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Monday, May 20, 2013

Racism, Sexism, Iron and Irony at Northwestern University

Racism, Sexism, Iron and Irony at Northwestern University

By Nicholas Stix

 

I posted the following comment to the article below:

 

Let's see. A heterosexual, white male who is devoted to discriminating against, disenfranchising, dispossessing and destroying heterosexual, white males sought a job in which he would have been empowered and tasked to do just that, but was discriminated against, because he's a heterosexual, white male? And people on this thread are defending him, arguing that he should have gotten the job, because he was the most qualified to oppress heterosexual, white males? You guys must be card-carrying, broken-glass Republicans! Take your irony supplement, folks!

 

The best comment I saw follows:

 

o    Butch Fernandez · FollowFollowing · Top Commenter

Yeah, let's even the score. The Cubs should be allowed to win the World series a few times whether they "earn" the right or not. So you say this is comparing apples to oranges. Really--is not the NW student government not rejecting all apples because they only want an orange?

 

 

 

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By Timothy Dionisopoulos, on May 17, 2013

A student's bid to become associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University was derailed last Wednesday over accusations that his status as a white heterosexual male would make it impossible for him to perform the position's duties.

Stephen Piotrkowski was apparently denied a position on Northwestern's student government because he is a "heterosexual white male."

 

The Wednesday hearing began with student senator Jesse Seitz reportedly asking the nominee, Stephen Piotrkowski, how he could possibly interact and serve a minority community as a white male.

Piotrkowski reportedly attempted to appeal to the Student Senate on the grounds that he identifies as a religious minority and has a lesbian sister, but it was to no avail.

After about thirty more minutes of questioning, the Senate voted to block Piotrkowski's appointment.

Ian Coley, a student on the Associate Student Government Diversity and Inclusion Committee, later said white heterosexual males are not qualified to hold the position of associate vice president of diversity and inclusion.

"This university is not ready, in any capacity, for a heterosexual white male to be in charge in any way of diversity and inclusion," said Coley, according to the Daily Northwestern.

"I don't know if any university is," he reportedly added.

However, Hayley Stevens, the outgoing associate vice president of diversity and inclusion told the Daily Northwestern she supported Piotrkowski's nomination, adding, "he was our best candidate."

An online post also indicates that Piotrkowski previously served as a member of the Northwestern Inclusion Task Force, a body created in 2012 to help advocate for diversity on campus.

Alan Cubbage, Vice President for University Relations, told Campus Reform on Wednesday the administration does not directly comment on decisions made by the SGA.

Northwestern University administrators involved in the student government process and incoming student government President Ani Ajith also did not respond to requests for comment.

Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @TimPDion

The Obama Record (Poster)

 



A tip ‘o the hate to Michael O'Brien and You Might be a Conservative.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013

George thomas sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for murders of channon christian & christopher newsom

Thomas was only sentenced for the murders, not the rapes, kidnapping, robberies, etc. There will be a second sentencing hearing on june 4. Thomas' fate now rests in judge walter kurtz' hands. If judge kurtz makes thomas' sentences consecutive, he can make his sentence virtually lwop, but in practice there is only life until parole.
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Sentencing hearing for george thomas


Sniffles and tears quietly filled the courtroom, as deena and gary christian talked about having and losing their babies has meant to them, george thomas' mother, bridget pleaded for "mercy and grace," and defense attorney steven johnson sought, one more time, to subvert justice.

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george thomas found guilty on all 46 counts!

Sentencing hearing to begin at 3 p.m. today.

Still No Verdict in George Thomas Re-Trial

 

War crime victims Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom



A Knox County mug shot of war crime defendant George Thomas


[Previously, by this writer:

"The Knoxville Horror: The Crime and the Cover-Up";

"This Case is About What George Thomas Did Not Do": Playing the Race Card, and Double Misrepresentation: Day One of George Thomas' Knoxville Horror Re-Trial"; and

"Big-Butt White Women, the Mysterious Moving Gun, and the Non-Sleeping Jurors: Day 2 of the George Thomas Knoxville Horror Re-Trial."]
]


By Nicholas Stix

After each side completed its closing argument and rebuttal, Judge Walter Kurtz spent over an hour reading his instructions ti the jury, with detailed separate instructions for each of the 46 counts. The jury then went to deliberate.

