h - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T15:53:12Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/hWill Barack Obama Be The Next UN Secretary General? (Video)https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/will-barack-obama-be-the-next-un-secretary-general-video2016-10-07T19:00:00.000Z2016-10-07T19:00:00.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0UHQndAdsA/V-3Fn1arJEI/AAAAAAACe_4/8NVWqAbsT-AACO8v554FlUWQLyN8XPbCwCLcB/s1600/Obama%2Bfor%2BUN%2BSecretary%2BGeneral.png" target="_blank" style="text-align:center;font-size:14pt;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0UHQndAdsA/V-3Fn1arJEI/AAAAAAACe_4/8NVWqAbsT-AACO8v554FlUWQLyN8XPbCwCLcB/s400/Obama%2Bfor%2BUN%2BSecretary%2BGeneral.png?width=320" width="320" class="align-left" alt="Obama%2Bfor%2BUN%2BSecretary%2BGeneral.png?width=320" /></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong>NB COMMENTARY:</strong><span><strong> </strong> There's a rumor going around that Barack Hussein Obama may be elected into the Office of Secretary General come this December, 2016. </span> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Now wouldn't having Obama as Secretary General of the UN, just bust a lot of buttons??!! </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Obama would be the perfect choice, as he is most in alignment with the type of puppet they need. But wouldn't that be some history right there, the 1st Black President, and the first African American to be Secretary General of the UN!!! </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">OMG, I see stars, I see fireworks, I see no fly zones all over the planet, and I see drones.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;text-align:center;"> <em><strong><a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/09/will-barack-obama-be-next-un-secretary.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xS-7c4TbkkY?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">Quiet as it's kept he was allowed to preside over the security counsel which was unprecedented. Quiet as it's kept the US has an overriding veto in the UN. And even more quiet is the fact that these folks do whatever they want to do. So if they decide that this is what they want, who cares about rules, laws, protocols. They are all made just to be revised and at the behest of the revisionists who spring up amongst us from time to time.</span><br /> <span style="font-weight:normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">With Obama as Secretary General of the UN, the most lauded President in US history, the pronounced Global citizen, the man who literally stated at his last speech at the UN that a new day and a New World was in order to the cheers of all the straw voters. What's to stop them? Everybody would just roll over and support the rolling out </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-weight:normal;">of the New World Order, hands down. </span><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;">Imagine, he will be able to sanction all his unsanctionable deeds. His predecessors, Kofi </span><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;">Anan, there during the kidnapping of Aristide from Haiti.. Moon, watching Libya burn.. would pale in the face of Mr. Drone Master as he rules the skies.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:18.6667px;">We are in for a roller coaster ride.</span></div><div style="margin:0in;"><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;">Lord Have Mercy.. say it isn't so, Joe. Lie to me, tell me that he is</span> <span style="font-size:18.6667px;">NOT</span> <span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;">a party to the BIGGEST LIE EVER PERPETRATED ON THE ENTIRE WORLD! </span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;"><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;"> </span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;font-family:cambria;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;text-align:center;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SDqhONb_MSE/V-3Fy_20-QI/AAAAAAACe_8/QGseYZOvnVspnt7LIhCNqvSdPS4Hx9AvgCLcB/s1600/the%2Bdrone%2Bmaster.png" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SDqhONb_MSE/V-3Fy_20-QI/AAAAAAACe_8/QGseYZOvnVspnt7LIhCNqvSdPS4Hx9AvgCLcB/s320/the%2Bdrone%2Bmaster.png" width="320" alt="the%2Bdrone%2Bmaster.png" /></a></div><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;"><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;"> </span></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;"><i>In slightly less than four months, President Barack Obama will be without a job—unless he has another one already lined up.</i></span></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;"><i>Rumors are swirling that Obama is already lobbying to take the job of United Nations Secretary-General when Ban Ki-moon's final five-year term expires on Dec. 31. Those rumors are similar to ones made in the final year of President Bill Clinton's second term in office.</i></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;"><a href="http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60226-rumors-swirl-of-president-obama-and-the-united-nations" style="font-weight:normal;">http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60226-rumors-swirl-of-president-obama-and-the-united-nations</a></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">Some unprecedented news, folks. <span style="font-weight:normal;">Never in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. President taken the chairmanship of the powerful UN Security Council. Perhaps it is because of what could arguably be a Constitutional prohibition against doing so. To wit: Section 9 of the Constitution says:</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;"> "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">Nonetheless, the rotating chairmanship of the council goes to the U.S. this month. The normal course of business would have U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice take the gavel. However, this time will be different. Constitution be damned, Barack Hussein Obama has decided to put HIMSELF in the drivers seat, and will preside over global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament talks slated to begin September 24th. The Financial Times says:</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;"> "Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council."</span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Tahoma;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.rense.com/general87/ob1.htm" style="font-weight:normal;">http://www.rense.com/general87/ob1.htm</a><span style="font-family:cambria;font-weight:normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60226-rumors-swirl-of-president-obama-and-the-united-nations" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/60226-rumors-swirl-of-president-obama-and-the-united-nations</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">Rhetorics: President Obama's speech was nearly the 50 years after the historic speech by then U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Berlin in 1963, during which he proclaimed the famous sentence: 'Ich bin ein Berliner'</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344787/Obamas-Berlin-Wall-US-President-issues-warning-austerity-Europe-bulletproof-glass.html" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344787/Obamas-Berlin-Wall-US-President-issues-warning-austerity-Europe-bulletproof-glass.html</span></a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#117bb8;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">President Obama just gave $500 million of Your Money to the UN Green Fund</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/08/president-obama-just-gave-500-million-of-your-money-to-un-green-fund/" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/08/president-obama-just-gave-500-million-of-your-money-to-un-green-fund/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">Secretary-General Ban congratulates US President Barack Obama on re-election</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43430#.V-0rH-9rhpg" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43430#.V-0rH-9rhpg</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">In his final speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Barack Obama warned world leaders of deep and dangerous divisions between those who support more global integration and those who want to retreat into isolationism.