About a year ago, one of my uncles wrote to me from Egypt, quite bitterly. He said:
People are so busy discussing and fighting over whether or not the ancient Egyptians were "black" ---that they forgot we're still here.
We still exist.
The Arabs who claim to be Egyptians have not exterminated ALL of us yet.
Kola, you live in America, you're somebody over there. Why don't you say something?
You're only claiming SUDAN. But that's not right.
Your father was an Egyptian.
And he's right. Because of my own bitterness...my hatred and loathing for my father's country...I have been remiss to mention anything about the country.
My only real memory is a very painful one...the memory of my White Arab grandmother going to the Mullahs after my birth parents had been executed in SUDAN for speaking out against slavery to get PERMISSION to put me up for adoption (as adoption is primarily illegal in EGYPT)...because of course, my black skin would have exposed her --Miss Najet Kolbookek---as having BLACK African blood in her family's veins. A fact that she, unlike my Uncle, has spent her whole life trying to hide from the Arab Muslim social set.
BUT my uncle is right. The true Egyptians--the Black Egyptians do still exist, and instead of debating about the "ancient" people....why do we never force the WHITE MEDIA to show images of the black ones?
Why is it that in America--only the WHITE ARAB INVADER groups, the BEJA and the Noor are ever shown on television or in magazines?
Why do they insist on painting EGYPT as a WHITE nation with no connection to Africa?
Clearly..these photos of EGYPTIAN Black people---photos that are NOW TODAY---demonstrate that Egypt is not a White nation. There are millions of BLACK EGYPTIANS who still exist.
If I had not been put up for adoption by my colorstruck Egyptian grandmother ---I would never have been adopted by the most wonderful people in the world---my Black American family...the JOHNSONS of Washington D.C.
And I would be somewhere on the Nile River, and like all other BLACK people of Egyptian blood...I would be INVISIBLE.
But because I am a BLACK WOMAN who is now an American citizen....I am able to bring some clarity through my work and activism....and this has been extremely painful
....because as my good friend, Derrick Bell pointed out to me ---AMERICA doesn't want any image that is black to represent the Nile River Valley....and Derrick told me that this is one of the reasons that AMERICAN media has been so hostile towards me--because I am too black and my hair is NAPPY as the Black Americans say. I am not the right "image"
....and just like they WHITENED the recent exhibition of KING TUT when it toured California (and for those of us who are North African, we know full well that the CHARCOAL Nubian Queen Tiye was TUT's mother
and just like they fought against the Scientists who reconstructed the face of NEFERTITI only to discover that she was a dark brown black woman....
The Americans are very racist against the idea of EGYPT being represented by those of us who are BLACK.
For those Egyptians reading this post, I, Kola Boof, can promise you that I have been treated like trash by the American media---and because of the controversies surrounding my life, they even tried to pretend that I do not exist. That I was made up and not a real person. And they have slandered my name with every chance they could slander it.
I tell you all....as AFRICANS...that we must begin to recognize that there is a hideous racism in these WHITE American people--far worse than the African immigrants have wanted to believe. They are not honest people....and as they have falsely branded me a LIAR...I know their real face now.
ANWAR SADAT:
Like me, our late Black Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was half Sudanese, half Egyptian.
Unlike me, Anwar Sadat did everything he could to distance himself from the title of "black man".
He insisted that he was NOT BLACK---that he was an Arab.
His Sudanese mother was never seen and in every political decision, every legal law ---he was the HARDEST on the blacks. He married a White Arab woman. He despised his African heritage and was basically put in office by the SAUDI ARABIANS and the Arab League....because they wanted to entice the Black Americans after the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement to support all things MUSLIM, all things ARAB ....and especially to support PALESTINE.
Many of you in Egypt and in London write to me---imploring me to speak up for the Black Egyptians.