Your trusty correspondent kept vigil at the courthouse, along with the families and friends of victims Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Most of the other reporters had left before noon, when Judge Kurtz began reading his instructions to the jury, and only returned around dinner time.

There was an easy camaraderie between some of the reporters who had covered the story for years, and who would drop in on the families, who were trying to keep things as light as they could. As the new kid on the block, this writer kept a modest distance, on a set of cushion-seats about eight feet away.

At one point, Mr. Newsom dropped in on me, gave me a lengthy interview about Christopher, and even shared his strawberry shortcake with me. Later, some of his family, who had brought chicken tenders and sauce, also shared their food with me, and even asked about where I was from. Very kind people of all ages. Devout Christians.

At 5:52 p.m., several court officers delivered approximately 18 pizzas to the jury.

At 8 p.m., court officers sent us home for the night, as the jury was heading to their hotel for the night. Actually, a veteran local reporter, whose name I don't know, acted as a conduit. She said they said that we needn't come back until 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

george thomas trial knoxville horror

It's all in the jury's hands now. they've been deliberating since about
1:50 p.m.

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Big-Butt White Women, the Mysterious Moving Gun, and the Non-Sleeping Jurors: Day 2 of the George Thomas Knoxville Horror Re-Trial

 

War crime victims Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom



A Knox County mug shot of war crime defendant George Thomas


[Previously, by this writer:

"The Knoxville Horror: The Crime and the Cover-Up"; and

"This Case is About What George Thomas Did Not Do": Playing the Race Card, and Double Misrepresentation: Day One of George Thomas' Knoxville Horror Re-Trial."]


By Nicholas Stix

On Tuesday, among other witnesses, several white women who had known George Thomas testified.

Daphne Sutton had been Lemaricus Davidson's white girlfriend. They had met when she had served him at a Sonic restaurant, where she'd been a waitress.

Sonic restaurants are a chain of Southern, mostly Tennessee-based, retro-50s'-style restaurants where waitresses serve customers outside of the restaurant in the latters' cars.

She testified that she had lived with Davidson for a few months in the fall and early winter at the house on (2316) Chipman Street, where they were both on the lease. At first, her two small children were in the house with them, but when she left him and then returned to him around Thanksgiving, 2006, she left them with her parents.

The problem was, "He kept putting his hands on me."

On January 5, she moved out again. Early that day, Davidson had choked her, and thrown her against a wall.

The next night, Davidson would carjack, kidnap, and gang-rape Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, and murder Newsom. (He and his cohorts would continue torturing and raping Channon Christian for another 12-14 hours, before jamming her bound body in a fetal position, covered in plastic bags, in a big garbage can, to slowly asphyxiate.)

However, it came out through the testimony of Sutton and other witnesses, that before, during, and after the crime, Lemaricus Davidson was obsessively seeking to sleep with a white woman, whether with consent, or via the most brutal rape imaginable. At times, he was leaving the house on Chipman Street, with Channon Christian bound and gagged there, confident that he could rely on his cohorts in the house to watch her. This also emphasizes, yet again, how ridiculous the claims of Letalvis Cobbins, Vanessa Coleman, and George Thomas are, that they were somehow prisoners in that house.

Davidson was leaving messages with Sutton's girlfriend, and appearing at the house where Sutton was staying.

Taylor Shattucks was a white girlfriend of Daphne Sutton's. She testified that on Friday, January 5, 2007, Davidson called her, saying that he had no place to stay, and asking if he could stay with her. (He was lying; he still had the house on Chipman Street.) She told him no, because, as she explained, if her boyfriend found out, "It would mess me up with my boyfriend."

Davidson was seeking to get into Shattucks' pants, and its not clear that Shattucks would have minded that, if her boyfriend hadn't been around.

When they were going to and from the witness stand, I noticed something that Sutton and Shattucks both had in common: Strikingly large behinds for white women.

Sutton, 27, is buxom yet trim, and was dressed in a modest knit dress or top with horizontal black and gray stripes, and black pants or leotards, but one part of her anatomy jumped out at you.

