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REMEMBERING
TWO GREAT MEN
Dr. Imari
Abubarkari
Obadele & Brother
Preston
Wilcox:
Black
Nationalist & Equality within the “System” Advocate
By H. Khalif
Khalifah........February 8, 2010.....Special to
the Newport Newservice
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA
- The diverse representation at the recent memorial
for Dr. Imari Obadele, bore witness to his genius in
founding N’COBRA (The National Coalition of Blacks
For Reparations). The diversity of N’COBRA was,
arguably, the most successful advancement of a pure
Black Nationalist Issue in the history of Black
people in
America: The
Demand that America
pay our Reparations.
On the other hand, some of the most
doctrinaire Black Nationalist you are likely to see
paid final respects to Dr. Obadele. The presence of
Black Nationalist represent the fact that Dr.
Obadele also founded the most successful,
doctrinaire Black nationalist formation one is
likely to find in North America:
The
Republic
of
New Afrika.
Meanwhile, also present were
more than a few Brothers and Sisters you will never
see at a memorial for a Black nationalist, or have
any association to a Black nationalist Issue.
And of course, all in between were
represented, including the Esteemed Minister Akbar
Muhammad, representing Minister Louis Farrakhan and
the Nation of Islam.
THE REPRESENTATION OF GREAT
AFRIKAN INDIVIDUALS
The work of great Afrikan men and women is
characterized by the seemingly uncanny way they can
feel the “pulse” of Black people. They understand
the needs of Black people; and in a timely manner,
find ways to induce them to act in their own Self
Interest: this is not an easy thing to do in white
America.
In a System that is based on
White Supremacy, as the U.S.A. still is, more times
than not, so it appears, in order to survive, Black
people seldom act in their own Best Interest; to
“get ahead” and “stay ahead” Black people earn our
livelihoods working in the best interest of the
white inheritors of the
wealth of our former chattel slaver owners. As a
Towering Ancestor, Harlem Community Servant, Brother
Preston Wilcox said, when asked why the funding of
AFRAM Associates was cut off, he said:
“They
cut me off because I refused to participate in my
own oppression. The doctrine of white skin privilege
still prevails in
America. We must change that.”
Preston
was just as sincere about a desire for the
Liberation of Black people, as any I have ever
known. Yet, his leadership and service was to
achieve it by “changing”
America; to
accommodate Black people. Yet he worked with avowed
Black Nationalist, like myself; and he unreservedly
admired the work and person of Dr. Obadele. It was
he who formally introduced this Role Model.
Dr. Imari Obadele and Brother Preston served
the greater mass of Black people. Dr. Obadele
founded the separatist RNA, admonishing black people
to “just do the work.” Meanwhile, anyone who ever
worked anytime at all with him knew that he would
say this then promptly out “work” everyone else. On
the other hand, his Founding of N’COBRA gave him a
means to serve the greater mass of his people.
GUILE, INTELECT AND
LIVING IN HARLEM BY
CHOICE
Brother Preston served Black people by guile
and intellect. He was a scholar on par with the
giants of his generation. He was a Columbia
University Professor who left that institution in
the late 1960’s to found and administer AFRAM
Associates. AFRAM was a consummate Reference Library
in the heart of Harlem. It
was in the UBA building on
131st Street
between 5th and Park Avenues.
“I work
and live in
Harlem by choice,” stated
Preston.
“Some folk live here because they can’t function or
live anywhere else. That’s the difference.
“See, I know,” he continued,
‘“you can’t be
free if someone let’s you be free. I wasn’t the
first to say that. But it is true” He shared that
the quote was “subway graffiti.”
Out of Dayton,
Ohio, Preston Wilcox
received enormous funding after leaving
Columbia
around 1967. He founded AFRAM Associates, and
established it as his base of operations for the
next forty years. He used the funding in a very
instructive way to non-profits and profits alike.
The money was uses to “tool up,” As he said,
“preparing for day we can be self sufficient.” That
day would NOT come before he could get all “tools”
in place. But he had the entire floor; filled it
will file cabinets and hired a dedicated staff to
collect data as a one of great Reference centers in
African America history. For the last three decades,
Preston worked without staff, using the “tools” he’d
bought to continue to do his work.
“He was sort of a historical collector of
data on The Movement,” said Herman Ferguson, one of
Preston contemporaries at the apex of
his power in the late ’60 and early 1970’s.
“He sent out a lot of data on most all
activities of note in The Movement,” Continued the
92-years old Herman Ferguson, “he was involved in a
lot of organizational work – collecting information
and sharing that around the National Black
Community.”
Preston
was in attendance at every major conference of note,
from 1967 until a car accident came within a hare’s
breath of taking his life in 1973.
More will certainly be written
about Preston, if NCOBNE (The
National Coalition of Black Nationalist Elders) can
secure a lot. If a lot cannot be secured and
preserved, then the little that is available will be
used to point him up as a model for sincere
non-Black Nationalist, historic figures who did much
to advance the interest of The Greater Black
Community in North America.
So as Black youth, and generations
advancing far beyond, continue to strive for
Freedom, Justice and Equality, there are enough
role models to pattern the characterization of
your work after, whether you are a doctrinaire
Black Nationalist like Dr. Imari Abubarkari
Obadele; or a Equal in “the system,” advocate
like Brother Preston Wilcox, of AFRAM
Associates. As Dr. Obadele was wont to admonish,
“just do the work!”
H. Khalif Khalifah is a Publisher who lives in Drewryville, Virginia. To
comment, or question this article, call
434-378-2140. Please e-mail
blacknationelders@khabooks.com
www.khabooks.com
H. Khalif Khalifah is a Publisher who lives in Drewryville, Virginia. To
comment, or question this article, call
434-378-2140. Please e-mail
blacknationelders@khabooks.com
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DR. IMARI OBADELE
KHALIFAH ROLE
MODEL AND
MENTOR TRANSITIONS
DR. IMARI OBADELE WAS CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
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A CALL TO CONFERENCE
OF
BLACK
NATIONALIST ELDERS
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HARLEM,
N. Y. NOW MAJORITY WHITE
Caucasians Win Hollow Victory
Black People Already Vacating Urban Areas of
America
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2010 YEAR OF BLACK EMPOWERMENT
SPEARHEADED
BY THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF
KUCHICHALIA VILLAGES
BY LIB.COM
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PROSPECTS FOR FREEDOM IN 2010
Reflections on a Fruitful, Rewarding Life
In the
Liberation Struggle of Afrikan People
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KHALIFAH ROLE
MODEL AND
MENTOR TRANSITIONS
DR. IMARI OBADELE WAS CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA & N’COBRA AS
WELL AS
AUTHOR OF SEVERAL DOZEN BOOKS
By H. Khalif Khalifah
JANUARY 20, 2010,SOUTHAMPTON
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
– A legend in his own time, Dr. Imari Abubakari
Obadele, a Co-Founding President of the Republic of
New Afrika and N’COBRA, two of the signature Black
organizations of the 20th Century, in
North America has transitioned.
The
announcement was made on
January 19, 2010 by the Chairman of the
PCC (Peoples Citizen Council) of the
Republic
of New Afrika.
Dr Obadele will be recorded in History Among the
constellation of Freedom bound Black people who
never gave in or gave up to recapture everything
about Afrikan people that was Stolen, Lost of
compromised by those who think the best avenue to
Freedom, Justice and Equality is being comfortable
enough with the confines of the White Supremacist
based system that was founded on Black blood, sweat,
tears and brains, to be equal within.
It is
fairly well known about the great formations
Dr.Obadele founded: The Republic of New Afrika and
N’COBRA (The National Coalition of Blacks For
Reparations in
America. No doubt,
members of the two formation, that are still very
actively struggling to hold firm to the principles
and standards that were instilled into them in 1968
and 1987 respectively; BUT what is not so well known
is the sheer, total impact his life and work had on
Black individuals who were never members of both, or
either of the organizations.
As one
of my Mentors, Brother Odinga Lumumba told me that
the Undaunted Carlos A. Cooks said about him, many
whose lives Dr. Obadele positively impacted “do not
carry the card, but they have the heart!”
I will
not venture to use anyone as an example save myself.