You do not realize that I am not popular with Black Americans in the way that Anwar Sadat was popular. I am a WOMAN and I am compelled to fight for women's rights...as well as Black people's rights. I am also the wrong "image" to represent Egypt--I am Black with African hair.
I have also had a very unusual life and have been sinful....I am portrayed here as a "crazy woman" and my intelligence is not respected.
When I try to speak with Black Americans about our lives as Black people on the Nile River ....they are arrogant with their own notions, many of which come from Islamic leaders like Louis Farrkhan.
The Black Americans run around saying, "HOTEP".
Can you believe that? We never speak this way, but they want the fantasy grandeur of ancient Kings and Queens and they crave the past. Many of them "talk, talk, talk" about Africa and being BLACK....but their wives and children are white. It's all a farce, because they don't know who they are.
When I try to explain to them that as a "BLACK" North African woman...I cannot support PALESTINE, even though I am well aware that ISRAEL has done horrendous things to the Palestinians....they simply cannot comprehend it.
Even after I told them about the Sudanese slave women in Palestine and the "sterilizing" of Black women by Palestinians, because the Palestinians are so colorstruck---they still bedamned me for getting weapons to defend myself from ISRAEL and not supporting Palestine.
But my brothers and sisters...I am STILL Naima Bint Harith.
Although the Sahara desert sun no longer blackens me, I am still dark and beautiful.
I am here. And although there has been great bitterness against EGYPT on my part, I have not forgotten your beauty or your worth, nor have I forgotten our solidarity as BLACK people. And I promise you...that in my Autobiography, I have done all that I can to tell our experience, our truth...and to make us less invisble.
Long live the BLACK Egyptians!!!!!
tima usrah (through fire comes the family)
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I am an African woman, technically bi-racial, who was adopted and raised in Washington, D.C. by a Black American family. As an adult, searching for myself, I returned to North Africa for several years, got into loads of trouble as an uneducated low rent film actress...but returned to the land of my citizenship (America) with a new outlook as a womanist, a freedom fighter for Sudan’s SPLA, and most notably, as a novelist and poet.
PROOF, of course...is the term that many Africans use to describe the “one true hair” that is the unique Crown of the black man and the black woman. Black Americans (who, to me, are Africans) refer to it as “Nappy Hair”.
And as the Cushitic-Hebrew folktale goes...”God put “the Proof” on the black man’s head as a marker that he is God’s son, the first man made in the image of God, and that the only way to defeat, conquer and destroy the black man...is to remove the Crown (the Proof) from his head. I was taught as a little girl in Sudan that no other race of humans were given this hair but Blacks; and that anytime you find our hair growing from the scalps of non-blacks, it is because those people have some African blood and are a bastardized extraction of us...we being the first race; the blacks, the Africans.
Taghut (Satan), I was taught, is in a never-ending quest to destroy and conquer Africa by killing the black man...which can only truly be done by removing “the Proof” from his head. For without it, the Cushitic-Hebrew folktale goes, he is not really a black man.
And it wasn’t until I finally analyzed the self-destruction and the erasure of blackness in Black Americans and in Black British, and the ways that their legendary self-hate is now imported to Africa itself, that I began to take this folktale from my childhood seriously.
Truly, in America, you begin to understand it.
As Alice Walker wrote...“It only takes one lie to unravel the whole world”. And in America, that lie manifests itself in the racist admonition that...”one drop” of African blood defiles everything else in a body’s universe and marks any and everyone possessing that “one drop” as a black person.
Tragically, Black Americans were forced through hundreds of years of conditioning to accept, believe and demand their slave master’s rule, to be ignorant of any African standards or rules, and as a result, they have been put on Automatic Self-Destruct by striving to produce children who look more like their slave master than like their ancestors, but at the same time, continuing to call themselves “black” by virtue of this insidious and ridiculous “one drop” bullshit.
PROOF Magazine....is but one of my rebukes, as an African woman, wombbearer and mother...against the racist American notion that Black people should think so little of themselves that just anybody can BE them.