Shattucks, who I believe was the same age, and also has at least two children, was also modestly dressed, and a little chubby, but also had an ample derriere.

It is no secret the many black men have a thing for big butt women.

To return to Sutton, she eventually "made up" with Davidson. On the night of Sunday, January 7, just hours after he had repeatedly raped Channon Christian, and while she was slowly asphyxiating in a garbage can, Davidson was having sex with Daphne Sutton.

She testified that on the morning of Monday, January 8, she lay in bed next to Davidson at her girlfriend's house, the girlfriend handed her a cellphone on which Sutton's mother told her that the police were searching for Davidson. Sutton testified that although Davidson couldn't hear what her mother had said, he sensed as much.

Another white friend of the crew, Natosha Hayes, who lived in Lebanon, Kentucky, and in whose home Letalvis Cobbins, Vanessa Coleman, and George Thomas were arrested on January 11, that a woman who cleaned house for her found a silver, .22 caliber revolver (presumably Cobbins') under a bed on January 12, even though police had searched the house on the 11th. Hayes turned the gun over to the police.

Were the police who searched the house on January 11th incompetent? Had they planted the weapon? Had Hayes or someone else had the weapon secreted elsewhere, and placed it under the bed, after the police left? Neither side pursued the matter.

I had a few brief conversations with Chris Newsom's father, Hugh, and one with his mother Mary, during breaks and at the end of the day. At one point, they remarked that the jurors were of better quality than the ones previously bused in from Davidson County. These jurors, at least were staying awake, while several of the previous Davidson jurors often dozed off in court.

However, the prosecution is not putting on a muscular case this time around, while the defense is going for the jugular, so that wakeful or no, this jury presently is in danger of being hung, or even voting to acquit Thomas.



"And the Answer is, for $500, 'Because He's Gay'"

By Nicholas Stix

What is, "'Andrew Sullivan' Racist 'Bell Curve'—How Does He Get Away With It?"



Tuesday, May 14, 2013

"This Case is About What George Thomas Did Not Do": Playing the Race Card, and Double Misrepresentation: Day One of George Thomas' Knoxville Horror Re-Trial

 

War crime victims Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom



A Knox County mug shot of war crime defendant George Thomas


By Nicholas Stix

"Fuck that white girl!" said defense attorney Steven Johnson in his opening statement to the jury Monday, in the seventh Knoxville Horror trial, for the racially-motivated, January 7, 2007 rape-torture-murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, by a crew of up to seven blacks led by Lemaricus Davidson.

"That phrase, 'Fuck that white girl!' is being used for one reason, and one reason at all: To engender an emotional response. To distract you."

Johnson insinuated that Thomas had never used the phrase at all, and that a detective had just made it up, 17 months after the fact.

There's just one little problem with Johnson's statement: The prosecution did not bring the racially-charged statement into the courtroom. Lead prosecutor Takisha Fitzgerald ("TK") never said, "Fuck that white girl," in her opening statement, which preceded Johnson's. Rather, she quoted the detective as saying Thomas had told him, "Fuck that girl."

Thus, Fitzgerald misrepresented Thomas, and Johnson lied about Fitzgerald.

Johnson also misled the jury through a lecture on the concept of "criminal responsibility" (aka, "acting in concert"), that broke it up into seven requirements, whereupon he asserted that a conviction could only be reached if every single requirement were met.

He paired his dishonest analysis of criminal responsibility with a legally irrelevant appeal to emotion, arguing that George Thomas was doing what he had learned growing up in Detroit, in order "to survive": "He kept his head down." "He zoned out." "He minded his own business."

The problem is that most blacks reject the principle of criminal responsibility, at least where fellow blacks are concerned, and there are five black women on the panel.

It is with those black women in mind that Johnson gave his dishonest lecture, and made his pleas to emotion.

Building on the previous blocks, Johnson kept repeating that witnesses that had seen Lemaricus Davidson had not seen George Thomas, and that while DNA evidence tied Lemaricus Davidson and his half-brother to the crimes, Letalvis Cobbins, but no DNA evidence tied Thomas to the crime.