</span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article103601887.html" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article103601887.html</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#19232d;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">Obama and Ban deliver final U.N. speeches no holds barred</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2016/09/obama-and-ban-deliver-final-u-n-speeches-no-holds-barred/" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2016/09/obama-and-ban-deliver-final-u-n-speeches-no-holds-barred/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">Obama, in final U.N. speech, calls for world ‘course correction’</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/09/20/obama-in-final-u-n-speech-calls-for-world-course-correction/" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/09/20/obama-in-final-u-n-speech-calls-for-world-course-correction/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#322f31;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">The controversial veto power</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.bricplusnews.com/affairs/united-nations-need-reform/" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.bricplusnews.com/affairs/united-nations-need-reform/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">The veto power is not the only issue with the United Nations Security Council. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/un-security-council-must-be-revamped-or-risk-irrelevance-kofi-annan-warns">Kofi Annan, a former United Nations Security General criticised its make up</a>. Annan claims that, in order for the UN Security Council to prevent fading into irrelevance, it must admit more permanent members. The UN Security Council seems to have been frozen in time. Its current permanent members seem an anachronism, failing to reflect the geopolitical realities of the current age. Stuck in a time when the world seemed divided into three zones, the West, with capitalism, and the East, communism, and the developing ‘third world’ up for grabs. France is no longer at the front line of a European advance against communism. China and Russia no longer represent a single axis of the world’s powers. As Kofi Annan rightly claims, the UN Security Council must change.</span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.bricplusnews.com/affairs/united-nations-need-reform/" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">http://www.bricplusnews.com/affairs/united-nations-need-reform/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:small;">United Nations, New York, 24 September 2009: The Security Council, <span style="font-weight:normal;">in a summit meeting this morning presided over by the US President Barack Obama, adopted Resolution 1887, which, among other things, calls upon the States that are party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to comply fully with all their obligations and fulfill their treaty commitments. It also calls upon all States to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">Todays meeting only the fifth in the Council's history to be held at the level of heads of State and government began with the unanimous adoption of a resolution by which the 15-member body voiced grave concern about the threat of nuclear proliferation and the need for global action to combat it.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">Although we averted a nuclear nightmare during the Cold War, we now face proliferation of a scope and complexity that demands new strategies and new approaches, said Mr. Obama, the first US President to preside over a Security Council meeting.</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">Just one nuclear weapon exploded in a city be it New York or Moscow, Tokyo or Beijing, London or Paris could kill hundreds of thousands of people. And it would badly destabilize our security, our economies, and our very way of life.</span></span></div><div style="margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTB-LDWoETA" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTB-LDWoETA</span></a></div></div></div></div>Download "One Hundred" a new single by Alex H off the E.P. Better Late Than Neverhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/single-alex-h-one-hun2016-03-09T19:30:00.000Z2016-03-09T19:30:00.000ZAmanda MzOnPoint Goldbenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/AmandaMzOnPointGoldben<div>"One Hundred" is the 1st official single off the E.P Better Late Than Never which is now available on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/better-late-than-never-ep/id1068216562">iTunes</a><br /><br /><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2523" src="http://streetsonpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Moldiv_1449637456765-1600x1600-1024x1024.jpg" alt="Moldiv_1449637456765-1600x1600" width="497" height="497" />Alex<br /><br /><center><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248926152&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450"></iframe></center>Check out the official video to "One Hundred" below:<br /><center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ucC-EjV1Gw?wmode=opaque" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></center><p style="text-align:center;">Connect w/ Alex H</p><p style="text-align:center;">Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dyversitymusic">@dyversitymusic</a> Instagram: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/alex_h_music">Alex_H_Music</a> Website: <a href="http://www.alexhmusic.net">www.alexhmusic.net</a><br /> Buy the Album via iTunes <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/better-late-than-never-ep/id1068216562">HERE</a></p></div>April 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activisthttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/april-27th-is-the-130th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hubert-henry2013-04-26T15:45:00.000Z2013-04-26T15:45:00.000ZJeffrey B. Perryhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JeffreyBPerry<div><p style="text-align:center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">April 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in "World’s Great Men of Color" as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.” Rogers adds that “No one worked more seriously and indefatigably to enlighten” others and “none of the Afro-American leaders of his time had a saner and more effective program.” Labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph described Harrison as “the father of Harlem Radicalism.” Harrison’s friend and pallbearer, Arthur Schomburg, fully aware of his popularity, eulogized to the thousands attending Harrison’s Harlem funeral that he was also “ahead of his time.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Born in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, in 1883, to a Bajan mother and a Crucian father, Harrison arrived in New York as a seventeen-year-old orphan in 1900. He made his mark in the United States by struggling against class and race oppression, by helping to create a remarkably rich and vibrant intellectual life among African Americans, and by working for the enlightened development of the lives of “the common people.” He consistently emphasized the need for working class people to develop class-consciousness; for “Negroes” to develop race consciousness, self-reliance, and self-respect; and for all those he reached to challenge white supremacy and develop modern, scientific, critical, and independent thought as a means toward liberation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">A self-described “radical internationalist,” Harrison was extremely well versed in history and events in Africa, Asia, the Mideast, the Americas, and Europe. More than any other political leader of his era, he combined class-consciousness and anti-white supremacist race consciousness in a coherent political radicalism. He opposed capitalism and maintained that white supremacy was central to capitalist rule in the United States. He emphasized that “politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea”; that “as long as the Color Line exists, all the perfumed protestations of Democracy on the part of the white race” were “downright lying”; that “the cant of ‘Democracy’” was “intended as dust in the eyes of white voters”; and that true democracy and equality for “Negroes” implied “a revolution . . . startling even to think of.