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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 131^st Street between 5^th 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.

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  www.khabooks.com 

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 [read more: scroll down]
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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 20^th 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.

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 70^th 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.

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.    

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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 10^th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MILLION MAN MARCH IN OCTOBER 2005 – THE “REVISIT” IS OCTOBER 17, 2009
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------by 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, 2^nd 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 18^th 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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 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.

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 10^th 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 10^th 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.”

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 2^nd 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).

KHALIFAH A PUBLISHER WHO LIVES IN SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA: WRITE HIM AT publish@khabooks.com www.khabooks.com

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 day at the Birth Place of Nat Turner, should start early. The price of admission for adults is to bring a child between 6 and 12 years old. e-mail publish@khabooks.com or call 434-378-2140.

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

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.

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!

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