I am yet to become a “card carrying” member of the
RNA” but only because I was advised by someone in
position to wisely advise me not to become one. For
after reading a little out of print book called
“Foundations of the Black Nation,” this book gave me
practical use and application, not only for my faith
and belief in the Teachings of The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, but my budding skills as a journalist,
would-be publisher. So with my Spirituality firmly
intact via the NOI, I went to work. Dr. Imari A.
Obadele was a Role Model that was destined to also
become a Mentor
in Independent Institutions for
Nation
Building.
After a successful career as a Publisher, I
was of a mind to do more than just cover the stories
about Liberation Struggle of Black people. The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad had transitioned several
years prior, but the opportunity to work day to day,
week to week, month to month, or year to year, or
whatever the case may be necessary to get the job
done, I joined N’COBRA primarily because Dr. Imari
A. Obadele was there.
Dr. Obadele had been in poor health in
recent years: so after I assumed a different
vantage point vs N’COBRA, early in this century,
the closeness with him waned. He has been missed
in my life over the prior few years; now no
doubt his missing will be with the mixed emotion
of pain of his passing; and unbridled
appreciation for having the opportunity to work
in formation with him for some ten years of my
life.
H.
Khalif Khalifah lives on a farm in
Southampton County,
Virginia.
He is a former 6-term member on The National Board
of Director of N’COBRA, 1996 to 2002. Co-Chair of
the Human Resources of N’COBRA, Contributor to
ENCOBRA magazine and Liaison for N’COBRA to the
Million Man March, October 16, 1995. Like Dr.
Obadele he has written several books himself, one of
which is called “A Brief History About N’COBRA & The
Reparations Movement.” He has also been the
Publisher for more than 600 books that are written,
by for or about Black people’ as well as hundreds of
thousands of newspapers, magazines & etc. over the
past
four decades.
www.natturnertrail.com
khalifah23844@yahoo.com
A CALL TO CONFERENCE
OF
BLACK
NATIONALIST ELDERS
By Emamuel L. Knight
JANUARY 15, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
– A call is made to Black nationalist Elders to
attend a Pro-Black Media Conference “to Assess the State of, Offer Support, and Give
Guidance and Advice to The National Black
Community.”
All Black people are welcome to attend and
participate but the specific purpose for the
Conference is to assess what Black Elders are
planning to do with their possessions when they
retire and transition.
The purpose of the conference is also to form a
National
Coalition of Black Nationalist Elders. The Black
Nationalist Elders, (NCBNE) will identify worthy
work by Black youth to whom they will endorse with
words, acts and deeds of support.
TARGETED MEMBERSHIP
The targeted Elders for Membership are identified as
sixty (60) years and older whose work in the
National Black Community is, and has been in the
past, from positions within Black Nationalism (Pan
Africanist and other
Independence
guided formations).
Black Elders, as they are in the greater Black
Community, 60 years and older are transitioning
(dying) at a faster pace than others within Black
America. The Coalition of Black Nationalist Elders
is to ensure that the nature of their work, now and
after they transition, benefit Black Independence
Movements within Black America.
The wealth of NCBNE is profound when collected
together. However, since the devastation of the
progressive ideology of the general Black community
in general, and Black nationalism in particular,
there is much prevailing confusion about the ideals,
principles and practice of Black Nationalism. The
conference will address these concerns.
MEDIA, POLITICS, CULTURE, ECONOMICS &
SPIRITUALITY
The conference will focus on five areas of
concern in Black America: 1) Politics 2) Culture 3)
Economics 4) Spirituality and 5) Media. Models of
“systems” that have served Black people well during
THEIR OWN lives will be the guiding manner in which
the Elders Coalition will work.
The “Callers to
Conference” are Dr. Kamau Kambon, and First United
Brother, H. Khalif Khalifah. They targeted the over
sixty generation primarily because, arguably, all of
the major advances of The Black Nation today can be
traced to the work of their own generation when they
were Black Youth in the 1960’s.
As
“elders” in Black
America
over sixty, there is no dearth of knowledge or
understanding about
Independence
vs any other ideal, Program vs System, Religion vs
Spirituality and Words vs Acts and Deeds. The Wisdom
from the understanding will guide causes their
support.
Anyone of a mind
to attend the conference is welcome. The conference
will be held at in THE NAT TURNER REFERENCE LIBRARY,
26070 Barhams Hills Road,
Drewryville,
Virginia
23844
during Black History Month 2010. The date and time
will be announced: call 434-378-2140, or
919-250-9110 to register or get more information.
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HARLEM,
N. Y. NOW MAJORITY WHITE
Caucasians Win Hollow Victory
Black People Already Vacating Urban Areas of
America
By H. Khalif Khalifah
JANUARY 5, 2010
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
– The white reclaiming of the cities of the
United States of America reached a milestone recently. The
N.Y. Times recently front paged a headline that
“Harlem Loses It Black Majority.”
This is
in fact a hollow victory. Black people who can leave
NYC on their own terms have already gone. The ones
who remain are not very easy to define; but they
range from some of the most affluent Black people in
history to remnants of some of the most militant in
history. The ones in between are harbingers of bad
news for the “new majority.”
The “most affluent” ones are the so-called “upper
crust,” the ones whose dominance of the body
politic, of
Harlem,
over the past 50 years or so, effectively vouchsafed
the legendary
Village
of
Harlem
for white people. Instead of developing prime
locations and structures for the Black residents of
Harlem,
they were forever looking for the day when
Harlem
would be ‘safe’ enough to bring in white investors.
When that day came in the 1990’s they gleefully sold
out to white people.
The other segment of the population that
remains in
Harlem
are Black people who are struggling to get it
together, and when they do, they too will collect
their possessions and migrate back south, or go
elsewhere.
The third tier that remains are the ones that I am
absolutely sure white people do not want to deal
with anyplace on planet earth: These are the die
hard Harlemites who will fight for their homeland to
the last breath; many of these are living on the
fringes, or are looking for some way or other to
gather enough unity to make their moves, against
white people, at some future opportune time.
The latter is akin to the way that liberation
movements have traditionally been borne every place
white people devastated and stole when they emerged
out of the caves and hillsides of
Europe.
They come in and a buy property for a
pittance, beg, and steal what they can. Then the
missionaries come in with the “bible in one hand and
the gun in the other,” brutalizing the people to the
extent that whites wind up controlling every thing
of value in the “village.”
It was not different in
Harlem.
White people got
Harlem,
but, fortunately, in the
Year of Black
Empowerment the collective good sense of Black
people are already setting up in places that portend
for a better Quality of life in less stressful
environs.
KUJICHALIA
VILLAGES
AND OTHER PRIME
PLACES OF DESTINATION
We don’t want to get too far ahead of our
story, but there is a movement on the Internet that
started as a social network. It is called “Living in
Black.” The
visionary of LIB is one of the most talented
Africans of our generation. His name is Keidi Awadu.
He recently told us that LIB, over the past several
years, has established financially supportive
relationships with three repatriation projects in
Ghana
and
Benin,
West Africa.
He now intends to concentrate within
America
by establishing 19 leadership councils to establish
the first two Kujichalia Villages here in the
United States of America – our ultimate intention is to
“save our people from devastation in the urban
killing zones in
America.”
For those, like myself, who staked out areas
away from the Urban areas long ago, this is news
that we can surely use. I am based out of
Southampton
County
and
Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Over the past 25 years we have seen our people
trickle from the North into the areas were we are:
the move by LIB will, no doubt mushroom, what has
been called a “return migration.”
So as we watch the influx of white people
into white Northern cities, we welcome the returning
migrants to the places where the air is clean, the
earth is fertile, water is good and more than a few
of their “urbanized” folk are already here to
welcome them.
Anyone wanting more information regarding the
above-mentioned strategic initiatives can go to
www.LivingInBlack.com, can sample the audio
archives at
www.LIBRadio.com, or call us at 434-378-2140.