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Working from this theoretical framework, he was active with a wide variety of movements and organizations and played signal roles in the development of what were, up to that time, the largest class radical movement (socialism) and the largest race radical movement (the “New Negro”/Garvey movement) in U.S. history. His ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the 1960s and his thoughts on “democracy in America” offer penetrating insights on the limitations and potential of America in the twenty-first century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Harrison served as the foremost Black organizer, agitator, and theoretician in the Socialist Party of New York during its 1912 heyday; he founded the first organization (the Liberty League) and the first newspaper ("The Voice") of the militant, World War I-era “New Negro” movement; and he served as the editor of the Negro World and principal radical influence on the Garvey movement during its radical high point in 1920. His views on race and class profoundly influenced a generation of “New Negro” militants including the class radical A. Philip Randolph and the race radical Marcus Garvey. Considered more race conscious than Randolph and more class conscious than Garvey, Harrison is the key link in the ideological unity of the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement--the labor and civil rights trend associated with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the race and nationalist trend associated with Malcolm X. (Randolph and Garvey were, respectively, the direct links to King marching on Washington, with Randolph at his side, and to Malcolm, whose parents were involved with the Garvey movement, speaking militantly and proudly on street corners in Harlem.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Harrison was not only a political radical, however. Rogers described him as an “Intellectual Giant and Free-Lance Educator,” whose contributions were wide-ranging, innovative, and influential. He was an immensely skilled and popular orator and educator who spoke and/or read six languages; a highly praised journalist, critic, and book reviewer (reportedly the first regular Black book reviewer "in Negro newspaperdom"); a pioneer Black activist in the freethought and birth control movements; a bibliophile and library builder and popularizer who helped develop the 135th Street Public Library into what became known as the internationally famous Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; a pioneer Black lecturer for the New York City Board of Education, and one of its foremost orators).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">April 27th is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Hubert Henry Harrison -- there is much to learn from the life and work of this extraordinary intellectual and activist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.jeffreybperry.net" target="_blank">http://www.jeffreybperry.net</a></p><p> </p></div>The Afro is Americanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-afro-is-american2012-06-14T04:07:06.000Z2012-06-14T04:07:06.000ZRaynard Jacksonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RaynardJackson<div><p><b>June 14, 2012</b> </p><p></p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p></p><p>In last week’s column I wrote about how the NAACP has lost its mind with its resolution supporting gay marriage. I have very little faith or confidence in most of the traditional Black institutions—NABJ, churches, fraternities, sororities, HBCUs, etc.</p><p></p><p>But after attending a lunch this past Wednesday, my faith and confidence is a tad bit stronger. It was though I was taken back in time to a better time and place within the Black community; and after the luncheon, I really feel like we can get back to the “golden years” of Black engagement in our society. </p><p></p><p>The Afro-American Newspapers (<a href="http://www.afro.com/">http://www.afro.com/</a>) celebrated its 120<sup>th</sup> anniversary with a luncheon. A couple of months ago, their General Manager Edgar Brookins, called to ask me if I could talk with some people about buying a few tables to support the event. I immediately told him that I would personally buy a table. Brookins and the Afro have been supporters of many of my endeavors here in the DC market. Brookins is always responsive to my calls and the paper has been carrying my column for years. So, when they need my support, I will always be there.</p><p></p><p>The Afro has a storied history and an evolving future that is just as bright as it’s past. The paper was founded in 1892 by former slave, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Murphy,_Sr.">John H. Murphy, Sr.</a> when he merged his church publication “The Sunday School Helper” with two similar publications in Baltimore, MD. The newspaper is one of the oldest remaining family-owned newspapers in the U.S. (Black or white).</p><p></p><p>Currently, John Jacob “Jake” Oliver, the great grandson of the Afro-American Newspaper’s founder, is the CEO of the newspaper. A graduate of Fisk University and Columbia University School of Law, Oliver left a promising legal career in corporate America to return to the family business. </p><p></p><p>Under Oliver’s leadership, the Afro has been able to remain relevant by being the first Black newspaper to continue to print hard copies, as well as to be fully digital—being assessable on the internet. If you want to know what going on in the Black community within the DC metro area, the Afro is a must read.</p><p></p><p>Oliver has continued down the path of relevance by hiring a dear friend, Avis-Thomas Lester as their new executive editor. She spent over 20 years as a writer for the Washington Post Newspaper. She will bring a new, fresh perspective to the newspaper and position it to continue to be relevant to our community with the full understanding that we are living in a global marketplace.</p><p></p><p>Under Oliver and Lester’s leadership, the Afro will again branch out to bring news from throughout the world, especially from the continent of Africa. As they begin to cover news from a global perspective, hopefully this will lead to increased readership on the internet and an increased subscriber base. An annual subscription is only $ 40 U.S.</p><p></p><p>Within the Black community, we often complain about how we and our African brothers are portrayed in the media. Well, now we have a chance to do something about it. For as little as $ 40 U.S. a year, the Afro will have the money to report on global issues. </p><p></p><p>If you want to see our community covered in a different manner, let’s commit to finding 1,000 people between now and September to take out a subscription to the Afro. If after a year you don’t like the coverage, then cancel the subscription; but if they meet your liking, renew your subscription.</p><p></p><p>We have to be what we are looking for. If we want fair, diverse coverage within our community, then we must enable those who best know how to do this to have the money necessary to fulfill this goal. Remember, when all is said and done, there is more said than done.</p><p></p><p><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. His website is: <a href="http://www.raynardjackson.com">www.raynardjackson.com</a>.</i></p></div>LIGHT AS A FEATHER: THE SELF ACCUSING SPIRIThttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/light-as-a-feather-the-self-accusing-spirit2011-12-27T13:36:49.000Z2011-12-27T13:36:49.000ZH. Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><p align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">LIGHT AS A FEATHER!