And, naturally, this is an extremely painful position to take...because although I love all races of human beings, and although I have family members who are mixed, biracial and now even White...it is seen as “racist” to proclaim one’s blackness, to cherish it and to separate it from the ownership of those who are not black.
But still, if my people are to survive...and to survive as themselves, it’s a position that must be taken. And taken without apology or hesitation.
Many say that I, Kola Boof, am not “authentically” black, because I am the daughter of a white Arab Egyptian man. Of course, in Africa, because my skin is chocolate and I have “the Proof” of my ancestors growing from my scalp, I am considered a Black African woman, but to disgruntled Black Americans I say....fine. You can call me “inauthentic”, but I am still going to fight for the dignity and integrity of the Authentic Black people...and I will never promote the evil erasure of black people by claiming that Lenny Kravitz is a black man or that Vin Diesel is just as black as Denzel Washington or that Mariah Carey is black or that Halle Berry is just as black as Lauryn Hill. This is not only a lie to claim that Vin Diesel, Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey are black...but, historically, this has been a strategic tool in making authentic black people invisible and keeping them from having representation of their own group. By putting mixed and yellow people in their place, celebrating and elevating Mulatto images as “normal” and castigating Blackness as something to be “evolved” from..and in particular, this has been the way that the authentic Black woman’s image has been denigrated, disallowed and killed by her own black children in the west...by pretending that Lena Horne is the mother of the Black Americans, when the truth is...Esther Rolle and Cicely Tyson are what the mothers of the Black Ameicans actually looked like. The Black Americans being the children of the West and Central African Kingdoms.
If you watch this white supremacist minstrel network, BET (aka "the mulatto follies"), if you attend a dinner at the NAACP, if you carefully analyze the majority of women presenters at “The Soul Train Awards” (where child molesters are given Life Achievement Prizes..provided their victims are little black girls that no one protects or gives a **** about in our community, just like back in Africa), or if you watch the majority of films produced and directed by Black Filmmakers...you will notice that the WOMB of Black people...the authentic Black woman; authentic meaning the darkest, the one possessing the Crown (“the Proof”), the one with Nilotic, Ethnic or Negroid features..is almost always disallowed.
You find yourself looking at gorgeous African-looking men like Michael Jordan, Morris Chestnut, Kanye West, Djimon Hounsou...and you wonder...where in the hell did these beautiful authentic black men come from? Because, you see...the “mother image” that it took to create these chocolate royal looking men is never allowed to be shown...unless she’s presented as an old woman. But you will never see the 19 year old deep chocolate beauty that produced these men. It will not be celebrated.
America is a western society that completely fears, hates and seeks to erase black people and Africa. And I would say that most Black Americans (at least 70%)...also hate black people and Africa...but because they themselves are black, they don’t realize it.
They will curse the photos of a lynched black man hanging from a tree as white people sit around having a picnic...but they will not give birth to that black man again. Instead, they will marry the lynch rope and produce children who look more like the white lynchers at the picnic.
They will call out the words, “Mother Africa”...but the lowest, most despised, hated person in Black America is the authentic Black woman. And the reason is...her WOMB makes them black, therefore, she is the enemy. And they make all manner of excuse, create any and every bald-faced lie against her...their own mother...in order to place the White man’s mother above her...as a savior; as a bridge out of blackness.
Through the white man's mother, they lose the proof. They achieve the disconnection from black people's suffering...and BY DEFAULT...they join with White Supremacy, whether they be reddish-yellow, yellow, high yellow or vanilla-bean bi-racial...they become EXTRACTIONS of blackness that mainly reiterate "whiteness as normal--blackness is something you EVOLVE from" and bellie the slave master's contention that black people (Africans) are inferior and lightskinned people are an "improvement".
As so many white mothers of biracial babies candidly point out during afternoon talk shows--an improvement on the "dark nappy" babies--the authentic blacks.
