Re: [Marxism] The Missing Malcolm by Manning Marable

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Waistline2@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Interesting interview.
>  

I totally agree. Here's something I posted a while back relevant to 
Malcolm's assassination:

This is a long and fascinating article on Khalil Islam, who was arrested
and found guilty along with two other men for the assassination of
Malcolm X. It is the same person I found out about first in 1967 when I
was a welfare worker in Harlem and became friends with one of my
clients, Jonathan (Jo Jo) Jones Jr. Jo Jo was a drummer just like his
father Jo Jones. Somewhere along the line, the question of Malcolm X
came up and Jo Jo told me that his brother-in-law had been framed up.
This was obviously Khalil Islam, as the article indicates:

According to Khalil, Thomas Johnson, his given âslave nameââhe now calls
it his âgovernment nameââhad âa really beautiful childhood,â 
especially
when he lived with his grandparents near Atlantic City. âIt was country,
I ran around in the woods. My grandfather played the slide trombone and
tuba in the sideshow of the Barnum and Bailey circus. I got my love of
music then.â But after moving to New York, he tried dope and knew,
âright away, Iâd be doing it every day. I loved it.â

Fifteen when his father threw him out of the house for his drug use,
Khalil spent a decade in the streets. Along with his onetime wife Jo-Ann
Jones, daughter of Jo Jones, the nonpareil drummer in the Basie band,
Khalil passed time in jazz clubs, digging his bop favorites like Sonny
Rollins and Thelonious Monk. He lived in a hotel on West 44th Street
where Sugar Ray Robinson had the penthouse. Like most junkies, he
remembers the precise location of every place he copped dope. Driving
past a billiard parlor on 145th Street, Khalil said, âThat was one of my
spots. Weâd walk down from the Bronx. Didnât matter if it was raining,
soaking wet, weâd go.â Nights in âdope holesâ on 117th Street were spent
clutching âwake-up bags,â packets of heroin needed âto get your ass out
of bed so you could go into your daily flatfoot hustle.â

full: http://nymag.com/news/features/38358/



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