</span></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">THE SELF ACCUSING SPIRIT</span></strong></p><p align="center">By H. Khalif Khalifah</p><p>DECEMBER 26, 2011</p><p>NAT TURNER LIBRARY, SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA – Though we know it is a fact, still it never ceases to amaze that all religions and spiritual practices appear to find their origin inscribed in stones and other edifices in Ancient Kemit. It appears that our ancestors left the documentation to guide and provide for us during the opportune times of this age.</p><p> An oft referenced portion of the Holy Qur’an called “The Self Accusing Spirit” was likely adopted from one of the hall marks of Kemitian teachings. Of course the story is translated and told in varied ways but the end result is the same: the aspirant’s heart is weighed during the early days of the Winter Solstice by the balancing of a feather… the story goes something like this…</p><p>THE SOLAR CYCLE</p><p> At the ¾ mark of the annual Cycle of our Sun through the Cosmos, we are at the end of the Harvest (Autumn Equinox): We’re reflecting on the years’ events, the successes as well as the lack of, and we are judging according to how well we enacted our “words, acts and deeds,” in taking care of our duties and responsibilities in life.</p><p> Back at the beginning of the Cycle (the Spring Equinox) we planted spiritual seeds along with physical ones. Both seeds germinated, grew a plant that we nurtured during the summer, it bloomed and ripened into fruit.</p><p> In the autumn we gathered the fruit, storing some away – identifying the best seeds to save for planting in the coming Spring Equinox. We also examined fruits that did not meet our expectations – identifying the low performing seeds to determine if we want to keep or throw them away.</p><p> <b>This is where the “self accusing spirit” comes in:</b></p><p> Most of us are quite adept in examining physical fruits. But when it comes to the spirit, we tend to not devote equal time to the examination of our spiritual fruits: if we are even aware that spiritual seeds were also planted that are just as grow able as physical – and they too yielded crops.</p><p> I am aware that this information may be beyond the average person. But because of Neterian Scholars, like Ra Un Nefer Amen, Dr. Muata Ashby & many, many others, there are a sizable market of Afrikans who are following the above…for the others, please just bear with me as I try to share my introspective thoughts on this first day of Kwanzaa: a <i>“celebration of the first fruits from the harvest.”</i></p><p> Us who were observant, to a certain degree of the happenings in the creation during the 2011 Solar Cycle are now into some serious introspection. It is introspection rather than reflection because the level of our successful Spiritual harvest will allow for a good “judging” as to where we have progressed: no one else qualifies to do this: it is our conscious that will judge us. We are in a introspective disposition.</p><p> The decision that is made about our progress may well mean we’ll be entitled to add titles to our names to reflect the degree of our success. If in the unlikely event you have mastered each Neter, or Law, you will now be Ausar.</p><p>On the other hand, if you didn’t reach your goals, you’ll always have 2012 Solar Cycle to master what it is that you didn’t this year. That is unless your life is so imbalanced that you lose it…</p><p>Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on your degree of assent) us human beings are just as dependent on each other to evolve, as we are dependent upon the Laws of MAAT to master any particular one of them.</p><p>There is no shame in whatever is determined our hearts weigh at the Final Judgment this month. If your heart did not balance the proverbial feather, your punishment will be determined entirely as to how well you did overall.</p><p>There is only “shame” is understanding that your planting fell short of expectations. Meanwhile, your understanding gives you the wisdom to begin preparation in THIS SEASON for the planting in the coming Spring Equinox. This includes the inconvenience that your life may have been an apparently, impediment to the growth or expression of some other individual.</p><p>If anyone feel that my life have impeded the expression, growth or evolvement of your own, please call for a discussion to find a dissolution. Remember, there is always a Right way to achieve everything.</p><p> Peace!</p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>H. Khalif Khalifah is the Founder and director of The Nat Turner Library in Southampton County, Virginia. 434-378-2140. Khalifah23844@yahoo.com</p></div>THE ACQUISITION & PROPER USE OF POWER: Reading and Discussion Sunday 11/6/11https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-acquisition-amp-proper-use-of-power-reading-and-discussion2011-11-05T19:17:56.000Z2011-11-05T19:17:56.000ZH. Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><p align="center"><b>THE ACQUISITION & PROPER USE OF POWER:</b></p><p align="center"><b>The Destruction of White Supremacy</b></p><p>Part One of my new book will be read, Sunday Nov. 6, from 10am to 11am sharp; a discussion, questions & answers 11am to 12 noon.</p><p> Of course Reparations/Expropriations and other aspects of the Just Law (MAAT) is topic # One: the premise for the entire 417 page book is "Black people have all the knowledge needed to win our Liberation. Struggle: Since "Knowledge, indeed is Power, this is not the problem.</p><p> “The Problem is the lack of understanding of the Knowledge/Power. In other words the understanding of Knowledge/Power begets the equivalent WISDOM to utilize the Essence that is in the Knowledge/Power</p><p> (U + K = W). If you have a large degree of understanding; or small degree, that is the amount of Wisdom you’ll have to act on the essence of the Knowledge/Power.”<br />THE TEXT</p><p> The "Text" is based on The Wisdom of the Universe, synthesized from translations/interpretations of Ancient Kemit, as well as other Spiritual and Religious expressions of Humanity.</p><p> To Buy a copy of the book and read along, go to <a href="http://www.natturnerlibrary.com/">www.natturnerlibrary.com</a> updated photos are at the websites…</p><p> </p><p>Listen to "The Acquisition And Prope..." hosted by Khalifah from the NAT TURNER LIBRARY on 11/6/2011 10:00 AMEDT #BlogTalkRadio <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nat-turner-library/2011/11/06/the-acquisition-and-proper-use-of-power">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nat-turner-library/2011/11/06/the-acquisition-and-proper-use-of-power</a></p><p> </p></div>REFLECTION ON THE 2011 SOLAR CYCLE: The Spring Equinox & Summer Solstice is in The Bank!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/reflection-on-the-2011-solar-cycle-the-spring-equinox-amp-summar2011-09-21T19:00:00.000Z2011-09-21T19:00:00.000ZH. Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><p align="center">REFLECTIONS ON THE 2011 SOLAR CYCLE</p><p align="center">The Spring Equinox & The Summer Solstice is in the Bank</p><p align="center">- Kemit Spiritualism Analysis –</p><p align="center">- </p><p>by Sebek H. Khalif Khalifah</p><p> </p><p>SEPTEMBER 21, 2011</p><p> </p><p>THE NAT TURNER LIBRARY, DREWRYVILLE, VA – First of all I hope that all who are sincerely with me, had a successful Spring and Summer. And whether you are <i>into</i> Ancient Kemit Spiritualism, or not, I want one and all to know that the Ancestors of Black people inscribed in stone some of the goings on during the Spring and Summer. When the Autumn Equinox arrives (today, Sept. 21) the travel approximates ½ of the distance that our sun moved through the Cosmos since the Spring.</p><p>As we have intimated in our Spring Equinox Essay<i>: “In the Spring Time a ‘Special Something’ visits the Earth, Energizing everything, springing what was dormant back to life.”</i> I said us Farmers understand that the “Special Something” is going to happen each year: so we prepare our fields and plant our seeds to receive it – knowing that those who prepare the fields will have a better chance to grow a good crop: therefore reap a good harvest during the Fall Equinox.</p><p>OBSERVING AND PRACTICING…</p><p> Us who are into both observing and practicing Kemit Spiritualism understand “The Special Something” will also energize our Spirits: so we also prepare Self to receive as we prepared our Land. And just as we do not plant seeds in the earth, receive the “Special Something” and just leave it, we understand it has to be cultivated and cared for throughout the summer months. Your success in planting, cultivation and caring will determine how the crop ripens in the Fall. If we have had a successful planting, cultivation and caring, we can then expect a successful ripening and Harvest.