So many Black Americans have forgotten that when they look upon African people or look upon the very darkest black woman...what they are seeing is the living REPLICA of their ancestors...what’s left of them...in their natural state. And yet, they don’t make the connection. Instead of cherishing and protecting the ethos of their ancestors, many of us...both African and Black removed from Africa...assist the slave master/colonizer in destroying, lying upon and degrading this image.
We claim that there's only one race...the human race....yet we hate the Blackness in human beings. We see blackness as a deformity...a curse that White women or White men can cure by breeding it out of us. We hate Africa itself.
And in the United States...we are encouraged to breed it out. Everytime we watch B.E.T (a true nigger and coon channel) or countless films that highlight the beauty of Lightness and disallow representations of darkness...unless those representations are male and paired up with light or white images...everytime we see Mary J. Blige transmitting to little black girls that she can't possibly be cute unless she's got platinum blond hair...everytime we see a famous, successful black man choose a White woman or a Latina Woman (which on television and in the media is MOST of the time)...everytime we see Michael Jackson's Casper-white complexion or hear phone messages played on the news of him saying, "I hate my nigger hair!"...everytime we step out of our front doors in America...we are given the message that blackness is inferior and sub-human and that the answer is to hate and ERASE it.
Worldwide NiggerStock
Black Americans don't like the word "nigger", but it's crucial that we understand what a nigger really is.
Whether he be in North Sudan, South Africa, Jamaica or the United States...a nigger's true goal is to erase himself and become the image of his master.
Skin bleaching in Africa...marrying the lightest person we can find in America...denying that the Black race even exists...that only HUMANS do, as if Hitler or the Slave Master or the African dictator or any other Power on this planet ever gave a damn about anybody else being human.
Seriously. A nigger's true goal is to erase himself and become the image of his master.
THE AUTHENTIC BLACK
People ask me who is "authentically black" and how can we possibly measure who is and who isn't...they point out that I myself, Kola Boof, would not pass the test.
But I don't care about failing the test. I already know that I am not authentically black, although thank God my Waaq-Oromo mother was so darkskinned (Charcoal in fact) that no one in America could tell just by looking at me that my father was not black.
Yet just because I'm Half Arab...doesn't mean that I don't know what a Real Black Person is. I do know and so do you. They're mostly Black. Not half Indian, a quarter Irish and three fourths Filipino.
Setting my Half Arab self aside, I just want to know that the BLACK people...my people....will continue to exist. Which is not racist, it's normal. And it doesn't stop me from loving my Sherwood Anderson books or my Julia Roberts movies. It doesn't stop me from eating at Chinese restaurants or having sex with a White man I'm attracted to. It just means that I belong somewhere and that I want that place to always be there....for me to return to.
Before I had children, I wanted my children to look like Denzel Washington and Lauryn Hill....and I did not want them to look like Alicia Keys and Tiger Woods.
It's not that I don't love all human beings...I do love all human beings. I have all of Alicia Keys and Mariah Carey's Cds, and I admire them because they're sweet, beautiful, compassionate kind women. But that doesn't mean ****. Because so are Lauryn Hill, India Arie and Alek Wek...and those women are my people. Any African who looks at them...immediately recognizes them. And when I see the California malls full of bi-racial black children, few of whom want anything to do with black people or Africa...what I see is that the Black Man in America gets lighter and lighter with each new generation....but the White Man stays White.
Black Americans are only 13% of the population in this country. They were very recently taken over by the Latinos as the nation's #1 minority group....mysteriously being allowed to come here by the MILLIONS in just 20 short years. And...if you put the Blacks and the Latinos together...then the White Americans still outnumber them both 2 to 1.
So, you see...I am right. The White Man is getting Whiter and Whiter and the Black Americans are being bred into Mulattos, yellower and yellower, which is how our empires in North Africa (where I come from) were destroyed. This is the same ancient extermination that wiped out the MOORS.....and truly, the MOORS were a "nigger race". They were total losers, otherwise, they would still exist. As the ancient Nubians used to say before killing off an enemy tribe--"Extinction is not honorable."