KHALIFAH'S LATEST REPARATIONS
ARTICLE:
"Security & Stability
Threatened: Reparations & Health Care"
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2010 WILL BE THE YEAR OF BLACK
EMPOWERMENT
SPEARHEADED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF KUCHICHALIA VILLAGES
by H. Khalif Khalifah
JANUARY 1, 2010
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
– By all indications, signs, symbols, forecasts,
dreams and visions, 2010 will be the Year of Black
Empowerment. The main indicator is the fact that we,
as a National Black Community of autonomous people,
have survived the onslaught of capture and removal
from our ancestral land, the Middle Passage, Chattel
Slavery, Willie Lynch Teaching/Post Traumatic
Slavery Disorder, second-class citizenship and every
form of oppression imaginable.
We have also survived what the white man and woman
may hope and think is the final death knell to the
aspirations of Black people for our
Complete,
Freedom, Justice and Equality. African people,
especially Black people in the
United States of
America,
in the year 2010 are a dynamic, formidable force
that cannot be denied – when our minds are focused
on any objective.
In the year 2010 we will gather enough unity
to determine and work to establish exactly what our
Freedom will look like on that Great Day in our
future called AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us that to
prolong his world the white man would give up his
woman and anything else to maintain his rule and
authority over us. That would be the last stage
before Black people who survived with minds intact,
to a certain degree, would begin to gather, empower
ourselves and move infinitely in the right direction
to recapture our
lost Freedom, Justice and Equality.
The election of Barack Obama as president of the
United States of
America
is the main indicator of the fulfillment of this
prophecy. The wholesale ease with how Blacks and
White individuals are marrying out of their own
races today is part and partial of the same
phenomenon .
WHAT BLACK EMPOWERMENT MEANS
1.
The re-turn migration
of Black people to the land will mushroom. The
re-turn migration of Black people “back to the land”
will accelerate. The Establishment of 19 Kuchichalia
Villages in North America, led by Internet Pioneer,
LIB Founder and Administrator, Master Keidi Awardu.
The credentials and work of Master Keidi is as
comprehensive as it is impeccable. The facts
surrounding how he ushered in a swelling movement of
Black owned, internet based Radio cybercast is so
dynamic it boggles the mind. Now he has tighten his
alliance with one of his
Mentors,
H. Khalif Khalifah to establish the first of the
Kuchichalia Villages on the 123 acres
of land that is owned by Khalifah. The land is
historic in and of itself. It is part of the
plantation where Nat Turner was born, slaved and
planned a slave revolt that killed some 100 white
slave owners in 1831.
2.
While the wholesale,
Re-education of Black people about Self and Kind
cannot be truthfully declared; the fact that the
classic, seminal book written by Dr. Carter G.
Woodson has fairly blanketed the National Black
community for more than twenty years. His book,
The Mis-Education of the Negro; two other classics,
Stolen Legacy
by George G. M. James, and
The Message to
the Blackman by the
Honorable
Elijah Muhammad have been consistent,
best sellers since the “Black Books Movement”
in the early 1990’s.
The “Black Books Movement” was ushered in, largely,
on the dynamic energy of the Best Selling book by
Sister Shahrazad Ali. By the force of the word power
the Blackman and Blackwoman evaluated their
relationships with each other; then they connected
the evaluation to the “classic” books named with the
dramatic unity message in the Million Man March,
gathering the strength to weave though all manner of
traps to survive to
The Year of
Black Empowerment.
THE LAUNCHING OF ONE
WEEKLY EVENT TO CONNECT SERIOUS BLACK PEOPLE TO THE
ONE REQUISITE
TO EMPOWER SELF AND KIND:
THAT IS LAND!
We propose a weekly Day of Black Empowerment
during 2010.
A Land Bank Fund would be funded through the
services of the swell of Black owned radio shows
coast to coast. As per the tradition that Keidi and
Khalifah have established for people who respond and
support their efforts, each donation will receive
one of the products upon which everything they have
done in a combined 70 years of dedication to serve
Black people.
Some of the products donors will receive can
be viewed at
http://www.khabooks.com/books.html Or you may call
in advance to 434-378-2140.
PROSPECTS FOR FREEDOM IN 2010
Reflections on a Fruitful, Rewarding Life
In the
Liberation Struggle of Afrikan People
By H. KHALIF KHALIFAH
Over the past
two decades, I have written several estimations of
our “Prospects for Freedom” on the eve of The
Western designations of New Years. The following is
written in that tradition. P.F.F. 2009 is a little
different in that it is kind of personal and
reflective on my life of some 40 years of “making my
maximum contribution to the liberation of African
people.” So if you do read the following, read it
with that in mind: my estimation for African freedom
in 2010 is being looked at through the prism of my
own life and conscious of the legacy I shall leave,
this deep into my Eldership.
The prospects for the freedom of African people in
2010 is dim. It is dim partly because in approaching
my 70th birthday in April. It is also dim
and uncertain because the forward movement to
successfully demand our Reparations, that I feel I
was a part of in the 1990’s appears to be on the
decline.
My personal fortune has been reduced to a $400,000
house on a land base of 20
acres; and an additional
102 acres of large trees and farmland, whose confirmed value range from $3,000
per to $10,000. Moreover the land is priceless; it
is reportedly the birthplace of none other that
Master Nat Turner – the 1831 organizer and leader of
the greatest physical movement to liberate Africans
in our history in
North America.
It is estimated that Nat Turner’s Black Liberation
Army won 17 straight victories – killing 100 slave
owners on their march to
Jerusalem.
REVIEW OF 40 YEARS
I am of a mind to sell the priceless land the
house or both and move on to greater prospects for
comfort and satisfaction. The comfort will be closer
to my immediate children and Grand Children. The
satisfaction will
be in the underwriting of several projects to
energize the Noble struggle to which I have already
freely given time and money. Carefully giving of
money will perpetuate, if not consolidate my legacy.
The legacy is borne of the some 600 different book
titles and 500,000 periodicals I have directly
produced during the 40 years. I have also been
co-founder, establisher of, and Senior Tour Guide
that personally introduced some 3,000 to 5,000, to
the physical structures along the route traveled;
and countless others to the Nat Turner Trail.
Most of the periodicals I wrote and edited myself;
14 of the books were written by myself: so it has
been a fruitful life, but far less than it could
have been if Elders in my youth had the mindset and
resources that are presently at my command. In my
estimation, I am at another point where I can avoid
one of the mistakes that my own Elders and Mentors
made in my youth: holding on too long to things that
would serve the Liberation Struggle of African
people when a qualified, committed, sincere youth
was in their presence.
As
it has been for all of my life of struggle for
African people, prospects for a more comfortable
lifestyle offers greater hope than the prospects for
the liberation of African people. This is
normal fair in all systems based on a doctrine of
White Supremacy.
My projections for a more comfortable
lifestyle is only fair seeming. As I stated in my
latest book: “it is akin to living the life of a
‘happy slave.’” Yet there is much quickening of my
spirit in thoughts to give resources to fresh ideals
in the person of promising young warriors.
There are several such individuals around my person
today. Ironic as it is to me, the individuals are in
very much the same position I was in my late 20’s
and early 30’s. I had the ideals and energy but not
the resources to underwrite the cost to implement
the ideals. Realizing early on that I was not
prepared for a “revolutionary” life closed
one avenue stream to secure funding. That is through
Expropriations. But I found that I was very much
qualified and prepared for the other way to reclaim
our Freedom: that is Demand our Reparations.
As stated, I am of no doubt that several Black youth
in my life today will help to perpetuate and
consolidate my legacy and future. If I can now
accelerate what I have been doing over the past 5
years, or so. The acceleration will be in the form
of money.
Prospect for Freedom in 2010 will hopefully do two
things:1) Bring Black Youth so they can see what
about my business they can use to further their own
2) Sell my business interest [mostly books, art
reproductions, posters, button making machine, etc.)
to the $numbers so I can, in the least, vouchsafe
The Nat Turner Reference Liberation at 26070 Barhams
Hills Road, Drewryville, Virginia 23844. (434)
378-2140.
To leave no room for doubt: this is a last ditch
effort to save this Nat Turner Birth Land: I
have an estimated $1,000,000 worth of inventory
of books, including 1000 Stolen Legacy, 500 Post
Traumatic Slavery Disorder, fewer copies of Mis-Education
of the Negro, i.e. but will have a 1,000 before
Black History Month. I would need to sell 30,000
X $10.00 worth of produces to save the building
that houses The Nat Turner Reference Library.
