Quanell X

Quanell X
Quanell X at Joe Horn protest, December 2, 2007
Born	Quanell Ralph Evans (1970-12-07) December 7, 1970 (age 47) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Activist
Organization	New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam

Quanell X (/ˈɛks/; born Quanell Ralph Evans; December 7, 1970) is the leader of the New Black Panther Party in Houston, Texas.

Quanell Ralph Evans was born in Houston, Texas. Both parents were Nation of Islam converts. When they divorced, Evans moved to south Houston to live with his mother and younger brother in the South Acres neighborhood, where he attended Worthing High School. Quanell was a drug dealer in the Sunnyside community located in southern Houston, Texas. Quanell served jail time for selling crack cocaine in the Sunnyside and Acres Homes subdivisions in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s.

In September 1990, Quanell Evans was inspired by a Louis Farrakhan speech at Sam Houston Coliseum and became a community agitator joining the Nation of Islam against his parents' wishes. The newly dubbed Quanell X quickly became a spokesman in the organization.

In July 1992, Quanell X found his brother Quinten Evans dead in his apartment with three others, all with bullets to their heads. In August 2009, three incarcerated men were charged with capital murder in the killings. Around this time Quanell X met State Representative Ron Wilson (D-Houston); he would eventually work for Wilson as an aide for a short while.

Angered by Jewish protests over a conference dedicated to "the black Holocaust", in 1995, Quanell X was quoted in the New York Daily News as saying,

I say to Jewish America: Get ready … knuckle up, put your boots on, because we're ready and the war is going down. … The real deal is this: Black youth do not want a relationship with the Jewish community or the mainstream white community or the foot shuffling, head-bowing, knee bobbing black community. … All you Jews can go straight to hell.