Don't get me wrong. It's natural to have some "yellow" in an African tribe. Here and there. But this disparity in America is the product of White Supremacy. It is unnatural and it is done to suppress and erase blackness.
So of course, we all know the difference between an Authentic Black...and a Mulatto, Biracial, Mixed person. They are very similar, but ultimately, they are not the same....they are not treated the same, their experiences are not the same, they can no longer see beauty the same or love Africa the same.
If they were the same, then the High Yellows wouldn't be in denial about Colorism...while the dark blacks insist that it's the very marrow of their existence (Have you noticed this recently?).
And it's not the "ISSUE"...or my bringing up the issue that divides us....but it's the stark difference in color itself and the loss of hair texture and the loss of African looks that divides us.
The difference in how we are treated that divides us.
And though we have been littered with Mixed race People in Africa (most of whom are in the North and do not consider themselves African or black, unless it's to get AID or they're visiting America).....and though a thousand years of "explorers" have left some Africans lighter shades of brown and even, on rare occasions, yellowish red....and though the Higher Class Ethiopians ("Ethnic Ethiopians") who are not the color of the blue black/dark brown majority Ethiopians deny they are mixed, but are indeed mixed from a thousand years ago.....we in Africa know what a Black Man is and we know the PROOF that grows from our scalps. The one true hair.
And that one drop of African blood....does not make you black.
We are not so worthless...that just anybody can be us.
Deeds or actions...being down for Black people and the Black cause......DOES NOT make you black.
As much as I love and idolize Malcolm X....as much as I despise and loathe Clarence Thomas....the fact is, the one that I detest is the one with the most African blood.
Deeds and actions...do not make you black.
Black BLOOD is what makes you black. Authentic.
And as an African, I must say that black children are beautiful....to me, they're more beautiful than White or Biracial children...and they deserve to be born, because I am an African mother and I say so...and Africa
Africa...must not perish.
Thats right folks, while we fight over who the Egyptians were...The remnats of Pathros and Mizriam...K.Mt and Ta-Merry...The Worlds First Engineers, Scientists, Doctors, Surgeons, and Architects...
THE BLACK EGYPTIANS!!!
ARE STILL THERE....
LOOK at those beautiful Children...No Mediteranians here...Only beautiful Brown skinned African children....This is why we are here..folks because Racists want to keep these people away from their own history...RACISTS want to say Egyptians like this:
Were a minority and DONT LET THESE RACIST make a Youtube Clip with those Egyptians...LOL...They will claim they are MORE EURASIAN but will never present them as representative of Egyptians..
This is why we are here...Not for ourselves...but for them. To show that the people like that we the Originators of KMT, TA-Merry or as my forefathers called it...PATHROS and Mizriam!!
God Bless Egypt Isiah 19:
21And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
PEACE!!
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Says Koal: [Sadat] .. despised his African heritage and was basically put in office by the SAUDI ARABIANS and the Arab League....because they wanted to entice the Black Americans after the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement to support all things MUSLIM, all things ARAB ....and especially to support PALESTINE.
Anwar Sadat was not put in power to "entice" Black Americans about anything. During the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat was already a protege of Nasser long before the "Black Power" movement or King's civil rights movement and Sadat continued to hold other important posts in Nasser's administration. Indeed as Boof herself says elsewhere he distanced himself from his black Sudanese roots. His rise to power had nothing to do with 'Black Americans.'
says Kola: "I don't deny that I'm a controversial, provocative public figure. I reject all man-made religions, be it Christianity, Islam, the Jewish faith, Buddhism or any worship that was created by men. I am a womanist and an African mother. I bare my breasts in the river once a month and I believe in the womb. "
But isnt the "womanist" religion itself something "man made"? Why is "womanism" any more "authentic" than say Vodun? And a variety of white feminists are into the "womanist" thing, drawing upon European "earth mother" theories as background. Doesn't "womanism" have more in common with white feminists than the native religions of Africa?