</p><p>Every farmer knows about planting and what must be done to reap successfully. Not everyone understand the processes of planting, Cultivating and Reaping Spiritual “crops.” Fortunately for Black people [others too if they behave themselves and not distort what they don’t understand; or exploit “The Teachings” to make money, or acquire power to enslave, oppress, second-class people); it is fortunate for Black people because our Ancestors in Ancient Kemit inscribed explicit instructions on how to plant, cultivate and reap a good Spiritual Harvest.</p><p>A DOUBLE FORTUNATE/BLESSING: THE MESSAGE</p><p> & BLACK SCHOLAR TRANSLATORS OF HIEROGLYPHICS</p><p> Many are convinced that The Messenger of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the greatest Spiritual Blessing Black people have received during our captivity. The Message opened our beings, individually, and as a Nation, to receive Special Something. He was the first to tell us we are the Originals and that as such, our nature is Peace because we are really created of the Divine Creator. He told us we are Gods & Goddesses.</p><p> The second Great Blessing is the fact that young Black Kemetian Scholars made it their business to read and translate the Hieroglyphs, as a service. The ones whose work I am most familiar with are Ra Un Nefer Amen & Dr. Muata Ashby. Most of what I recount here is based on the distillation they have shared with the world about their translation of the legacy from our Ancestors. What others were doing, defending and challenging the ‘evil politically, they matched this in the careful attention to the subject of Spirituality. We are thankful!</p><p>THE 500 YEAR MAAFA ESTABLISHED</p><p>THE GREAT ISSUE OF THE AGES: REPARATIONS</p><p> Of course since the Maafa that visited Black people some 5,000 years ago, the main things that happens around our Nation of people, community of people, neighborhood of people, family, Spring, Summer or Fall, is to reclaim that which was lost. In a word, Reparations is The Great Issue not only in our own time, it has been the overall Issue that we have addressed since the advent of the white man’s entry into our world. What does Advocates for Reparations plant; and what will we now reap? Remember the reaping is both Physical and Spiritual. Both will be extremely deep!</p><p> </p><p> We shall end Part One by indicating what Part Two will consist of: I will share how I came to go deeper into the Study of Ancient Kemit: The Science of Life: Amen, Ausar, Tehudi, Sekher, MAAT, HeruKhuti, Heru, Het/Heru, Sebek, Auset & Geb.</p><p> </p><ol><li>What I was doing BEFORE the Spring Equinox; the period where I’d prepared to Receive the “Special Blessings” of Spring.</li><li>What books I consulted;</li><li>What part of my Religion/Spirituality was opted out/in as I embraced the practice of the Science of Life from Ancient Kemit.</li><li>What impact did my practice have on the institutional programs at the Khalifah Health Ranch: The Name Change; Man Up Camp for Children and Adults, Kujichagulia Village, The Black Book Awards, The National Coalition of Black Elders, N'COBRA, Writing, Publishing, Buying and Selling Books.</li></ol><p>H. KHALIF KHALIFAH is a Journalis living in Southampton County Virginia: his latest book is The Acquisition and Proper Use of Power.</p></div>PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BIG JOB SPEECH New Analysishttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/president-barack-obama-big-job-speech-new-analysis2011-09-09T16:38:29.000Z2011-09-09T16:38:29.000ZH. Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><strong>PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S BIG SPEECH</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800080;"><strong> WITH JOBS ON HIS MIND</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>- NEWS ANALYSIS</strong> –</span></p><p> <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">By H. Khalif Khalifah SEPTEMBER 9, 2011</span></strong></p><p>NAT TURNER LIBRARY, DREWRYVILLE, VA – The eagerly awaited big speech to cure the ill United States economy was delivered in standard, grand, convincing style by President Barack Obama.</p><p><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><em>“The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy,” he said.</em></span></strong></p><p> If Barack Obamas’ reference to “we” meant his own staff and democratic party, the answer to the question would be a resounding yes. But the adjective in the sentence of circus fit squarely on the face of the Republican opposition. Yes, the democrats, with their coalition of Union workers, women, White liberals and Black Boolays, would definitely do something about unemployment. If it meant spending more tax money, so what?</p><p> Unfortunately this still would not address the main problem that the United States of America face in its relatively short history: I’ll tell you why! But first let’s examine more of the remedy proposed by President Barack Obama. From a philosophical historical perspective.</p><p>While, as a Blackman first, I see the “words, acts and deeds” of the President and his Co-Rulers of the U. S. Empire, as “white folks business;” sadly because enough of us are not taking care of “Black Folks business,” we are captured, or captive to the net worth of the detriment of “white folks business.”</p><p> So disabuse yourself of the notion that a President of the United States of America can, or will be about “Black Business.” This will not happen. White business, without a doubt for anyone who cares to measure it properly, is a problem of how to survive the GROSS mismanagement of the greatest wealth and technology in the history of mankind.</p><p> Black people were/are the “stock” in their market. And like all “stock” in the U. S. Stock /Market, its value rise and fall according to the demand for it: What White former owners of the commodity called Black people want this stock today? why?</p><p> <strong>BLACK BUSINESS AS THE “STOCK”</strong></p><p><strong>IN THE WHITE SUPREMACIST STOCK MARKET</strong></p><p> <em>Please don’t take exception to the term calling Black people the “stock” in their market. If you are not aware of this fact, please do your own research vs Wall Street; Stock Market & etc.</em></p><p>Since we were the original stock that drives the White Supremacist based U. S. market/economy, it is not difficult to see Black people in the light of what happens when some “hot” popular “stock” hit the White Stock Market. Everyone wants to make a capital gain by buying the stock; or selling the stock. But once that stock is no longer useful to the Buyer or the Seller, it ceases to be valuable and in demand: so what happens then? <em>They sell it for whatever they can get for it.</em></p><p>In the beginning of America, Black people as “stock” were the hot commodity. Our capitivity generated enormous wealth, I have said elsewhere, for <em><span style="color:#ff0000;">every fortune that was owned by the likes of Rockefeller, Mellon, Carnegie, Biltmore, & etc. it is easily traced back to slavery. And when you trace it up, you find that without the underpinning of Black slavery, Microsoft, Apple Computer, Google, Yahoo, facebook, my space & etc.</span></em> would not have been possible.</p><p><strong>SO WHAT IS BLACK BUSINESS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF</strong></p><p><strong>WHITE BUSINESS AS THEY TRY TO SURVIVE</strong></p><p><strong> THE GROSS MIS-MANAGEMENT?</strong></p><p> If the reader is following this brief examination of the White Supremacist dilemma; as they try to survive the Gross mis-management of the wealth of the country, you’ll see that eventually their Black people as stock went into a steady decline, in their marketplace.</p><p> But since this particular “stock” is both <strong>original, human, resilient, brilliant, dedicated, resourceful, determined and spiritual at its base</strong>, it could not be done away with. So we as “stock” never declined in the “conscious” Black Community.