The
102 acres
of land is free of debt: so if necessary, $cash
could be donated to save the land.
Khalifah is the founder of UBUS COMMNICATIONS
SYSTEMS. He lives in
Southampton County,
Virginia,
serving as a Publishing Consultant, Senior Tour
Guide of the Nat Turner Trail. His next book,
The Acquision
and Proper Use of Power: Why We Struggle, Why We
Fight will be released on
April 29, 2009:
publish@khabooks.com
www.blackbooksaward.com
U. S.
SECURITY & STABILITY THREATENED:
HEALTH CARE & REPARATIONS
Throughout history, the record
shows that great leaders rise to the challenge of
great issues. President
Barack Obama is a great man, so is rising to meet
the challenge of one great issue that presently
threatens the “security and stability" of the future
of the United States
of America: the
Health care of Americans.
He proposes a
“comprehensive” solution for U. S. Health Care.
Evidently this is the correct approach for the
Health of some segments of the population in
America.
However, whether the security
and stability of
America
will be vouchsafed for the future, will also depend
on whether or not he deals “comprehensively” with
the Great issue to heal black people. That Great
Issue is Reparations. But Reparations is not yet on
the "radar screen" of Barack Obama. And will not be
there unless Black people do the work necessary to
put it there.
The payment of Reparations the only
comprehensive approach that will "repair" Black
people in the United
States of America.
REPARATIONS IS TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE
The poor financial, social, political and
mental condition of Black people, is already
definitively documented and linked back to chattel
slavery – the brutal aftermath of slavery is also
well documented: so there is not a need to recount
any examples of the general ill condition of Black
people in America.
But there are reasons, other than the obvious, why
Reparations is the only remedy that will meet the
challenge; the to "heal" the ills in Black America.
Payment of Reparations is actually the ONLY
comprehensive way the Black condition can be fixed,
healed…..
BARACK OBAMA AGAINST
REPARATIONS
We know well Mr. Obama's position on
Reparations. He has been called on to address the
issue many times. His answers have always been the
same: he is against the paying of Reparations to
Black people. We accept his answer, for he also
nuanced his opposition to the time honored way that
nations, or identifiable communities of repressed
and oppressed people have had their injuries
addressed by the rulers of the lands liable for
them.
The time honored way
that oppressing nations and people have been
redressed is the payment of Reparations. Reparations
is paid because in the commission of the crime of
repression and oppression, injuries are incurred by
the victims: with the payment of Reparations, the
healing of the injuries will begin.
The nuanced
positions Also "time honored."
SINCERE, WELL MEANING LEADERS &
REPARATIONS
Sincere, well meaning folk who are a
part of the nations that are required to pay
Reparations, have always proposed "nuanced" ways to
remedy the requirement that they pay to heal the
injuries. The nuanced positions are to offer
remedial things to afford the victims to heal and
grow to wholeness within the oppressive, offending
nation.
Some examples of the remedial
solutions that have been offered in the past in the
United States of America
are Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act & etc.
While the remedial remedies have had some
remarkable effect on one segment of the oppressed,
victimized people; and
also, some identifiable improvements on the
other segments, the remedial remedies soon
reached a point of diminished returns -
for all segments in the oppressed, National
Black Community.
In short, the remedies
offered were not comprehensive enough to address the
injuries of all in the Black Community. Moreover,
since the remedies were encoded in the laws of the
land, it was not difficult for other citizens to
break the codes to either water down the remedies,
or stop payment of them outright.
The above, remedial remedies stopped short of healing the
ills of Black people - including hundreds of
individuals who used the "slack" afforded in them to
move out of the country, or to a more opportunistic
place within it. [The latter two groups were not
addressed directly in the nuanced remedies].
BLACK PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A
THREAT
TO
U. S. SECURITY AND
STABILITY
There is no doubt that in the minds of all
"Americans" the fact that Black people is, always
was, always will represent a threat to "security and
stability" that will not go away. America's effort
to address this problem have been EXACTLY like they,
led by President Obama, are addressing the Health
Care crisis: once the issue deteriorate to where it
is a threat to the “security and stability” of the
country, they act to do something about it:
Great man
that he is, Barack Obama is proposing a
comprehensive remedy to take care of the problem
once and for all.
On September 9, 2009 he explained his
remedy. The elevated state of every facet of Health
Care in America
have been dramatized and magnified by all the
various “groupings” [insurance companies, doctors,
nurses, hospitals, drug companies and PATIENTS]. The
consequences for not dealing with the threat are not
acceptable. America
will now act to save itself from unacceptable
consequences from the threat.
BRINGING ATTENTION TO ISSUES IS
REQUIRED:
TO DRAMITIZE CONSEQUENCES is
NECESSARY
In the past, Black people have engaged in
many kinds of actions that required that our
condition be addressed: the "nuanced remedies" were
offered up to address the restlessness and direct
action of Black people in the 1960s. When we
dramatized our dissatisfaction with our condition,
it worked! Back then, Black people used many
different methods to evidence our condition:
Arguably, the most effective was when one segment
burnt up some major cities in the
United States of America.
But there
were others….
The Nat Turner Revolt was the most remarkable
in our history from the perspective of the segment
of the Black community that never been addressed. At
least not since President Abraham Lincoln called
Black leaders in back in the 1860’s.
The demonstrations, led by Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. is the best remembered that acted on behalf
of those who are doing relatively well in society.
These are, for the most part, the Black middle and
upper class in
America. Of course,
the most severe hurt, pain and dire condition is on
the individuals and groups in between the two
extremes.
BARACK OBAMA MUST BE COMPELLED
TO ADDRESS THE CONDITION OF
BLACK PEOPLE
It is obvious that the National Black
Community is greatly challenged to magnify our
condition today. The magnification must in the be in
the context of the resources available to us. Our
resources are strong and they are plentiful. But
they are scattered, disjointed and devastated to a
large degree. But the challenge to unite for a
common objective is not nearly as dire as they have
been in the past.
Just imagine what Nat Turner
had to do to unify some chattel slaves back in
1831….Today, we may not have to engage the kind
actions of Nat Turner. But the intensity and
resources that we have to employ must match Nat
Turners determination and desire to free Black
people from ill suited conditions.
When we do our work on a level that match the
present crisis in Black America, Great Man that he
is, Barack Obama will likely find that the only way
to deal effectively with the severity of this
problem is in a comprehensive way:
Reparations is the only remedy that will be
comprehensive enough to address the ills of Black
people across the breath of the National Black
Community.
……………………………………………………………………
H. Khalif Khalifah is a Publishing Consultant and
Journalist who lives in
Southampton County,
Virginia.
He is also a Senior Tour Guide for the Nat Turner
Trail; and can be reached at
publish@khabooks.com twitter blackbooksNow.
THE PRO-BLACK MEDIA
CONFERENCE TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL NETWORK FOR
NATIONAL EMERGENCIES -
PRO-BLACK MEDIA CONFERENCE IS
A RE-VISIT OF FORUM AT
HOWARD
UNIVERSITY
THAT MARKED THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
MILLION MAN MARCH IN OCTOBER 2005 – THE “REVISIT” IS
OCTOBER 17, 2009
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The Newport
Newservice AUGUST 17, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA
– October 15, 2005, the day before the
official celebration of the Million Man March, in
Howard
University’s “moot courtroom” to a
full auditorium and a potential viewer-ship of some
50,000,000 worldwide on C-SPAN, Dr. Kamau Kambon
spoke words that still reverberate in the fearful
psyche of many white people.
Dr. Kambon’s controversial
statement prevented the stated purpose for the
calling of Pro-Black Media Forum:
“to launch a
National Network THAT WOULD BE A MEDIA THROUGH WHICH
THE VIEWS OF Independent Black Voices could be heard
to keep the National Black Community informed – 24-7
– during crisis, especially during national
emergencies.”
