs of Bethesda Burglary Suspect
New Democrat Mayor Calls For Independent Black Nation Out Of Five Southern States | Right Wing News
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