Under true criminal responsibility, Johnson's caveats are irrelevant, but in his Bizarro World criminal responsibility, they are unanswerable. Indeed, if he were right, there would be no grounds for charging Thomas with anything.

Thus, Thomas' defense team has a three-pronged defense:

1. Mislead the jury regarding the rules of criminal responsibility;

2. Play the race card; and

3. Establish that no one had seen Thomas, or found any DNA evidence tying him directly to the rapes and murders.

My friend and colleague, David in TN, who was also at the trial said, "Last time Johnson tried that, it failed. ADAs Fitzgerald and Leland Price hammered it home.

Let us hope they succeed once more.

I Heart Knoxville (Knoxville Horror)

I Heart Knoxville
By Nicholas Stix

I was sitting in a saloon early tonight on Downtown Knoxville's Gay Street (no, not that kind of gay!), slugging down gelati, and called The Boss' and The Boss' Boss. I say, "I've got two beautiful new mistresses, sitting on either side of me."

She laughs.

Her Boss says, "I love you, Dad." I respond in kind. Overhearing my conversation, one of the lovely damsels at the next table, each of them about 48, shouts out, "We love you!"

On the way there, I was directed by two other bodacious babes in shorts, also about 48, one dark-haired, the other blonde. I ask them if they're coming from, or heading to the gym. "We're cleaning ladies heading to work," one explains. "Well, you must be the prettiest two cleaning ladies anywhere." They are very appreciative.

An ungenerous reader might assert that they were only nice because I was flirting with them. Au contraire; I only flirted with them, after they were nice to me.

After the gelato bar, I settle in at another saloon with tables outside. This gorgeous, sweet girl with a peaches-and-cream complexion takes care of me.

I spend a couple of hours kibitzing with an old busker, whose dog, Jake, immediately adopts me. A Young lady at the next table was friends with Channon Christian, and gives me her e-mail, so we can talk later.

When I'm about to go, I ask the waitress for directions back to my hotel, warning her that I have no sense of direction, ale or no ale. She writes out an idiot-proof map for me, and I set out, with it leading me home.

Now, a killjoy would say the waitress was just nice to me, in hopes of getting a big tip, but when I used to hang out in Manhattan, if you were a convicted white male and suspected heterosexual, most waitresses would be nasty to you... in hopes of getting a big tip.

Under imminent Sharia law, I can take four wives, right? Or is it seven?

The only bad part about visiting Knoxville? A savage double-murder brought me here.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Jason Richwine: The First Washington Post Hit-Job

Posted by Nicholas Stix


Heritage study co-author opposed letting in immigrants with low IQs

The Heritage Foundation made something of a splash with its study suggesting that immigration reform will cost the public trillions. Past work by one of its co-authors helps put that piece in context.

Jason Richwine is relatively new to the think tank world. He received his PhD in public policy from Harvard in 2009, and joined Heritage after a brief stay at the American Enterprise Institute. Richwine's doctoral dissertation is titled “IQ and Immigration Policy”; the contents are well summarized in the dissertation abstract:

The statistical construct known as IQ can reliably estimate general mental ability, or intelligence. The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations. The consequences are a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market. Selecting high-IQ immigrants would ameliorate these problems in the U.S., while at the same time benefiting smart potential immigrants who lack educational access in their home countries.

Richwine’s dissertation asserts that there are deep-set differentials in intelligence between races. While it’s clear he thinks it is partly due to genetics — “the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ” — he argues the most important thing is that the differences in group IQs are persistent, for whatever reason. He writes, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”

Toward the end of the thesis, Richwine writes that though he believes racial differences in IQ to be real and persistent, one need not agree with that to accept his case for basing immigration on IQ. Rather than excluding what he judges to be low-IQ races, we can just test each individual’s IQ and exclude those with low scores. “I believe there is a strong case for IQ selection,” he writes, “since it is theoretically a win-win for the U.S. and potential immigrants.” He does caution against referring to it as IQ-based selection, saying that using the term “skill-based” would “blunt the negative reaction.”

That rhetorical strategy is reflected in Heritage’s current work on immigration. His and Rector’s report recommends greatly reducing “low-skilled” immigration and increasing “high-skilled” immigration. “The legal immigration system should be altered to greatly reduce the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and increase the number of new entrants with high levels of education and skills that are in demand by U.S. firms,” they write.

