Researching York’s movements, I learned that he went from teaching his brand of Islam in Bushwick to moving his congregation to the Catskills in upstate New York in 1993 before heading to Georgia that same year as a cowboy, then as the Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, and ultimately as an Egyptian god and interplanetary citizen. I pondered the fact that more than twenty years after my mother and I left Ansaaru, York still had enough supporters to fill a small town. His teachings seemed to change as much as his name and location, but antiwhite hate and
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