The PBMF was co-sponsored by
Publisher H. Khalif Khalifah: so the statement by
Dr. Kambon was certainly not the reason for the
event; or for having the already well known scholar
and businessman on the program: this coming October
17, the day after the Day of Atonement [14
observance of the Million Man March), there will be
a re-constitution of the historic event. Once again
the “Pro-Black Media Network will be launched to a
world-wide audience.
THE PRO-BLACK MEDIA CONFERENCE:
AT THE
KHALIFAH ESTATES IN
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA.
The PBM[Conference] will be this coming October 17, 2009 at Khalifah Estates
in Southampton County,
Virginia. It transpire over
a period from Saturday Morning, from 10 am to 1 p.m.
and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m
[between 1 pm and 4 we will tour the Nat Turner Trail to
re-focus and reinforce our commitment to the
Liberation Struggle of African people. Ways and
Means to use the loose knit “Structure” that is
already prevalent in The National Black Community.
There will be a registration fee of $25.00
per person for the PRO-BLACK MEDIA CONFERENCE. The
fee includes the price of dinner and beverage.
The fee does
not include The Tour of The Nat Turner Trail, which
will be an additional $25.00. Call (434)
378-2140 to register or receive more information.
MAJOR BLACK MEDIA PERSONALITIES
AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC INVITED
TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE
Once again, major black media
personalities are asked to share their views, and
comments on the “organizational structure’ that is
in place and function, it was partly based on the
passion and fervor of the words Black journalist at
The Pro-Black Media Forum in 2005.
A strong, Independent Pro-Black
National network to keep black people informed, in
general, but especially during National Emergencies
- is needed more now than ever; and the opportunity
to build has never been more opportune: technology
makes it so.
PBMF CALLED IN AFTERMATH OF
KATRINA
Pro-Black Media Forum was
called in the after-math of the devastating national
disaster called Katrina; Thousands of Black people
were killed, maimed or relocated from their homes;
many could have been saved IF they had received
proper information “before, during and after the
hurricane.”
The first 25 who register and
attend the PBMC, will have an opportunity to
contribute to the successful conversion of the PBM
structure into a communications system that will
blunt the above from ever happening again.
“Black people
continue to come up with programs in response to the
systems that white people have in place that are
killing us. When our programs are applied to their
systems, they are absorbed and essentially
neutralized. What we need to do is devise systems to
counter their systems of genocide against us.”
Khalifah Estates,
26070 Barhams Hills Road,
Drewryville, Virginia
23844. for more information call
434-378-2140. or e-mail
blackmedia@khabooks.com
"NAT TURNER DAY"
PLANNED FOR KHALIFAH ESTATES
SEVERAL DAYS UNDER CONSIDERATION
ANNOUNCED DURING A NAT TURNER
TRAIL
Sunday, August 16, 2009
By The
Newport
Newservice
- AUGUST 17,
2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
- A
young Elder, Babatunde and a Black Youth, Brother
Jabari, combined thoughts to bring a mixture of
several dozen Black men, women and children from the
city of
Baltimore
to Khalifah Estates, in
Southampton County,
Virginia
to tour The Nat Turner Trail, August 16, 2009.
Khalifah Estates is located on the birth
plantation of Revolutionary Nat Turner. Nat Turner
was a Captive African, who was held as chattel
property by Benjamin Turner from his birth on October 2, 1800,
“until he died and went to hell,” stated H. Khalif
Khalifah, A Senior Tour Guide for the Nat Turner
Trail.
“…or wherever is reserved for humans who held
ownership papers on fellow humans in the
United States of
America.”
Continued Khalifah, as he narrated the story about
the Revolt of Nat Turner and the Black Liberation
Army’s attempt to free his beloved people from
slavery in 1831.
‘I am not telling you the history about the
revolt of Nat Turner so you can become a
revolutionary and do what he did to white people
back in
1831.”
Khalifah also told the bus load of smart attentive
people, as the bus
toured the “battle sites’ where Nat Turner
attacked and killed every slave owner he and the BLA
could get their hands on during the bloody revolt.
“Then on the other hand, I am not telling you
NOT to become a revolutionary and go to war against
this experiment in white supremacy, the United
States of America, that subjected Africans to
chattel slavery, 2nd class citizenship
and now refuse to pay Reparations for past slavery
rendered,” continued Khalifah.
He went on to advise the group that whatever
they decide to do with their lives, they should
never give up their history. This is especially so
in regard to the history about Nat Turner; for the
story about Nat Turner is full of every aspect,
about everything Black people must do to remove the
stigma of chattel slavery, and the other forms of
oppression, collect our Reparations and become a
fully liberated people.
Like Nat Turner, Black people must overcome
their fear to do things they know will “displease
the white man.” After the fear is overcome, they
must then do the things necessary to acquire what
will empower self and fellow Africans.
Khalifah didn’t say it during this particular tour,
but he has said many times in the past that, “the
acquisition of power does not mean you should, or
have to do in 2009, what Turner did in the 18th
century.
“Once
you obtain power, you must be as uncompromising in
its usage to free Black people as Nat Turner was in
his time.”
NAT TURNER: THE “UNTIMATE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER”
Khalifah called Nat Turner “the Ultimate
Community Organizer.” And said he was also a
community organizer just as was, Marcus Garvey and
other so-called Black activist who give up the path
in life that is easy, to work in the Black community
to make the life of Black people just a little bit,
or a lot easier.
But like the best known Black community
organizer in this century, maybe for all time,
U. S.
President Barack Obama, after you organize for the
power, you then use that power to act against things
that keep, or hold the people in subjection.
The way Power is used
should be in the manner that fits both your vision
for Freedom, Justice & Equality; and to achieve what
is possible for the amount of power that you have
organized: Barack Obama used his to win the
presidency of the United States of America. Nat
Turner used his in an attempt to free Black people
from the experiment called the
United States of
America.
Both Black Community Organizers, Barack Obama and
Nat Turner were successful in their tactical use of
Black Community Power. But neither has yet achieved
their vision of Freedom, Justice and Equality for
Black people.
ANNUAL NAT TURNER DAY PLANNED
During the business part of the gathering of
the conscious audience, Khalifah announced that he
was planning to choose and institute a “Nat Turner
Day” for the annual calendar of events at Khalifah
Estates. The date has not as yet been decided. But
the possibilities are many:
Nat Turners
Birthday, the anniversary of the revolt, The date of
his capture, the anniversary of The Heavenly Vision
that ignited the final plans for the revolt.
Whatever date designated “Nat Turner Day,” it
will be instituted into the Calendar of events that
presently includes
Black Book
Awards for Excellence in Black Literature (First
Weekend in June), Children’s Day (July 24), Black
History Month Gathering (February), The Nat Turner
Trail Living History
Tours
(upon demand). Whatever day chosen, it will start and end in The Nat Turner Reference
Library at Khalifah Estates:
26070 Barhams Hills
Road,
Drewryville,
Virginia
23844
[not open to the public all of the time: so call
become you come, 434-378-2140.
For the next
scheduled event, or to book the facilities to
present one, call 434-378-2140. Or write to:
P. O. Box 9,
Drewryville, Va
23844.
Or e-mail
publish@khabooks.com.
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All Rights Reserved, but may be circulated freely
without permission IF nothing is changed, or
omitted.
101 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT
NAT TURNER AND THE
TOTAL BLACK
REBELLION IN AUGUST 1831
Nat
Turners’ Answers to: Willie Lynch Teaching,
Reparations, PTSD
Racism, Second-Class
Citizenship & Other Forms of Oppression
By H. Khalif Khalifah
A
Senior Tour Guide for The Nat Turner Trail in
Southampton Cournty,
Virginia
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NAT
TURNER?
ANSWER 100 QUESTIONS THAT ARE ASKED ON TWITTER
Find the other 99 at
http://twitter.com/home#search?q=blackbooksNOW
QUESTION # 9
DID THE MEN FIND ANYONE ELSE
THEY COULD TRUST?
