Friday, October 23, 2009
BART Hires Alleged Torturer/Deadbeat
Business / Crime / People / Politics / Transportation Robert Gammon — Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM
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In a major WTF, in a week full of WTFs, the Trib reports that BART has hired Nedir Bey, a former top official for the disgraced Your Black Muslim Bakery who allegedly tortured a man and then never repaid a $1.1 million loan from the City of Oakland. The BART board of directors gave Bey's company, Solar Eclipse, half of a $1.5 million contract for lighting improvements at Twelfth Street Station in Oakland and the North Berkeley Station after Bey complained that he had been wrongly disqualified from bidding on the contract. Bey's supporters also accused BART of racism because it has a history of not hiring minority contractors.
Bey was accused in 1994 of torturing an Oakland man. He later pleaded no contest to a felony false-imprisonment charge. In 1996, he also received a $1.1 million loan from the city with the help of then Councilwoman Natalie Bayton. But then Bey never repaid the loan. According to the Trib, Bayton is now listed as the corporate secretary for Bey's company, Solar Eclipse, which was just hired by BART.
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Congratulations to Nedir Bey! Mr. Robert Gammon to pass judgment on a person that you obviously do not know personally is an insult. This is a nation of slavery and racism and the dominant culture is still trying to keep other cultures down.
Let it go! Do your research and get to know people for who they are. Mr. Gammon do you not have any faults of your own? Have you taken time to find the good things that this man has provided to the community? How many jobs, housing, and mental health services have you provided personally to anyone in the community?
Get your facts straight before you slander someone name Mr. Robert Gammon.
What fact are you pissed about? The one about him torturing another man, or the one about not paying back a loan from a city with serious budget problems.
Way to chalk it all up to racism too. That was super classy.
This story isn't really even about Nadir Bey.
It's about Carole Ward-Allen, Lynette Sweet and Bob Franklin. They are our BART Board representatives, and they are the people we need to remember to vote out of office at the next election.
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