says Kola I am an African woman, technically bi-racial, who was adopted and raised in Washington, D.C. by a Black American family. Kola Boof was born Naima Bint Harith in 1969 in Omdurman, Sudan to Arab Egyptian archeologist Harith Bin Farouk and his wife Jiddi, a Gisi-Waaq Oromo. If Kola Boof is herself "technically" biracial, why is she beating up on biracial people in some of her rants and questioning their "authenticity" to be called black?
We never speak this way, but they want the fantasy grandeur of ancient kings and Queens and they crave the past. Many of them "talk, talk, talk" about Africa and being BLACK....but their wives and children are white. It's all a farce, because they don't know who they are.
"I’ll get to the Osama Bin Laden that I knew and lived with in a moment, and as well, I will address head on my many critics, such as Peter Bergen, who’ve claimed that I’m making all this up—but first I want to share with you that as my story broke, ignorant white women on the internet demanded: “Who would name their daughter KOLA BOOF!?”; black women charged: “Oh god—another SuperHead making sistas look bad and trying to make a buck!”; a black man announced: “With all the fine bitches in Morocco, why would Osama choose her?” (oblivious to the fact that there are virtually no beautiful women in Morocco who can speak Arabic, English, are tall enough to compliment Osama’s 6’7 frame, can shoot a rabbit with more precision than Osama, and of most importance to Osama, are vaginally infibulated all in one)...
The Osama Bin Laden that I knew in 1996 Morocco was a painfully soft spoken, religiously driven but politically and psychologically astute psychotic gangbanger, a chronic pot-smoker whose favorite foods were spinach yogurt and watermelon, and whose greatest joys were sex (“not the kind one has with his wife”, he used to tease as he grabbed me)..
Whether I’m right or wrong, I never, at any time, felt like a “sex slave”. I refuse to be called one...
What I felt was that I was very cunning and practical in my manipulation of Osama, and that because of my personal will and sexual “etiquette”, we were, on an animalistic level--equals. I felt that I took my beatings well and that I challenged him as a poet—his work ultimately surpassing my own—and of course, one of Osama’s chief complaints about me was that I strived to be Alice Walker when what he really dreamed of was Nefertiti, but alas, I survived and I am alive, no matter what I had to endure, and unlike Osama’s wives and other mistresses, I became an entity unto myself."
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Fair enough, Kola is entitled to sleep with whom she wants, and initially she hung around with bin Laden willingly it seems. Why did she willingly sleep around with a white Arab then turns around and beats up on the brothers as "traitors" who sleep with a blonde? Later on she says she was kidnapped and forced. OK, but then why is she defending and glorifying her time with a white Arab who allegedly abused her?
Her account seems to contain a touch of hankering for "reflected glory" or at least media attention based on her association with bin Laden.
To be fair, Kola has said some things that need to be said bluntly re black women, and the "native sons" of Egypt, and she is a work in progress. But she has a lot of inconsistencies and distortions across the board.
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Interesting post Jari. Kola seems to have some different opinions on some things.
The Unity of ALL races is a must and we must not let color displace us. All Black people are Beautiful just like all White people. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We should respect each other enough to love all the different colors in our communites. Without the differences we would be in a boring world. We have went up against mighty mountains and seen freedom fighters of all colors and ethinicity. Learning about different cultures and respect is whats needed. Lovin being Black, White, Arab, Jew is a must, you must have love in you to Show love to others. Like it says in Psalms 133, Nothing better then to Brethern dwell together in Unity.
We as a people must put aside our differences and show love to our neighbours. Gods love is for everyone and the quicker people realize this, the better we can make this corrupt world.
Peace
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