Richwine also invoked skill considerations in arguing against the “diversity visa” program. “A better mix of selection factors would give more emphasis to skill-based immigration, but the diversity lottery involves no selection at all. It does not make the workforce more skilled, reunite families, or further any humanitarian goals,” he writes. On this point, he's in tune with the rest of Heritage, which has consistently supported expanding high-skilled immigration and limiting low-skilled immigration.

Update: Mike Gonzalez, VP for Communications at Heritage, emails: “This is not a work product of The Heritage Foundation. Its findings in no way reflect the positions of The Heritage Foundation. Nor do the findings affect the conclusions of our study on the cost of amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer.”


Sunday, May 12, 2013

11 Reasons Why Olivia Sprauer, aka Victoria James Really Lost Her Teaching Job!

 



[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

“Olivia Sprauer: Too Hot to Teach High School English?”]





By Nicholas Stix

In a May 7 puff piece, Olivia Sprauer didn’t level with the AOL-Huffington Post’s Simon McCormack, and he didn’t level with his readers. McCormack used the most modest picture of Sprauer’s portfolio, in order to make her principal, who had fired her, look like some sort of Victorian. The portfolio, however, leaves no doubt that Sprauer’s “modeling” was entirely improper for a schoolmarm.








Two other matters also raise serious questions about Sprauer’s fitness to teach. Her shape is not her own. It’s one thing for a school teacher to get a boob job, as a private matter between her and her lover, and an entirely different matter to be getting a boob job, in order to be portrayed in “modeling” photographs for the whole world to see. The other matter is her claim that she does “glamour style photography.” “Glamour” photography is a British tabloid euphemism for porno modeling.








Thus, Sprauer’s boss was obligated to let her go, or endure a scandal.





















L’Affare Jason Richwine: ‘We All Have the Same IQ, but Racists Have Lower IQs’

By Nicholas Stix

Aka, ‘All pigs are equal, but some pigs are less equal than others.’

Steve Sailer explains.

Malcolm Shabazz Photos

Photo By Xiomara Michel/Associated Press
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Malcolm Shabazz, 28, had run into trouble in the past. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Shabazz family, Xiomara Michel)

Photo: Xiomara Michel, Associated Press / The Shabazz Family

Malcolm Shabazz, Grandson of Malcolm X, Murdered in Mexico City Dive: Son of X' Daughter, Qrazy Qubilah, was a Murderer, Gang-Banger, and Robber; Associated Press/Houston Chronicle Publish Orwellian Obituary

 

Qrazy Qubilah Shabazz, with radical attorney William Kunstler, r, circa 1995. Qubilah escaped prison by playing the crazy card, not to mention enjoying racial, sexual, and celebrity brat privilege.

 

 

[Previously at <EM>WEJB/NSU</EM>:

 

"Karma's a Bitch: Malcolm X' Grandson and Namesake, Who Murdered X' Widow, Murdered in Mexico City; 4 CNN Reporters Somehow Forgot to Mention Killer's Criminal History."</a>]

 

 

Posted by Nicholas Stix

 

Thanks to the reader who sent me this bizarre article, and observed,

 


From the comments.

Oh well... Like other readers have already pointed out, Mr. Shabazz's teardrop tattoo makes it very difficult to sympathize with the victim.

So, he was a stereotypical registered Democrat?

How does this make him unique?

Young.

Black.

Male.

Dead at the hand of violence.

Almost sounds like a stereotype.

as soon as the Mariachi's can find enough words in Spanish to rhyme with Shabazz maybe he'll have his own Corrido..

Oh, and let's not forget the pencil thin moustache.

Now there's a stereotype.

 

Below are some of the best Chronicle reader comments from the first 50, followed by the article, with my bracketed translations from the Newspeak.

 

"Between this and the one hit wonder rapper's death ... how will we ever be able to go on? We need more Kardashians and Twin Peaks."

 

"Apple didn't fall far from the tree"

"Gee!,..I wonder if i will get a huge article written for me when i pass away?"

