Khalid Moffitt
The Philadelphia Independent American Party (IAP) Committee has entered into a political community experience with poet and author Khalid Moffitt. The announcement was made Sunday, March 14, by Warren Bloom, Treasurer of Philadelphia IAP Committee.
Khalid Moffitt is an author, poet and promoter who rose from imprisonment and gun shot victim to citywide critical acclaim.
In 1992, following several hardships, including serving a prison sentence for illegal activities and having been shot while driving away from a dispute mix up, Moffitt began his professional writing career from a hospital sick bed.
As far as his prison time goes, it was in December of the year 1992 that Moffitt, the drug dealer, was sentenced to be incarcerated as a prisoner at the Graterford prison located at Pennsylvania 29 & Graterford Rd. The second prison he went to was Somertset prison. Eventually he ended up at Waymart prison where he finished up serving 5 years. Moffitt came out of prison a changed young man. He actually turned his life around from crime as he was very fortunate to avoid a 150 years of imprisonment judgment which the district attorney was seeking for his life. Standing before the judge, he was only 17 years-old at the time his illegal activity came to a crash.
Khalid overcame another life threatening dilemma after this time he was the victim living in the big sunny city.
In 2008 Moffitt was shot during a argument between his younger brother and an acquaintance of his younger brother at a North Philadelphia home.
Khalid had just begun finishing his first book for self-publishing when he was asked by his younger brother to accompany him to a friends house to help mediate a dispute. Shortly after arriving at the home of his brother's friend, Khalid's brother and friend began to yell at each other, the gunman jumped outside his home, made a threatening comment about arguing with Moffitt's younger brother, and began firing at close range into Moffitt's body, shooting him in the throat before Moffitt could get away from the argument. Moffitt was driving his car to avoid trouble when the perpetrator opening fire on both Moffitt and his brother. Still, his brother took a hit from the shots fired as the shooter fled the scene.
No one seemed to heard the shots fired. And by the time the police came on the scene Khalid had rushed his brother and himself toward the nearest hospital where police stopped Khalid and assisted getting both he and his brother to emergency. Moffitt's brother was hit far worse than he was as the shooting ended in his brother being paralyzed at the waiste.
After entering the hospital Moffitt survived the gun shot to the neck.
While thinking about how hard it was to live as a young man in the big city of brotherly love he finished his self-published book, "Love & Life in My Language". Khalid Moffitt's Love & Life in My Language is in paper back and it has about 40 poems which he personally pinned.
It is a 52 page poetry book that delivers, 20 love poems, and 20 life poems in his own expressions. The book was completed and released in March of ’09.
"I have written and completed 72 songs. The words that I’ve written have given me the inspiration, along with the encouragement from others to become a motivational speaker. I have spoken to children and adults about life, success, failure, never giving up . . . no matter what; to name a few topics. I also have an internet talk show entitled "Royal Talk with K. Moffitt". This is the same concept, but world issues are also discussed in conversation,” he says.
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