by 'bro. zayid'
His name was Malcolm Lateef Shabazz.
He was the first grandson of our leader Malcolm X, the
son of Qubilah Shabazz, his second daughter...
When the gov't used a covert operation against his mother
and tore them apart, he developed some of the issues and problems all of our
kids do when we face those vicious kind of racist circumstances. When he was
only 12, he angrily started a fire that accidently took the life of his
legendary grandmother, Betty Bahiyyah Shabazz and did time, very hard time for
that!
In prison, he embraced his grandfather's legacy and began
to pick up the pieces...
Once outside, he studied the martial arts and studied
language speaking French and Arabic and embraced Shia' Islam...
He became a role model for young brothers and began
travelling internationally using his name and the name of his incredible
grandparents as a symbol of international human solidarity! This would include him
daring to travel to Libya with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to express
solidarity with Muammar Gaddafi as he came under fire thanks to a covert
operation Hillary Clinton pushed on Barack Obama!...
He went to Mexico with whom he thought was a friend who
wanted him to express solidarity with workers organizing for better work
conditions. It turned out to be a trap that cost him his life...
We lost him on this day May 9, 1984...
I used to call him ‘Nephew’ for reasons that I hope are
obvious. Baba James Small and I were trying to figure out an organizational
network to support and protect him on those solidarity sojourns before he took that fateful trip to Mexico…
Burns a whole in my soul that we couldn’t put that in
place in time…
Remember the name of the courageous Malcolm Lateef Shabazz,
who left us trying extend the legacy of his incredible family!
X is the Answer!...
Uncle loves you, son…
(c)2017
No comments:
Post a Comment