 

Q-ball the tenth needs to go down there and "investigate." [That's a reference to notorious embezzler Quanell X, the head of the local New Black Panther Party division of

 

the genocidal, mass-murdering Nation of Islam</a>.]

 

"Why have I never heard of the first nine Malcolm's and why was Malcolm x's grandson not named Malcolm xii."

"Now he can tell grandma he's sorry himself, on his way to hell."

"Some friend that Suarez. He should have known to keep the American away from the shady spots.
I go to Mexico City often. It is beautiful but dangerous. More so because it seems so safe."

"This clown was a violent death wandering around looking for a place to happen and apparently found it, in of all places Mexico City, in a dive bar, go figure"

"The thug got what he deserved. Another low life eliminated, though someone in his family will continue to collect welfare and foodstamps, and he will vote straight democrat for the next 80 years."

"With his background, one would think he had a little more street smarts."

"I bet he doesn't do it again."

"Sounds like he was too deep in the thug life to find the right path or stay on it if he did. There's something seriously wrong with people that proudly display a teardrop tattoo under their eye. A remorseful person who changed would have it removed instead of spending all that money traveling. Guess somebody else gets to get one now and wear it for him."

 

"Ghetto genes are hard to shake."

 

"Travelled to Libya, Syria, almost Iran, and most dangerous of all....Mexico."

"What's next? Rodman served as North Korean barbecue?"

 

"If he wanted to live like the most interesting man in the world, he should have been Malcolm XX."

 

"It is what it is! Fair the well ,..see ya in hell!"

 

And finally—drum roll—the obligatory remark from a black racist, in support of a dead black thug:

"Sounds like he was try'n to turn his life around and help others. Who knows what really happened in that bar, but we know an American was murdered and the perp must be brought to justice!" [Suddenly, he's an "American." Otherwise, he'd be an "African."]

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Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico City

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press, By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press | May 10, 2013 | Updated: May 11, 2013 12:32am

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Malcolm Shabazz, 28, had run into trouble in the past. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Shabazz family, Xiomara Michel)

Photo: Xiomara Michel, Associated Press / The Shabazz Family


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The Shabazz Family

N.S.: The Chronicle published no pictures of the woman Malcolm Shabazz murdered, his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, so I will.

 

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The young Betty Shabazz

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Betty Shabazz, late in life

 

       

·         Malcolm Shabazz, 28, had run into trouble in the past. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Shabazz family, Xiomara Michel)

Photo: Xiomara Michel, Associated Press / The Shabazz Family

Photo: Mayra Beltran, Houston Chronicle [N.S.: ?]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28.

City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City.

Much like his grandfather, Shabazz spent his youth in and out of trouble. At 12, he set a fire in his grandmother's apartment, a blaze that resulted in the death of Malcolm X's widow. [English translation: He murdered his grandmother.] After four years in juvenile detention, Shabazz was later sent back to prison on attempted robbery and assault charges.

In recent years, the first male heir of Malcolm X seemed to seek redemption, saying he was writing a memoir and traveling around the world speaking out against youth violence. [There is no evidence of his having sought "redemption." He continued doing evil, supporting criminals.] Before his trip to Mexico, he reached out to a group of [criminal] Mexican construction workers in the U.S. and then visited in Mexico with a leader who had been deported.

Malcolm X, who inspired books and the 1992 Hollywood movie named after him, was shot to death as he delivered a speech in a Harlem ballroom in 1965. Shabazz's mother was only 4 at the time.

The Shabazz family said in a statement they were saddened to hear of the death of Malcolm X's grandson.

"To all who knew him, he offered kindness, encouragement and hope for a better tomorrow," said the statement. [Only in Bizarro World.] "We will miss him."

[Criminal] Labor activist Miguel Suarez, who was traveling with Shabazz, told The Associated Press that his friend was beaten up at a bar near Plaza Garibaldi, a downtown square that is home to Mexico City's mariachis.

Plaza Garibaldi is popular with tourists, but the pair were at a bar across the street from the plaza in an area of rough dive bars tourists are warned against going to.

Suarez said he and Shabazz were lured to the bar on Wednesday night by a young woman who made conversation with the American in English. The Palace bar is on one of Mexico City's busiest avenues. [What kind of "friend" were you, Suarez?]

