Posted on 05/05/2005 10:16:05 AM PDT by meandog
THE NATIONAL BLACK REPARATIONS ALLIANCE PRESENTS A SERIES OF LECTURES ON REPARATIONS FOR BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA
2005 Reparations Lecture # 1 – , Charlotte, N. C.
In The Name of Allah
The Beneficial, The Most Merciful
We thank Allah for blessing us to be within
Thy Grace, at this time, in this place, in our present states of Mind
Good Evening Brothers & Sisters,
As Salaam Alaikum!
It is a pleasure to have you with us this evening. We are in the house of Conquering Books & the Raw Talent Community Art Gallery . These Reparations Meetings are sponsored by the National Black Reparations Alliance. First let me say, we will not speak for the Million Man March. And we will not speak for N’COBRA. However, we will speak about these two great institutions.
Tonight is the beginning of the first of a Five Part Series on Reparations for Black people in the United States of America . We hope to clarify any questions that you may have in your mind about the Great Issue of Reparations. We have proposed to begin by addressing, “Why Reparations, who will be paid and when.”
We know these are the right questions to address at the outset. And we also know what our ancestors told us about Black people and our history. We were advised, that when we discuss our history, we begin, NOT in America , but on the Afrikan continent. This is for the best of reasons. Since we were robbed and cut off from everything that was within their authority, our history was also a casualty of this assault: so many of our people, unless we correct them at each opportunity, they will think that our history began on the shores of North America .
Thanks to our great ancestors, much of our stolen history is no longer lost, but is indeed, found. It is in books that are written by, for or about Black people: All you need do is find a good history book and read about our glorious history. And what it was like for us before we were defeated, captured and transported this far from our homeland. You will find the recovering of our history a very interesting endeavor because, when you study your own history, you actually study your own self. And when you study your own self, you uncover who you are and why you are where you are at any given time in space. We say FIND and RECOVER our history because as we all know, they covered it up so well, they thought we’d never find it. And even as we find it, many of them are still holding on…REFUSING to even admit that they stole it…It is critical that we both find and recover the true knowledge of ourselves.
This is important, but it still is not as important as one other thing that you will also discover, when you gain true knowledge of self.
When you get true knowledge of self, you find out the true source of your Creator and… the true knowledge of His and your enemy, the devil. And when you find our the source of your origin – your Creator, you will find that the One who created you did not do it just to prove he was powerful enough to create a couple of trillion unique human beings…. He created every human being for a divine purpose; A good purpose. How do you expect to be happy, or find The Peace if you don’t find out what your purpose in life is… Once you find your purpose, a great mystery about life unfolds and you’ll find, we say, one-half of what makes you happy and successful in life. You will also understand what you must do to avoid sadness and failure.
NOW, LET ME SEE IF I CAN WRAP THIS UP….first let me ask if anyone have any questions about what I just said?....
Why do we struggle for Reparations? Because the same man who stole your history, also stole everything else about you. And not just you, he stole your possessions. He stole your race. When a people steal from your race, or nation, the laws of the United Nations, says this is a Crime Against Humanity that must be compensated for..If you never get back what he stole, you will never be free. And he will never be free. He will never be free of the crime that he committed. And you’ll never be free because you need the things that he stole from you to heal yourself.
Yes, we say “heal yourself.” You may not feel sick. But trust me, if you are Black, you are sick. Maybe not physically, but you are sick mentally and this can be proven. The definition of reparations is “The payment for a debt owned. The payment to a nation of people who have been victimized in the commission of a crime. Every time that a crime is committed, somebody is injured. Hurt. Reparations is the term used for the compensation that you must obtain from the criminal if he stole from a nation. If the crime is against an individual or a class of individuals it is called compensation. If the victim is not compensated for the crime, then the criminal gets away with it. But this is Not reparations….there is a lot of confusion about these to forms of payment for abuse…but simply, reparations is when the government is involved in the crime. When the government pass laws that are criminal. Or enforce criminal acts, they can be held accountable for such and must pay reparations. When an institution within the government commits a crime against an individual or class of individuals, the victim of their criminality can hold them accountable for breaking the laws of the government to victimize you. Justice requires that they COMPENSATE you for such behavior.
