Shabazz behind bars

This is just sad. Malcolm X's grandkid, Malcolm Shabazz, has been arrested for punching out the window of a doughnut shop.

According to Yahoo News,

"Shabazz was released from prison this year after serving time for a 2002 attempted robbery conviction.

He also was blamed for the death of his grandmother and X's widow, Betty Shabazz, in 1997 after he set fire to her apartment. He pleaded guilty to the juvenile equivalents of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree arson and spent time in various juvenile centers, escaping at least twice but being recaptured.

He is the son of Qubilah Shabazz, who was 4 when she saw her father, a civil rights leader, shot to death in a Harlem ballroom in 1965."

I don't know what went wrong with this kid's life, but the tragedy is simply that Malcolm X was one of the finest pillars of integrity and honor to ever grace the streets of New York. The irony of this story just makes me ill.

It's never too late to hope, however. Malcolm, Sr. was a criminal and a junkie before he found Islam in prison, and that was when he was much older than his grandson is now. You never know...