</p><p>The value of Black people ONLY DECLINED in the minds of the ignorant or traitors amongst The National Black Community. Within this fact is found a <span style="color:#ff0000;">bright light,</span> giving a job description of “Black Business” in the White Supremacist based U. S. Market.</p><p>The job description is, Educate the ignorant (especially babies and black youth), kill the traitor. And after they are educated, lead them to productivity that is in their own best interest: not the best interest of white people, though sometimes our best interest do coincide.</p><p><strong>BLOWN CHANCE BY WHITE PEOPLE</strong></p><p><strong>TO TAKE CARE OF WHITE BUSINESS “ OPTING US IN”</strong></p><p><strong> WHEN THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN US THE CHOICE TO “OPT OUT”</strong></p><p> Rather than making it possible for Black people to “opt out” when they had a chance, white rulers forced us to opt in.” This was done by passing the 13, 14th and fifteenth amendment to the U. S. constitution; this was in the 1860’s.</p><p>Furthermore, they knew if “opting us in” had a chance to work, consideration was given to the only way this could happen: <span style="color:#ff0000;">the payment of REPARATIONS</span>. The remedy was “40 acres and a mule.” This was a proposal to pay for stolen Black wealth without paying money. However, it would have started the healing process.</p><p>But it didn’t happen because enough White people didn’t see this as in their own best interest, in the “White Business Sector.” They still don’t. Time and Black people handling our own, “Black Business Sector,” will tell.</p><p>JOBS IN THE BLACK BUSINESS ECONOMY</p><p> WITHIN THE WHITE MIS-MANAGED U.S. ECONOMY</p><p>The above <span style="color:#ff0000;">identifies</span> one other job description for “Black Business” in the U. S. economy. The Great Issue of Reparations is the remedy for the criminal (U.S.A.) and it is the remedy for the Victim (Black people). The only way that the criminal will pay reparations, without being forced to, is if he realize the ill of his ways and fear the consequences if he doesn’t do something to heal the injury that was caused when he and she committed the crime.</p><p>This is basically where the Reparations Stagnates today: appealing to white sense of morality is not working very well: the search is on to find, or apply the remedy that our Ancestors convinced some of us is necessary. But working as we do, would be a credible remedy IF we could appeal to his morality or conscious.</p><p>Or if he’d abide the three books: 1) the Bible 2) the Holy Qur’an 3) the United States/United Nations rules of law. If appealing to the criminal does not work, herein lies <span style="color:#ff0000;">another job description</span> in Black Business in the White Supremacist based, U. S., Barack Obama economy.</p><p>Black people ourselves must do the job of, first educating our people (should be included in the above). Then we must work to put White people in a position where they fear not paying us Reparations. N’COBRA and the Self-Determination of Robert Brock, Queen Mother Moore, Imari A. Obadele, etc. have taken care of the first part. The second part is where the critical part of the Reparations Demand is today: What work must we do to cause the White people to give into our demand?</p><p> Whether the workers in the White Business sector allow Barack Obama to apply his solution for their “white business” is important. But it is not the most important aspect about the Bad U. S. economy from the Black perspective.</p><p>The most important thing for us is to work to amass power to back up our demand for Reparations. Our Ancestors have left many instructions on the proper kinds of work to get the job done.</p><p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">One</span></strong> is to never give in and never give up; <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">two</span></strong> is to enjoy the process of working in Black Business; <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">three</span></strong> don’t expect anyone to do Black Business work EXCEPT committed Black people who are grounded in the principle Self-Determination.</p><p>We are not monolithic so don't expect he or she to be looking like a Black Muslim, Black Christian, Black Jew, Black Kemitian: just examine the work to determine who, or what people benefit the most for their labor - <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">AWAY FROM THE WHITE ENVIRONS WHERE THEY MAY BE EARNING SOME MONEY</span></strong>. How and what do they spend it?</p><p><strong>H. Khalif Khalifah served in various capacities for N’COBRA during the build up and educating of Black people, during the 1990’s. He is the author of 15 (fifteen) books, Founder of The Nat Turner Library, The Khalifah Kujichagulia Village (<a href="http://www.livinginblack.com">www.livinginblack.com</a>), Senior Tour Guide for the Nat Turner Trail, and Senior Partner in the recently opened Books & Things Plus Complex in Newport News, Virginia. He can be contacted vial khalifah23844@yahoo.com or <a href="http://www.natturnertrail.com">www.natturnertrail.com</a></strong></p><p></p><div style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;right:auto;text-decoration:none;"><strong><span class="Apple" style="text-transform:none;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font:16px 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;white-space:normal;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000000;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;right:auto;text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></strong></div><p></p><div style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;right:auto;text-decoration:none;">REPARATIONS CONVERSATION, Saturday morning at 11 am <a target="_blank" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nat-turner-library/2011/09/10/reparations-conversations-a-forum-for-pro-statements" title="This external link will open in a new window" style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;text-decoration:none;">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nat-turner-library/2011/09/10/reparations-conversations-a-forum-for-pro-statements</a></div><p></p><div style="font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;right:auto;text-decoration:none;"> </div><p></p></div>AfriCanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/african-12010-09-30T04:06:49.000Z2010-09-30T04:06:49.000ZRaynard Jacksonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RaynardJackson<div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">September 30, 2010</font></font></font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Raynard Jackson</font></font></font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">During the past two weeks I have been asked to be involved in two projects relating to Africa. While dealing with Africa can sometimes be very frustrating, after the past two weeks, I am very high on the future of Africa.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#000000;">Last month I was asked to help put together the first ever Seychelles Investment Forum in New York. The event was held last week and was a great success. The Seychelles is off the east coast of Africa, surrounded by the Indian Ocean</span> <span style="color:#FF0000;">(<a href="http://www.seychellesembassy.com/">www.seychellesembassy.com</a></span><span style="color:#000000;">).</span></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#000000;">After the Seychelles event, I then had the opportunity to participate on a panel during the African Policy Forum, hosted by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation in Atlanta, GA (</span><span style="color:#FF0000;"><a href="http://www.thesullivanfoundation.org/"><font color="#800080">www.thesullivanfoundation.org</font></a></span><span style="color:#000000;">).</span></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I have been flying back and forth to the continent for many years, but this immersion in all things Africa has restored my optimism in the future of the continent.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The Seychelles event was an opportunity for American businessmen and media professionals to become acquainted with investment possibilities and to learn more about this quiet, tropical paradise.