IF SO
WHAT WERE THEIR NAMES
There was two new recruits at the meeting:
Will and Jack
CAUCASIANS PLAYING
WITH FIRE: THE NAT TURNER REPARATIONS SOLUTION
LOOMS OVER
INTRANSIGENCE OF
AMERICA
- news commentary -
by H. Khalif Khalifah
AUGUST 2, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
– There is a steady chatter, or “tweeting” about
Black revolutionary Nat Turner on the internet. He
hasn’t received this level of international exposure
since he induced fellow chattel captives to overcome
their fear, form into a fighting force and revolt in
Southampton County,
Virginia
in 1831. 4@yahoo.com
www.khabooks.com
The revolt of Nat Turner and the Black Liberation
Army in 1831 was an action to free Black people from
chattel slavery in the
United States of
America.
It was an act that was heard as far around the world
[documented] as
Russia. Now with the accessibility of the internet, historians and Journalist
are blogging, emailing and tweeting information
about Nat Turner to the four corners of the world.
The historic record is being correct about Nat
Turner.
Technology is many
things for many people: it has made many Black and
White individuals “filthy rich” in dollars – mostly
White individuals. However, the richness of, and
correcting of Black history, will eventually equal
every dollar that Caucasian people have ever made
–it is just a matter of time. This projection of
wealth is measured in potential dollars, as well as
the what the healing and correcting of the historic
record means to Black People who have struggled so
long to come this far.
THAT NAT TURNER REPARATIONS SOLUTION
To find a good example of what the correct
portrayal of Black history means to Black people,
one will not have to look far. The distortions and
erroneous accounts about one of Black America’s all
time great heroes have enriched any number of
Caucasians since the revolt in of August of 1831.
Black people have never earned any significant money
about the most successful revolt to regain all of
our freedoms. But the current correct information
surrounding the short, but powerful event is
changing that.
In
Southampton County,
Virginia,
the birthplace, reputedly, of Nat Turner is part of
a
123 acre
tract of land called The Khalifah Estates. The name
Khalifah means “representative in the
Kingdom
of
God.”
Promotion literature to publicize Khalifah Estates,
also contains this definition, and the strong
suggestion that “all coming should plan to be of
that disposition” when visiting the land and
birthplace. It is called “Estates” because of the
number of different attractions of an educational
and recreational nature that one will find there.
THE NAT TURNER REFERENCE LIBRARY
Besides the Khalifah Discount Black
Bookstore, the Nat Turner Reference Library
contains, or will contain all of the positive known
information about Nat Turner. The aspect that is
really getting the attention is
The Nat Turner
Trail.
The Nat Turner Trail is a route through the
county that retraces the path to the plantation
houses that Nat Turner and the BLA attacked and
killed white people during the revolt.
The absolutely most historic sites pertaining to Nat
Turner are the “caves” where he was captured; and
the cabin, near Cabin Pond where Nat Turner’s wife
Cherry lived with his children. Both sites are
located on the land owned by some of Nat Turners
living descendents. The Nat Turner Family allows
touring groups from Khalifah Estate’s to visit where
possible.
Everything about Khalifah’s Estates has been
entwined in the true history about Nat Turner. Now
that it is possible for Black people to get direct,
documented information about the most celebrated
fighter in our history; the fabrication and
distortions about, at the least this part of Black
history, acts similar to a foil.
Before the
technology made it possible to uncover and publicize
the true history, even when you had the truth, there
were limited means to teach, or share it with
others. The Internet is making Nat Turner a very
popular man in Black America.
THE
NAT
TURNER
PARK
IN NEW
JERSEY
Recently there was a
9 acre
city park named for Nat Turner in
Newark,
New
Jersey.
No doubt there will be many more places. One of the
most popularly researched subjects on “twitter” is
the name Nat Turner; and leave it to Black youth to
magnify a trend: recently they appear to be trying
to out do each other in the application of the name
Nat Turner as a adjective to describe a violent
action.
“The next time you do this, I am going to Nat Turner
You!” tweaked one young black man.
“Hey Glenn Beck, lets play a game. You play Glenn
Beck and I will be Nat Turner.” Said another. “Nat
Turner that man!” advised yet another to a person
who had been abused by someone.
There is posting of some of the 100 questions of a
new book “The
Nat Turner Quiz: How Much Do You Know,” have
been questions running daily on twitter.
If white people aren’t worried about the growing
trend to popularize the man to carried out the
greatest nightmare, for them about Black people,
they may soon get there; someone is campaigning
relentlessly to explain the difference between
Reparations that Black people are demanding, and the
money and other valuables that were
expropriated
by Nat Turner and the Black Liberation Army of 1831.
Both
methodologies are to achieve the same result:
get money and other valuables to begin the
healing process to cure Black people for chattel
slavery and its many aftermaths. People who
understand the truth about Nat Turner know that
he went on the war path because ways and means
to secure funds and other valuables to do his
work was closed to him: so when the way to
received Reparations is found to be closed,
Black youth who get understanding about the
Great Issue may well use the wisdom there from
to employ the Nat Turner solution for needed
funds.
H. Khalif Khalifah is a
Independent publisher and advocate for Reparations
for Black people in
America: write
khalifah23844@yahoo.com go to www.khabooks.com
.GATES
MEETING WITH
POLICE AT WHITE HOUSE;
BARACK OBAMA WILL ADDRESS RACE
IN
AMERICA
WITHOUT “MAIN TOOL” TO GET THE JOB DONE
-news
commentary-H. Khalif Khalifah
JULY 30, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA
– Mark the date, it will go down in history as the
time when
U. S.
President Barack Obama began to address the issue of
Black oppression in The United States of America.
The occasion is a meeting in his home of the two
protagonist who precipitated the most passionate
discussion about race in
America
since Dr. Kamau Kambon, on C-SPAN, commemorating the
10th anniversary of the Million Man March
offered up a “Final Solution.”
Dr Kambon, a former professor at the
North Carolina
State
University
said:
“We must find a Final Solution to stop the ethnic cleansing of Black
People.”
His statement was so
controversy that it was the single most memorable
from the 10th anniversary of The Million
Man March. The Million Man March is largest event in
history to dramatize the oppressive status of Black
people: The Million Man March on
October 16, 1995. Ten year celebration
was
October 16, 2005. Dr. Kambon made his
statement, not during ‘the march’ but on the eve of
the march.
His solution is so dynamic we shall not repeat it
here, as we are not using his solution, but the
ensuring discussion about “the statement heard
around the world.”
BARACK OBAMA WILL ADDRESS THE
ISSUE IN HIS OWN WAY
There is no doubt Obama will attempt to
address the issue of race in
America, in the
grand style that we all know so well. He has taken
time from a busy schedule to meet with Henry Louis
Gates and the
Cambridge
police officer who arrested him. President Obama got
into the incident when he made a remark about the
arrest of his friend, “Skip Gates,” and police “who
acted stupidly by arresting a man in his own home.”
Now things will never be the same for Obama’s
presidency.
There has been an absolute uproar in
America.
Heretofore, the race question in
America
is like the “third rail” on a rail road track: you
cannot touch it without getting burned to some
degree. But this U. S. President, Barack Obama, will
attempt turn his first encounter with the race
question into a an opportunity to address the larger
question.
Fortunately Obama already knows that
approximately half of the
U. S.
population will not like him, no matter what he does
or does not do. But he has already shown an ability
to gain the respect, if not the love, of his most
severe critics. He will try once again. But this
time will be different in too many ways to even
begin to enumerate: so we will address the one that
is like a cancer that appears to have no cure, other
than to remove it from the body completely.
SLAVERY INCORPORATED IN THE
U.S.
CONSTITUTION
The oppression of Black people
was incorporated into the U. S. Constitution at the
beginning of the “Experimental
Republic.” The
U.S. was, and still
is an experiment: never in history has a government
been established on a doctrine of White Supremacy.
Merciless brutality and injustice was used to
oppress Black people during the early years of the
Experiment. Today the brutality & injustice is
coupled with enough flexibility to incorporate Black
men, women and children who openly accept the status
quo, to be individually successful. They call the
individual achievements progress.
Maybe in an experiment, making progress is
the most important thing. But learned folk,
understand that just making of progress does not
equal a Just Society. A Just Society, in this
instance, means having done the things that remove
the entire cancer of chattel slavery, second-class
citizenship and other kinds of oppression.
