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It keeps getting better. Now they want to rename a section of Malcolm X Blvd in NY for Elijah Mohammed.
The irony frens, the irony..
NYC Council considering naming Harlem street after Elijah Muhammad
January 30, 2023
The City Council is set to rename a Harlem street after Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad — a figure civil rights activists consider a bigot who promoted black separatism.
According to a street-naming list, the corner of West 127th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard would become “The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way.”
The site is where Mosque Temple No. 7 — the Eastern regional headquarters of the Nation of Islam — is located.
The honor for Elijah Muhammad is among 128 street renamings on a list before the Council — which will vote on the entire list.
But naming an intersection for Elijah Muhammad along a section of Malcolm X. Boulevard is expected to raise eyebrows at a Tuesday public hearing.
==NYPD Patrolman Phillip Cardillo was killed by Nation of Islam radicals in 1972 at Mosque No. 7’s previous location on 116h Street in 1972 while responding to a fake emergency call. No one has been convicted in the slaying.
Malcolm X was a protege of Elijah Muhammad, but the pair had a falling out and Malcolm X split from the Nation of Islam.==
Malcolm X was later assassinated by members of the black religious and nationalist organization in the Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965 with speculation continuing to rage over whether others, allegedly including Elijah Muhammad, ordered the hit.==
Muhammad denied any involvement but said days after the assassination that “Malcolm X got just what he preached.”
Harlem democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan put in the request to honor Elijah Muhammad.
But Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said the proposal to honor Elijah Muhammad should be removed from the list. The issue will be discussed at the Council’s public hearing Tuesday.
“I’m going to oppose Elijah Muhammad. He was a black supremacist. He was a bad guy,” Holden said. “It’s an insult to Malcolm X Boulevard.”
Sauce/more: https://todaybreeze.com/2023/01/nyc-council-considering-naming-harlem-street-after-elijah-muhammad.html
More on the assassination of Malcolm X: https://allthatsinteresting.com/malcolm-x-assassinationhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/headlines.jpg
(shot 15 times at close range at a rally)