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The delegation was led by the vice president of the Seychelles, the Honorable Danny Faure. He is simultaneously serving as the minister of finance. Relatively young, he has lots of experience within government. He is extremely personable and has the charm of Bill Clinton. I see him being a “fix-it” man throughout the continent in the future. Remember his name. You will hear it many times in the future.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Other members of the delegation included ministers Peter Sinon (Investments, Natural Resources and Industry), Jean-Paul Adam (Foreign Affairs), and their permanent representative to the United Nations & ambassador to the U.S., the honorable Ronny Jumeau.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Mr. Sinon is a former executive director for the African Development Bank. He is a great strategic thinker and has an enviable rolodex of friends that spans the globe. I hope his president, James Michel, takes full advantage of Mr. Sinon’s great mind and rolodex. I am a political animal at heart, thus had a great time talking global politics with Mr. Adam. He reminds me greatly of our former secretary of state, James A. Baker. He has worked within various levels of the government and is a close personal advisor to the president. Mr. Jumeau is the well seasoned statesman that is very comfortable with change and has the uncanny ability to bridge the gap between the old and the young. He definitely has the skill set to be a great diplomat.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Gregory Simpkins (vice president of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation and one of the foremost experts on Africa in the entire U.S.) asked me to participate on a panel called “The Media’s Africa May Not Be Your Africa: Exploring Fact and Fiction.” This was part of the Sullivan Foundation’s Africa Policy Forum in Atlanta, GA.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#000000;">The goal of the foundation is to “</span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000">bring the corporate and governmental communities together for the economic benefit of all, and invite businesses and individuals to create partnerships with Africa with our ultimate goal being a peaceful, prosperous, and powerful Africa.”</font></span></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The foundation is led by Ms. Hope Sullivan Masters (daughter of the great Leon Sullivan). She has taken the organization from a dream to reality. She put together one of the most substantive programs on Africa I have ever been a part of.</font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">As I indicated on the panel, African leaders should not expect the American media to accurately portray the totality of all the continent has to offer. Typically the media only show stories that deal with famine, war, or poverty. They never show the great education system of Botswana, the middle class wealth of Nigeria, or the modernity of Ethiopia.</font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">But, I also faulted African heads of state for not building relations with Black media in the U.S. How many African leaders have ever been interviewed by Black newspaper owners, magazines, or blogs? </font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">To my amazement, even former U.N. ambassador Andy Young and former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo agreed with my assessment. </font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">President Obasanjo, now an elder statesman, is a travelling trouble shooter throughout the continent. He is called on by world bodies to mediate various conflicts on behalf of the U.N., the African Union, etc. </font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I had the opportunity to spend some private time with him in his suite this past weekend. He is a remarkable, walking history of Africa. I hope my good friend Isaiah Washington (former star of Grey’s Anatomy) will one day do a film on the life of president Obasanjo. </font></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#000000;">I have known Isaiah a few years now and can visibly see the transformation that he has undergone since he began his travels back and forth to the continent. He served as honorary chairman of the African Policy Forum. You can see and feel the spirit of our ancestors speaking through him when he talks about Africa. One of my favorite scriptures from the Bible came to mind when I was listening to him. Ironically enough, it is Isaiah 61:1-2: <b><i>“</i></b></span><b><i><span style="color:#001320;">The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our Got; to comfort all that mourn.”</span></i></b></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Expect Isaiah to be one of the leading voices on Africa during the next generation.</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">With young leaders being groomed for the future in the Seychelles; with elder statesmen like President Obasanjo imparting his wisdom to the next generation; and voices like Isaiah Washington conjuring up spirits from our ancestors, you should understand why it is up to all of us to put the can in AfriCan!</font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><i><span style="font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';color:#0000FF;font-size:10pt;">Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;">www.excellstyle.com</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';color:#0000FF;font-size:10pt;">) & U.S. Africa Magazine (<a href="http://www.usafricaonline.com">www.usafricaonline.com</a>). </span></i></div>ABOUT THE PHYSICAL RESISTANCE OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/about-the-physical-resistance2010-09-14T00:56:19.000Z2010-09-14T00:56:19.000ZH. Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><div><strong><em>Once again we owe a show of graditude to Sons of Africa for the information about The Stono Rebellion. Information about Sons of Africa can be obtained at</em></strong> <a href="mailto:KAfrica33@aol.com"><strong><em>KAfrica33@aol.com</em></strong></a> <strong><em>An excerpt from one of their postings about The Stono Rebellion that prompted the following blog by</em></strong></div><div><strong>H. Khalif Khalifah</strong></div><div>It was information about The Stono Rebellion, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey & Nat Turner that helped to uncover my Purpose in Life. The information about Stono, Prosser and Denmark (to a lesser extent, since i got my hands on a transcript of the trial of the Black captives who were tried for the Rebellion). But when i got to Nat Turner, Prof John Henrik Clarke had reprinted a copy of "The Confessions of Nat Turner" in his book; "William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond." Later, after about 1969, i committed myself to the preservation and propagation of the true accounts about Nat Turner. It is now 2010 and i presently own a 123 acre tract of land that is part of the Plantation land where Nat Turner was born, worked, preached, planned and executed the largest Revolt against The USA in history. <a href="http://www.natturnertrail.com/">www.natturnertrail.com</a></div><div>To preserve this precious history i have conducted tours of The Nat Turner Trail for an estimated 2500 African Americans and two cacasians over the past 20 years. The tours are "staged" from a structure on the land that i have instituted as The Nat Turner Reference Library. The Nat Turner Trail is a revisit to the "battle sites" where the army was victorious in 16 consecutive victories as they fought over a two day period to reach Jerusalem..........so yes, the complete history about our gallantry in physical fights to liberate the race from chattel slavery, second-class citizenship and other forms of oppression has been a continuous one. The latest best documentation about the physical fight of a Black Liberation was led by Sister Assata Shakur (presently exiled in Cuba), who led an underground movement to avoid the fate of The Black Party members who were slaughtered in the late 1960's and early 1970's.....There has never been a through/conprehensive recordation about the Black Liberation Army of the 1970's in a book, but the various parts are scattered and available for the historian with the resources, courage, will and determination to research and write that book..........i have been involved in the publication of some 600 different titles over the course of my work in "The Struggle." I would love to have some involvement in the documenation of the history about The BLA OF THE 1970S IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: if anyone has such a manuscript, or one in progress, or just have some documentation that will be helpful for a future researcher of our history from, say 1960, please contact me (434) 378-2140.................................Khalifah</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">________________________________________________________________________________</font></font></div><p><font color="#000000">----------------<br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT OR FROM KHALIFAH ESTATES -</strong></span><br /></font><font color="#60BF00">OCTOER IS <font color="#FF0000">PTslaveryD</font> Awarness month. 