Like everyone else, I am very interested to
see how Barack Obama applies his remedy to the clash
between Dr. Gates and Officer Crowley. No doubt it
will work in this particular instance. However
Barack Obama will also attempt to use this incident
to address the larger question of race in
America. And he
will also make some “progress.”
Unfortunately, up to now, there is nothing in
the record of Barack Obama to indicate an ability,
or willingness to remove the cancer in
America. He is on
record of opposing Reparations, which is the
fundamental tool needed to ‘begin the healing
process.”
Also, there is no doubt that the Obama
solution will translate into the age old
strategy of doing things to “make progress” in
America, rather
than remove the ‘cancer.’ Since progress is not
freedom, justice nor equality. The race question
will not only NOT go away, but will return again
and again. Those of us who advocate for and
demand Reparations can assure this fact.
H. Khalif Khalifah is founder
of www.khabooks.com. He is a
Publishing Consultant who lives in
Southampton County,
Virginia
publish@khabooks.com
HENRY LOUIS GATES GOES RIGHT
RATHER THAN LEFT AFTER SHEER HUMILIATION
-
news commentary – by H. Khalif
Khalifah
JULY 26, 2009 -
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA – The humiliation of one of
Black America’s greatest “systems” Black
intellectuals is an historic fact; it is fact also,
as I write this, that rather than go left to address
the humiliation, Henry Louis Gates is going further
to the right. However, if he was not a “systems”
Black intellectual, he would have taken the other
path to avenge his shaming before the world.
While
I am loathe to use terms like “left” and “right” in
discussing Black people in the United States of
America, they are very illustrative in this
instance.
Let us
just muse a bit on what it would mean for Black
America’s struggle for Freedom, Justice and Equality
had Dr. Gates gone left after his arrest, rather
than trying to remain right of center in his
comportment and fitra (disposition). Remember, he
was stupidly arrested in his own home in
Cambridge.
First
of all if he took a stand to the political left, he
would not have to now suffer a 2nd
humiliation in front of Black people. Maybe it
matters little to him that we know very well what is
in that ‘sandwich’ he is
eating on
international media. He is clearly eating s—t, or
“crap” as more proper folk may call it.
Of course by dining in the time honored way cowards
have won their way back to the good grace of
slave masters, bullies and authority figures;
humans who used and abuse them, Gates words indicate
he care couldn’t less about the feelings of Black
people. This indicates he has not been fully
awakened by his “wake up call.” Black people who
have seen this before, expect another call on him
shortly.
IF HE HAD GONE LEFT
He would, or could have gone on a National
Campaign Against Police Profiling against Black
people; not ‘minorities’ or “Blacks and Hispanics,”
but against Black individuals who are targeted by
police; have always been targeted by police and
other slave catching bounty hunters. And will
continue to target Black people so long as we have
not, up to now, effectively responded in kind.
At age
58, Louis Gates could have done much to erase some
of the absolutely distasteful things to us that he,
himself, has done in the spotlight he has lived in
for about 35 years: there are so many shameful words
he has spoken, and things he has done that we’ll
only mention one or two.
The most, absolutely distasteful, though laughable
things he has done, was go to such length to prove
that “he is not Black.” He went to great lengths and
probably grant money to research his genes. We first
heard his litany, on the Opra Winfrey Show. But last
week he gave his recitation to an even larger
audience.
“I
couldn’t be racist, my Father is 74% white and I
have been married to a white woman for 25 years.”
Gates was quoted as saying. The second thing he has
done that is distasteful and hurtful is his open,
self aggrandizing, unprincipled positions against
the Great Issue of our times – Reparations.
REPARATIONS CAMPAIGNED AGAINST
Rather than follow what many Blacks with a
low profile have done after suffering the misuse and
abuse of police, organize a serious relentless
campaign against such policing, he went the other
way: willing to excuse stupid behavior by police so
“we can move on.” What a dribble; we have heard none
this silly since Rodney King, beaten to a pulp, came
up asking “can’t we all just get along?” At least
Rodney was asking the wrong question. Gates through
his fresh humiliation was making a statement!
I have
no doubt that Henry Louis Gates knows the reason why
Black people are profiled in the first place. The
Black population in
America
will always be a threat to guilt ridden, or
ignorantly ridden, or riddled white people, who want
the world to think their status and wealth was
earned because they are white (sic).
Both type
individuals are against Reparations. This is
where the right leaning Louis Gates places
himself when he comes out so forcefully against
the payment of a debt that will “begin the
healing process” in Black America.
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CHILDREN’S DAY #1 AT
KHALIFAH’S ESTATES IS HISTORY
By
The
Newport
Newservice
JULY 23, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VA.
The first Children’s Day at Khalifah’s Estates, at
the reputed birth place of Nat Turner, is history.
There was not the expected “50 screaming children”
as expected and hoped for; but the twenty who did
come had the kinds of time only children can have,
when given the structure, time and space.
They came from
Newport News,
Hampton
and
Charlottesville
in
Virginia,
accompanied by a total of five adults. The children
carried the tables and chairs to the spacious front
lawn, under the majestic oak trees. Sister Maxine
poured a heart felt, inspiring libation.
During the agreed beforehand, “serious
program,” Uncle Brother Khalifah invited the 6 to 12
year old children to “air out your lungs. We know of
a fact that Nat Turner loved children.” Said
Khalifah
The children were also given some ‘bite size’
information about Reparations – and a reinforcement
of what
U. S.
President Barack Obama said at the NAACP convention,
“You must excel. You can be whatever you can think
of that you want to be.
“If any of you
ever feel that you can’t and really want to, call me
so we can talk it over and find a way for you to
succeed.” Finished up Khalifah.
The children then
did what children do, in a setting seemingly, made
for them…ring leevio, hide and seek, basketball,
volley ball - with lot’s of noise. Then after a
long, group march to the back fields, they returned
to a great dinner of fruits of water melon,
cherries, peaches, pears and desserts of Nadirah
home made cookies, banana putting, cake and abundant
drinks.
There was story
telling, as they were setting up by professional
story teller, Sister Margaret. But now as they were
eating, they took turns showing off their
considerable talents. This part ended with a round
of seconds on the food and an inspiring talk about
her book, by Nadirah Uhuru Khalifah.
The 21 year old college student
had the rapt attention of the energetic children.
After feasting on her desserts, they were very
interested in her remarks about her book:
“Memories
About a Remarkable Person, My Mother Reda Faard
Khalifah.”
Khalifah then led
the children in a workshop, to take suggestions
about how Children’s Day can be improved for the
year 2010. All were overjoyed to know that
Children’s Day will be institutionalized. No doubt
all will return next year – if they have the choice.
There was the usual abundance of painful stories for
such a collection of Black children: Broken homes
with absent mothers or fathers – in two known cases,
the where about of both parents was unknown by the
child.
The adults looking
out for the precious youngsters were: Page W. Hill,
Mildred Maxine Holland, Sister Ollie (who brought 15
from
Newport News),
Sister Monica and Dr. Margaret B. S. Bristow. And
the day was hosted by H. Khalif Khalifah and his
youngest daughter Nadirah.
Anyone interested
in attending Children’s Day 2010, or visiting any
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HENRY LOUIS GATES
ARREST
OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO CHANGE:
OBAMA SAYS ‘ANY OF US WOULD BE ANGRY’
-
news
commentary part two –
JULY 23, 2009
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA – Henry Louis Gates now have
President Barack Obama’s support, whatever he does
about his handcuffing and arrest by Cambridge, Ma
police. As the world knows by now, as President
Obama put it:
“Now, I don’t
know, not having been there and not seeing all the
facts, what role race played in that, but I think
it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be
pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police
acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was
already proof that they were in their own home; and,
number three, what I think we know, separate and
apart from this incident, is that there is a long
history in this country of African-Americans and
Latinos being stopped by law enforcement
disproportionately. And that’s just a fact.” He
added later that the incident was “a sign of how
race remains a factor in this society.”
Before
his remarks he said at the press conference that
“Skip Gates is a friend: so my remarks may be
biased.” He is president of the
United States of
America,
but he is still a Blackman in the
United States of
America.
He said some words that are 100% in support of his
friend. When “any one of us” get angry, we react in
some way.