THE OTHER QUESTION…
Who Will Be Paid? This was the question that I asked one of the masters of the Great Issue at the first Reparations convention I attended. Mr. Robert Brock is his name. And his organization is called The Self Determination Committee. At this convention, he’d given a masterful presentation about Reparations. He described, and defined Reparations so thoroughly that anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence could understand what Reparations is. And he took pains to explain that the Great Issue of Reparations is NOT a civil right. But is a Human Right. And that when you strive for your Civil Rights you are depending on the CIVILITY of a barbarian to do the right thing for you. But when you are after Reparations, You are demanding that he give you back what he stole from you. When you make a demand on someone, you are not depending on him to act civilized. You are depending on your own resources. You are depending on your ability to appeal to common sense of the oppressor to give in to your demand. In what we have been doing in the Reparations Movement is the traditional things; the time honored things that an oppressed people have always done. These things are done to BACK UP the demand for Reparations. In the United States of America , all you have to do is insist that they obey the law…it is on his law books too. But he continues to deny the Black man justice. He has paid every nationality that he victimized, BUT US.
So When Will we be paid our Reparations? This is the question that everyone who has ever been broke wants to know. When will I get paid. We will not be paid Reparations until we can build enough unity to back up our demand for Reparations.
When will we be paid is one of those questions we have always been careful about. The we I am referring to is N’COBRA. N’COBRA is not a presumptious Coalition. When you are presumptious, you presume that what you say is going to happen. Or that the next person is going to agree with what you state to be true. We at N’COBRA have never made that mistake. And NBRA is not going to make it either. So I will give a general answer. We will get paid when we cause the people who owe us reparations fear NOT paying us, MORE than to continue to stonewall and pretend that the Issue doen’t count. It counts. And today, more than ever Black people know how to count. We know the laws that he passed to pay other people. But when it comes to us he refuses to obey his own laws. But we have a long history of struggle in this country to get the government to obey the law. We’ll not give up. For we know that when our people really get behind this issue, we’ll get our reparations.
In closing, let me say: Reparations is the payment by a criminal to heal the injury that he caused in the commission of his crime. We have always known that a crime was committed against us; we have known that an injury was caused in the commission of the crime; and we have always known the identity of the criminal who committed the crime. . .The only thing left for us to do now is to find a way to hold him accountable. And that is why we are here tonight. Looking for ways to cause our people to do the things we must to hold our enemy accountable – this will back up our demand for reparations.
KHALIFAH is a former, six term member of the National Board of Directors of N’COBRA, and Co-Chair of the Human Resources Commission. And was N’COBRA’s Liaison to the Million Man March in 1995. He recently formed the National Black Reparations Alliance, an independent formation that is a member of N’COBRA. As is Khalifah khalifah2@khabooks.com
Contact: H. Khalif Khalifah (704) 509-2226
I can answer the questions - No one and NEVER. Thank you.
They've GOT to be kidding.
"They've GOT to be kidding."
Especially since muslims were the main slave traders.
Muslim North Africans would raid other groups, round them up, and sell them.
Still goes on to this day, actually.
Do you have a direct link for this?
thanks
"Reparations is the payment by a criminal to heal the injury that he caused in the commission of his crime. We have always known that a crime was committed against us; we have known that an injury was caused in the commission of the crime; and we have always known the identity of the criminal who committed the crime."
Exactly what crime was committed against Mr. Khalifeh and his brain dead associates?
Paid in full and still paying.
bc ping
They who? What do you mean by this?
someone should point out that the IRS has a special form to fill out for the reparations check. According to an attorney in Nigeria who I am in constant correspondence, these refunds may entitle tax payers of color from 50 cent to over $1 billion!!!
he read it and feels much better now
'Salaam Alaikum' really means 'salami' (on rye) hold the mayo!
Is this a Scrappleface posting??
40 years of the "Great Society" and its expensive and perverse progeny with no end in sight equals HOW MANY TRILLIONS???????
Reparations have been had, and so have the taxpayers!
I did not own slaves and none of these black people were ever slaves, move along now.
Shriners used to say something like that.
Like a lot of their previous toying around with that Islamic sh*t, I'm guessing these days they probably don't say it as much as they used to.
Reparations were 40 acres - a wagon and a mule.
Jesse can cough up the money for the wagon and the mule and the 40 acres are in Liberia.
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