Malcolm X's Daughter Rebukes Al Qaeda Leader
by Max Blumenthal
Earlier this week, Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a tape praising Malcolm X and condemning Barack Obama. Now, Malcolm X's daughter tells The Daily Beast why she rejects Zawahiri and how she became a "diehard" Obama fan.......................
“Looking at the Obamas, it’s like my father and my mother 43 years later,” Malcolm X’s daughter said....................
Malaak had not seen the Zawahiri tape by the time I called her. When I explained what Zawahiri said, she reacted angrily, immediately comparing the Al Qaeda figure to Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam chieftain who was an avowed enemy of her father and has admitted he “may have been complicit” in inciting his murder.
Malaak has nothing but praise for Barack Obama. She is a self-proclaimed “diehard Obama supporter” who sees the incoming first couple as a vision of “my mother and father 43 years later.”MB: What is your reaction to Ayman al-Zawahiri’s appropriation of your father’s legacy to attack Barack Obama as a “House Negro?”
MS: I ignore him like I ignore Farrakhan. Next question. Next. There’s other issues we need to deal with. We need to focus energy on what is central to what we’re doing, not that negative shit.
MB: What is your opinion of Barack Obama?
MS: When I heard him speak at the DNC (in 2004) I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father’s assassination this year. So I am a diehard Obama supporter.
MB: Why?
MS: Looking at the Obamas, it’s like my father and my mother 43 years later. It was the same old rock star thing, and I think Barack is continuing what my father did with true consciousness, true ability, and a global view. Michelle and Barack epitomize what my father set the stage for—they epitomize global community organizing. I’m a global child, I was raised a global child, and he’s a global child. You know, I look at Barack, he’s slim like my father, and Michelle’s full figured like my mother. And I just love it.
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