WHAT WILL LOUIS
GATES DO WITH THE SUPPORT?
THE SUPPORT IS BOTH A BLESSING AND A RESTRICTION
Now that he has the support of his ‘his
friend’ the
U. S. president, let us now see what he does with the support. The support
is both a blessing and a restricting on his options.
But the restriction is only if he took a sharp turn
to the left (politically speaking), radicalizes his
fitra (disposition) and recanted on some of the
things he and his career have done to hurt precious
Black Issues, like Reparations for Black people in
the
United States of
America.
It is
more likely that Dr. Gates will act and do some
things in defense of his actions; because of his
likely racial profiling by
Cambridge,
MA
police. He may sue, and then withdraw the suit after
an apology by the arresting officer. Or he may just
chalk it up to being a Blackman in
America
who was abused but does nothing about it. In any
case, whatever way Dr. Gates reacts and follow up to
the humiliation, his Friend the President will be
castigated for this as surely as he was during the
presidential campaign because of his pastor Rev.
Jeremiah Wright.
BARACK OBAMA WILL
ADDRESS THE ISSUE HEAD ON
I predict we will now see how Barack
Obama addresses some Black Issue directly; and
it will likely be racial profiling. He appears
to have appointed an Attorney General who,
though Black, is also of the generation of
Blacks, in the
U.S.A.
who will ignore race, until it is in their face.
And of course race is the thing that will always
be in the face of a Blackman. Just as surely as
racial discrimination that drives the experiment
in white supremacy – called the
United States
of America.
H. Khalif Khalifah is founder of UBUS Communications Systems –
a Independent Black publisher located in
Southampton County,
Virginia.
He is also the author of several book, including a
“Selection of Writings 1982 to
1992.”
Go to www.khabooks.com or e-mail
Khalifah @ publish@khabooks.com
HENRY LOUIS GATES TO
HIS ‘WAKE UP’ CALL
HOW WILL HE RE-ACT?
-
news commentary –by
H. Khalif Khalifah
JULY 22, 2009 –
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VIRGINIA
http://www.khabooks.com/why.html

As far away from Boston as Ghana, in West
Africa, pictures have heard and seen the incredulous
look on the face one of the most celebrated Black
scholars of the last twenty-five years. Henry Louis
Gates, whatever one may think or feel about his
politics, marriage, some say , prostitution of the
precious history of Black people, his volume of work
in black philosophy, practice and actions speak for
itself. In fact, we are going to do just that: this
piece will not list any of his academic
achievements; instead, we shall comment on possible
reaction of this proud well connected Blackman to,
perhaps, the most humiliation experience of a Black
‘conservative’
since the bus and arrest of Carl Rowan, in
Washington, D. C., some 50 years ago.
NO LONGER JUST ABOUT LOUIS
GATES
First of all the arrest and abuse of Dr.
Gates is no longer just about him. Al Sharpton will
see to that, and have already said he is going to be
at his arraignment in
Boston,
whenever they bring him before the judge. If they
follow procedure, the charges against Mr. Gates must
be dismissed by a Judge. Further more, just because
a charge is dismissed does not mean the criminal
record will not be just as much a part of Mr. Gates
as his scholarship in Black history.
With the above known facts about what happens
when a person is arrested by police, the only thing
uncertain is the reaction of Mr. Gates to them. He
may sue the city of
Cambridge
and possibly make them “pay though the nose,” or he
can go quietly into the way that
Cambridge
has already laid out for him. Or, if he is fully
awakened, he will change his fitra (disposition) and
let Rev. Al Sharpton lead his reaction to the
arrest.
Or, better still for black people, he will do
what Thurgood Marshall did as a 87-year old Supreme
Court Justice, in 1987 –castigate the white founding
fathers for such a system. Since he, at 58 years
old, has more vigor and energy, hopefully Mr. Gates
will come out with the kinds of militancy and
advocacy for the most radical end of the long
spectrum of Black political thought and practice.
This is the way that we feel will be most beneficial
for Black people. However, you can be sure that it
will not be best for the career Mr. Gates has built
in “the system.” That is,
America’s
experiment in white supremacy.
Of course the last option will not be
taken by Henry Louis Gates: he would have to
take back some of his opposition to the Demand
of Black people for Reparations, for example.
But then on the other hand, whatever his
reaction to the humiliating pictures – the words
may be forgotten quite easily – but the pictures
are worth more than a thousand words.
H. Khalif Khalifah is founder
of one of Black America’s major publishers, UBUS
Communications Systems, in
Southampton County,
Virginia.
He welcomes e-mail at
publish@khabooks.com www.khabooks.com
DR. LOUIS GATES WAKE UP CALL
ARRESTED GOING INTO HIS OWN HOME
- new commentary
-
by H. Khalif Khalifah
[special to the Newport Newservice] ..........JULY 21, 2009
-
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY,
VIRGINIA
– The Arrest of Louis Gates, the high achieving,
Clarence Thomas demeanor[ed], Harvard Professor
received another personal wake up call about life in
white oppression. That Black people cannot ever
afford to forget how brutal this experience happens
to be, regardless of who you happen to be.
The arrest of a Gates, in the home
that he shares with his white wife and little
children, is a warning alert to every Blackman in
America
who thinks for one minute that they “have it made.”
Men of this fitra (disposition) also agree with
rabid white men and women who say “there is no need
for race based politics, now that we have a Black
president.”
Well,
quiet as it may be kept; it is also a wake up call
for President Barack Obama, himself. But Obama is so
smart, no doubt, he needs no warning. Anyone who
thinks he does need to be warned, or have not
ALREADY felt the sting of racism, are probably also
are of the mindset of others who don’t understand
just how smart he had to be to become president –
but that is another story.
WHEN GIVEN HALF A CHANCE
The story here is that a small framed
Blackman, born in West Virginia, went to the best of
schools, excelled at what he does, because of the
innate genius and drive that propel certain of us
into levels in societies that cause one and most all
to marvel and say “how did he get there?” Well the
answer to that is simple:
If
just given half a chance, the Blackman will show and
prove that the genes from his heritage are
vouchsafed and subject to be exhibited anytime he or
she is awakened. As was stated in my book, “The
Words, Acts and Deeds of Khalifah 1982 to
1992” on page
262, in the article titled
Every
Conscious African in America is, was, or is
potentially ‘ a Black Revolutionary Nationalist, it
states:
We are talking about America’s blessings:
“Many
of the highly intelligent and talented Africans in
America have chosen NOT to relate to ‘the struggle’ on a personal life style
altering basis. And most of the ones who do, turn to
the ‘white man’ to finance their programs – writing
proposals and other methods of begging.”
YES
AMERICA
HAS BEEN BLESSED
“Yes,
America has been blessed that, as a nation, it has
not had to contend with the brains of such talents
as Andrew Young, Thomas Bradley, Harold Washington,
Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, etc. as physical
opponents, who would have solved their financial
needs in their work, for complete African
redemption, with the Gun, rather than to sit down,
using the pen, to write proposal to the government
or others, for the money they needed to carry out
and achieve their objectives – rather than use the
gun.”
The above was written in 1983. It is now 2009 so
we have many other super achieving Blacks we can
point to, whose aspirations for Black Freedom is,
“in the system” that is based on this U. S.
experience in white supremacy. We will not name any
save Louis Gates and Clarence Thomas, but our point
is, if these intelligent Black men and women had
taken a more direct approach to “The Struggle” of
Black people,
America
would have fallen some time ago.
Luckily, the ‘brain drain” from the National Black
Community can never get us all. And also, luckily,
some of the DUMB white supremacist in America cannot
resist “putting, this Black or that Black, no matter
his achievements, or where he happens to be [like
Justice Thurgood Marshall at well known black tie
dinner story], some nitwit cannot contain his
contempt black people and will let them know to them
they are still just a n……..r!
Now
Mr. Louis Gates will take the soothing
apologies, that white people reserve for Black
victims who love them; he will use this white
salve and try to forget, and hope the world
forgets about this ultimate humiliation.
Hopefully he is thankful that the police did not
shoot and kill him. The danger to the Blackmans
life is elevated in every encounter with the
police. Apparently Mr. Gates forgot this fact.
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