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>:
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
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, 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. ____ Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report from Washington; and David Caruso from New York City.
N.S.: The Chronicle published no pictures of the woman Malcolm Shabazz murdered, his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, so I will.
The bar was located in a marginal area of Mexico City, which is saying a lot for Mexico. Some news reports said half-clothed women came running out when authorities arrived.
ReplyDeleteWas it a dive bar?
Or a whorehouse?