Posted on 05/11/2013 2:11:13 AM PDT by Daffynition
he grandson of US political activist Malcolm X has died in Mexico City following a fight in a bar, say Mexican officials.
Malcolm Shabazz, 29, succumbed in hospital to multiple injuries he suffered on Thursday.
Mexico's attorney general's office said an investigation into the incident was under way.
The US state department said that it was in contact with the family and offering appropriate assistance.
Shabazz was discovered with fatal wounds at Plaza Garibaldi, a popular tourist area packed with bars and restaurants, in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.
Miguel Suarez, a union activist who was travelling with Shabazz, said they had been in the country as part of their efforts to advocate more rights for Mexican construction workers in the US.
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I find it interesting that the media won’t say why he was in Mexico. If he was simply vacationing, you’d think they’d mention that.
Looks like "powers that be" were prepping him for the same kind of track they put Obama on.
Mouth wrote more cheques than his ass could cash ....... Bye !
6th paragraph from the top. :)
Gee, I wonder if the US Post Office will put out a commemorative stamp in his honor just like they did for Malcolm ?
http://www.malcolm-x.org/img/abt_stamp.jpg
I read that after, unfortunately.
Now I know why his name sounded familar:
“He was murdered. He was in Mexico City and I believe they attempted to rob him and he didn’t allow it, so they beat him to death and he died on his way to the hospital,” Juan Ruiz, a member of the California-based labor organization Rumec, told TPM. “This is all I can confirm, everything else is under investigation for the meantime.”
Shabazz is the son of Qubilah Shabazz, who was the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In his youth, he set a fire that caused the death of his grandmother. For that crime, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was found guilty of arson, and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility.
Shabazz continued to have trouble with the law throughout his life, The New York Times reported. He pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in 2002 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Just months after his release in 2006, he was arrested again, this time for punching a hole in a store window.
Shabazz is survived by his mother and two daughters.
A monument on the Mall in DC would be nice.
Expect flags at half staff.
Sounds like a simple case of a Mexican thug killing an American thug in a street fight.
Good riddance to trash.
granny burned up real good.
Per Wiki:
Malcolm Shabazz was born in Paris. According to Shabazz, he never met his father. Other sources say Shabazz knew his father, but they had little contact with one another.
When Malcolm was a few months old, he and his mother moved to Los Angeles. A little while later, they moved to New York City and then Philadelphia. One landlord there remembered frequently having to let young Malcolm into the apartment because his mother was not at home.
Malcolm showed some evidence of disturbance as a child. As a three-year-old, he reportedly set fire to his shoes. He brought a knife to school in the third grade. About the same time, he suffered from delusions and was hospitalized for a short time.
During the early 1990s, Malcolm often stayed with his grandmother, Betty, and his aunts in New York, while his mother, Qubilah, lived with various friends.
In 1994, Malcolm moved with his mother to Minneapolis. She was being drawn into a plot to assassinate Louis Farrakhan by an FBI informant, Michael Fitzpatrick. Malcolm saw in Fitzpatrick the father figure he had never known, calling him “my dad”.
In January 1995, Qubilah was charged with trying to hire an assassin to kill Farrakhan. She accepted a plea agreement with respect to the charges, in which she maintained her innocence but accepted responsibility for her actions. Under the terms of the agreement, she was required to undergo psychological counseling and treatment for drug and alcohol abuse for a two-year period in order to avoid a prison sentence. For the duration of her treatment, Malcolm, then ten years old, was sent to live with Betty at her apartment in Yonkers, New York.
Malcolm visited Qubilah in December 1996 in San Antonio, where she was undergoing treatment. She had married, and Malcolm quickly bonded with his stepfather. But the marriage soon ended, and Malcolm and his mother began to fight, sometimes physically. On February 26, she called the police and said she wanted him committed to a mental hospital. After a brief stay, Malcolm was released. In April, he called the police and reported that they had been in a fight. His mother said she was going to place him in foster care. On April 26, Malcolm was sent back to New York to live with his grandmother.
Arson and juvenile detention
On June 1, 1997, Malcolm Shabazz, then twelve years of age, started a fire in Betty Shabazz’s apartment. She suffered burns over 80 percent of her body. The police found Malcolm wandering the streets, barefoot and reeking of gasoline.
Betty Shabazz died of her injuries on June 23, 1997. At a hearing, experts described Malcolm as psychotic and schizophrenic. He was also described as “brilliant but disturbed.” He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for manslaughter and arson, with possible annual extensions until his 18th birthday. Shabazz was released after four years.
In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Shabazz, then aged 18, gave his version of the fire and the events leading up to it. He explained that he had been unhappy living in New York with his grandmother and had started: “being bad, doing anything to get them to send me back to my mother. Then I got the idea to set the fire.” Expressing remorse for the event, Shabazz continued:
I set a fire in the hallway, and I didn’t think the whole thing through thoroughly, but she didn’t have to run through that fire ... There was another way out of the house from her room. I guess what she thought was I was stuck, and she had to run and get me because it was in front of my room as well. She ran through the fire. I did not picture that happening, that she would do that.
Expressing regret for his actions, stating that he would sit on his jail cot and ask for a sign of forgiveness from his dead grandmother. Shabazz said:
I just wanted her to know I was sorry and I wanted to know she accepted my apology, that I didn’t mean it. But I would get no response, and I really wanted that response.
In the same interview, Shabazz also dismissed the child psychiatrist’s diagnosis of him at his trial that he was a paranoid schizophrenic, saying that he had only “made up” a story about hearing voices in his childhood “to get attention.”
Adulthood
Following his release, Shabazz lived for a time with his aunt, Ilyasah Shabazz. He was arrested in 2002 for stealing $100. He pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Shabazz was arrested again in 2006, for punching a hole in a store’s glass window.
In 2010, Shabazz made the Hajj to Mecca. Shabazz was fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. He taught English while living in Syria.
In February 2013, Iranian state-controlled Press TV reported that Shabazz had been arrested by the FBI while en route to Iran. The story was widely reported, but, two days later, Shabazz’s family announced that the Press TV report was incorrect. They said Shabazz had been arrested, but his arrest had nothing to do with the FBI or Iran.
Well, good for him. Best news in a few days!
Miguel Suarez, a union activist who was travelling with Shabazz, said they had been in the country as part of their efforts to advocate more rights for Mexican construction workers in the US.
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More than likely they were roaming the whorehouses, and drug dens.
Two daughters, but no wife? What, did he burn her up too?
Sic Semper Bro?
Wow....a single tear drop formed in my eye....
I always cry at a happy ending...
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