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Khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HKhalifKhalifah<div><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="style151"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">REPARATIONS DEMAND UPGRADE ATTEMPT</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">VETERAN ACTIVISTS STRUGGLING TO FIND CONSENSUS</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="style151"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">[circulate freely but All Rights Reserved]</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="style151"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">By H. Khalif Khalifah</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">JULY 27, 2010</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA – Three well known Black Community Organizers in the Northeast are dialoguing to find consensus to recharge the dormant Reparations Movement. It began as a simple conversation on a open internet forum, but may evolved into an important, serious discussion to find consensus to upgrade our Demand for Reparations from the United States of America.</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">The dialogue comes in the light of recognizing the opportunity to acquire power in the presently catastrophically, issues prone Criminal nation. But the devastation that was visited on the Captive African population has been so severe, survival requirement hamper the effort to “seize” the time; and properly use the acquired power.</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">The USA is documented to have participated in what is generally thought to be the greatest “Crime Against Humanity” in the annuals of History: The continuing Chattel Enslavement, Second-Class Citizenship and other forms of oppression over four centuries, in the “Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.” Yet, the verve of the Black Race is such that even in the face of an open enemy, with a document record of unreserved brutality, the Community Organizers still “dare to struggle and dare” to demand Reparations.”</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria"><b>Led by a Sam Anderson, who was one of the young student organizers in the 1970’s that made a mighty contribution to the fall of the South African apartheid regime, presently with the Reparations Mobilization Coalition. Ari Merretazon is Northeast Regional Chairman of N’COBRA. and the erstwhile Attorney, Ajamu, a former BOD member of N’COBRA and Leader of N’COBRA’s legal Strategies Commission.</b></font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria">MIS-CHARACTERIZATION BEGAN CONVERSATION</font></font></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="style151"><span><font color="#FF0000"><font face="Cambria"><i>“</i></font></font></span></span><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">Brother Ari, You and I are old enough to have been part of the Civil Rights movement. In retrospect, many folks will tend to selectively emphasize what they are most comfortable with emphasizing. We must be rigorously honest when we look at that whole period, especially if we want to extract valuable lessons.”</span></i> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">Replied Ajamu.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">Ajamu was responding to a loose characterization of the body politic of Leaders of the Black Golden Generation, of the 1960’s. Brother Ari summed up the entire decade as having used Race identity for self empowerment. This is not correct: Black people, whose work shook the foundations of America, were men and women who “seized the opportunity’ to acquire power in a multitude of ways; they did have One Common Objective. That is to Free Black people from all vestiges of the aftermath of the various forms of oppression we have survived for 400 years. Our Proper use of power in the 1960’s is essentially what created the opportune period in this day and time.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">The opportunity to “seize power” is available to all with a certain UNDERSTANDING of the KNOWLEDGE: The WISDOM derived from the understanding is being used effectively to achieve specified goals. How this is forged into a vanguard movement to match the dictates of the time is the challenge to the Leadership today. There are any number of examples of Black men and women who are tapping into the power made possible by the Golden Generation. All are using it for individual enhancement, or to advance within “the system.” While this is effectively using power it is not the Best Use of Power.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">DR. KING CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">So while it is correct to call Dr. King the leader of the Civil Rights Revolution, it is incorrect to say that we were all struggling to support his main thrust; that was to integrate with white people as the way to achieve freedom, justice and equality. While Dr. King did not practice Race Identity politics, many of us certainly did. The best known of these were Minister Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Carlos Cooks, Kwame Ture, H. Rap Brown, Imari A. Obadele, Robert Williams & etc.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">All the above named, regardless to their methodology, shared the common goal of desiring Liberation for Black people. They also shared one other major reason they were successful in moving the mass of our people to support their programs.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">They understood the time was ripe to reap some real power. It is too complex to detail any of the reasons why the opportunity was prevalent to build real power during the 1960’s. Nor will I use this space to detail any of the reasons and ways they Properly used the power they acquired. <b><i>What we do want to say in no uncertain way is that we are presently living in a similarly opportune time to amass and utilize power to serve the liberation necessities of Black people. We also assert that, contrary to much prevailing thought, it is not necessary to forsake time honored, staunch position, in Race Identity to properly use the power (as many appear to insinuate)</i></b></span></p><div style="border-bottom:1pt solid;border-left:medium none;padding-bottom:1pt;padding-left:0in;padding-right:0in;border-top:medium none;border-right:medium none;padding-top:0in;"><p style="border-bottom:medium none;text-align:justify;border-left:medium none;padding-bottom:0in;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;padding-left:0in;padding-right:0in;border-top:medium none;border-right:medium none;padding-top:0in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">As near as I can tell, Ajamu, Ari and Sam Anderston are embarking on, at the least, ONE OF THE MEANS that the Leaders of the 1960’s employed: Whatever was their chosen method to serve the overall objective, enough of the leadership wisely found ways for a strategic working together (on some projects). They knew that United Power is the strongest power.</span></p></div><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman Baltic', serif;color:#000000;">H. Khalif Khalifah is the author of “A Brief History of N’COBRA and the Reparations Movement.”</span></p></div>