Yahweh ben Yahweh (27 October 1935-7 May 2007) was the founder of the Nation of Yahweh black supremacist group.
Biography[]
Hulon Mitchell Jr. was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma in 1935, the son of a Pentecostal minister. He served in the US army before attending law school and joining the Nation of Islam in Atlanta as "Hulon X." He left the NOI in the late 1960s to become a faith-healing Christian preacher, and, in 1978, he gathered members of Miami's Black Hebrew Israelite congregations and founded the Nation of Yahweh in Liberty City. Mitchell claimed that God and all his prophets were Black and that he would spread knowledge of true Black history to his followers. He also characterized whites and Jews as infidels, devils, and oppressors while claiming that he was the son of God. While his business and charity efforts earned him respect in the community and led to the creation of Yahweh ben Yahweh Day on 7 October 1990, he was indicted on RICO charges a month later after his followers were found to have killed more than 12 "apostates." Ben Yahweh served 11 years in prison before a check fraud conviction in California led to an additional 25-year sentence. He was paroled in 2001 and died in 2007.