"We were dancing with the girls and drinking," said Suarez. Then the owner of the bar wanted them ["Them"? Who, besides Shabazz, was "them"?] to pay a $1,200 bar tab, alleging that they should pay for music, drinks and the girls' companionship.

"We pretty much got hassled," he said. "A short dude came with a gun." [Not "hassled," as one Chronicle reader pointed out, but hustled.]

Suarez said he was taken by the man to a separate room. [Another reader suspected that Suarez had set up Shabazz. Why else would he be separated, and let off without a beating?] Shabazz stayed in the hall. Suarez said he heard a violent commotion in the hall and escaped from the room and the bar altogether as he saw half-naked girls running away, picking up their skirts from the dance floor.

Minutes later, Suarez came back in a cab to look for Shabazz and found him on the ground outside the bar severely injured.

"He was in shock. His face was messed up," said Suarez. "He was alive."

"I grabbed him, and I called the cops," said Suarez, who was recently deported from the United States.

He said he took Shabazz to a hospital but his friend died hours later of blunt-force injuries.

Suarez said Shabazz had traveled to Mexico to support him and his movement advocating for more rights for [criminal] construction workers. He crossed the border from San Diego to Tijuana with Suarez's mother and then the pair took a bus all the way to Mexico City.

"We were planning to go to Teotihuacan, to see the Aztec pyramids," he said.

U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell did not offer details on whether they are working with Mexican investigators.

"We've been in contact with family members and have been providing appropriate... assistance," Ventrell said. "At their request, we have no further comment at this time." [How does the family get a veto right over public information about a crime, let alone a murder?]

Ruth Clark, Shabazz's godmother, said that her heart was heavy, but that she believes he is now "among angels." [In hell, is more like it.]

"Malcolm is part of a welcoming kingdom, sharing his bright smile, intelligence, and wisdom." [Wisdom? This woman sounds as evil as he was.]

Shabazz was born on Oct. 8, 1984 to Qubilah Shabazz, one of six daughters of Malcolm X and his wife Betty Shabazz.

In June 1997, Malcolm Shabazz set the fire at his grandmother Betty Shabazz's home. She died from severe burns, and he served four years in juvenile detention.

He later expressed regret for his actions, telling The New York Times in 2003 that he would sit on his jail cot and ask for a sign of forgiveness from his dead grandmother.

"I just wanted her to know I was sorry and I wanted to know she accepted my apology, that I didn't mean it," he said. "But I would get no response, and I really wanted that response."

Despite the encouragement and support by his family's numerous supporters in New York, he struggled. He joined the Bloods street gang and after moving to the small city of Middletown, near New York's Catskills region, he had additional legal scrapes [English translation: He continued committing crimes.]

Shabazz also served time on a 2002 attempted robbery conviction, and was released in 2005. In 2006, he pleaded guilty to criminal mischief for smashing the window of a Yonkers doughnut shop.

More recently, Shabazz had taken on public speaking engagements and traveled, describing himself as a human rights activist. On his Facebook profile, he said he was attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. [So, crime does pay!]

Yet his entanglements with law enforcement continued. ["Entanglements"?]

In one of the last posts on his blog, in March, Shabazz had complained that FBI agents had recently questioned him about his international [sic] travels. He also accused officers with the Middletown police department of harassing him since the fall, and said an arrest in the city over the winter prevented him from traveling to Iran in February to participate in a film festival. [What about the FBI?]

Shabazz also wrote about traveling to Damascus, Syria to study and to Libya as part of a delegation of Americans who met with Muammar Gaddafi, prior to his ouster and death.

Police officials in Middletown didn't return phone messages Friday. An FBI spokesman in New York had no immediate comment.

He proudly embraced the legacy of his grandfather, one of the most influential Black people in history who had a more radical, angry approach than Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent movement in the 1950s and into the 1960s.

On his Twitter page, Shabazz posted a picture of himself mimicking the famous photograph of his grandfather, peering out at [sic] a window with a rifle in one hand.

"Grandson, name-sake and first male heir of the greatest revolutionary leader of the 20th century," he wrote.

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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report from Washington; and David Caruso from New York City.