DR. IMARI ABUBAKARI OBADELE: Founder of N'COBRA & REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA

WHERE IS DR. IMARI ABUBAKARI OBADELE Is Legendary a Founder of RNA & N’COBRA M.I.A. By H. Khalif Khalifah MARCH 17, 2009 SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA – M. I. A. may be a charitable expression: it means ‘missing in action.” Dr. Imari A. Obadele, one of the Founders of The Republic of New Afrika, as well as N’COBRA (the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America), have not been heard from since the N’COBRA Reparations Convention in 2007. Reportedly, he participated in the annual Membership meeting of the Coalition, in June, that he called into being – in 1987. But even at that meeting he was “clearly not the Dr. Obadele of old, or during the entire convention.” Stated a participant who was at the meeting. The above was a public gathering of the Coalition to plan and develop strategies, while listening to new ideals, to advance the cause of Black people to be paid due Reparations for “past slavery rendered,” as well as the devastation that the entire sojourn has heaped on the good and welfare of Black people – down to this present day! OBADELE ALWAYS MORE COGENT AND PRECISE Even in his Eldership, the mind of Dr. Obadele was clearly the most cogent and precise in analyzing the Demand, as well as stratagems that effectively made the word Reparations a household word worldwide. Most all of the work that made it possible grew out of a brain storm, or ideal of Dr. Obadele. “I wanted the leave to be right. It would be, I though, if I never forget the brothers. If I work ceaselessly to free our prisoners-of-war and help win that freedom, “ Dr. Obadele states in a book that is essentially, his auto – biography, “FREE THE LAND.” The quote is a reprint of same that is in Khalifah’s book, ‘A Brief History of N’COBRA and the Reparations Movement.’ “…if I never forsake our cause and help free the land.” He continued [go to www.reparaionswarchest.com to complete the reading of this article]. Or send Reparations Warchest for this and other pertinent information $5.00 to P.O Box 9 – Drewryville, VA 23844] (continued from list serv) “If I never forsake our cause and help free the land.” Dr. Obadele Continued. The quote was taken directly from the book “Free The Land, by Imari Abubakari Obadele. FOUNDING OF N’COBRA FROM THAT MINDSET The founding of N’COBRA was called from the above mindset and commitment. Those who have ever been in the presence of Dr. Obadele, or read and understood any of his some 25 or 30 books, know that a commitment from this Great Man, who has been called one of “the 5 greatest Black minds of the 20th century,” when a commitment was made to do something, he was never stopped. He got the job done, one way or the other. It is well known that I am an unabashedly admiral and student of the ways and means Dr. Obadele deployed his words acts and deeds to achieve a desired result. It goes something like what my father told me: “there is a way to achieve anything that is Right. If you can’t achieve it one way, you go another way.” But you never give up. It especially played out in my chosen field of work as writer/publisher/printer and, also would-be-liberator of Afrikan people. When I propose to do something that is beneficial to Black people, if I get a little help, then it will take longer to get the job done and it may be done of a smaller scale. With lots of help it will be done sooner and in greater abundance and on a larger scale. THE FOUNDING OF N’COBRA THE DEPOLYMENT OF THE WORD REPARATION Dr. Obadele is credited with calling the folk into formation that formed N’COBRA. But he was never one of the leaders of the Coalition. If he had ever led N’COBRA, as it was organized doing its glory days in the 1990’s, Black people may have already obtained, at the least a “down payment on the Reparations due,” which was one of this storied strategies. Another was “Reparations Awareness Day” [February 25] and the “Economic Development Commission.” And many, many more of the best known ways that Reparations came to be known so well, by so many people. For those who would doubt the assertion that Black people may have already been paid, and the “healing process begun,” need only look at what Dr Obadele achieved as a multi term President of the Republic of New Afrika. Even in the face of the frontal attack on the RNA headquarter in 1971, harassment of all descriptions by U.S. police agencies, confinement to Philadelphia after serving 5 years in prison for the battle – though he was not present at the battle in 1971 – he still managed the committed active, and inactive membership of RNA to get some profound results. Reportedly, it was also Dr. Obadele that called The BLA [Black Liberation Army] into formation. It was led by Freed, exiled Assata Shakur. A LIST OF HIS BOOK WILL BE ON THIS NETWORK We could go on for several hundred pages about Dr. Obadele, but we will hold our pen here after a listing of several of the books that was written by Dr. Obadele: WAR IN AMERICA; FOUNDATION FOR A BLACK NATION, FREE THE LAND, REPARATIONS, YES (a rare book being auctioned on this site); A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLACK STRUGGLE IN AMERICA [another rare book being auctioned to build the structure to build the Reparations Warchest]. This is only a few of his books. If the reader has others, please let us know. I intend to continue to report on the work of Dr. Obadele. In fact, one of the main reasons for the REPARATIONS WARCHEST is to secure funds that will be used to help committed Black individuals and organization for the Noble Cause to Free Black People. Dr. Imari Abubakari Obadele is a Past Master in our present day. LET US KNOW YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU READ. BUT THERE WILL BE NO DEBATES – THERE ARE SEVERAL MILLION FORUMS TO DEBATE ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE. THE BUILDING OF A REPARATIONS WAR CHEST IS NOT ONE OF THOSE.