She actually was invited hear years ago and came into the chat room and spoke about her situation when the 'bin laden sex slave' rumors were going around. I think it was '05 or '06.
I ran into her on another MB. I had C&Ped her essay on "Class, Color, or Status" and hearing about it, she'd joined the board specifically to discuss it with me. I wrote previously that IMO her take on black male/female relationships wasn't "100%." Well, that turned out to be really what she WANTED to "discuss"/change my mind on. I didn't realize it at the time, seeing as the essay was pure
dynamite on white supremacy and how black folk have bought into it.... which is what I wanted to discuss! Btw, I hadn't realized I was speaking to Kola Boof (she registered under a different username) until another member P.M.ed and told me that was who I was talking to. I went "wow!" until another member P.M.ed with the same message (her writing style is so distinctive that anyone who has ever read anything of hers knows her, almost immediately). I never let on that I knew it was she (if she wanted to stay incognito, no skin off my nose. I was dealing with her
ideas, not her personality). Still, I was a bit put off by her 1) provincialism - only what's happening in Cali is important and REAL and 2) her refusal to accept the FACT that only 1 out of 10 black men married out of the race (she "insisted" almost every black man in Cali, thus, the U.S. **sigh** was married to or dating white women). When she finally left the board, she left kinda "disgruntled." I am NOT her favorite person!
If Khasm's link is correct, I'm disappointed, but not really surprised. Her skewed (FALSE!) view of black men and marriage.... and her frustration at black people, in general, for not peeking the hole card of white supremacists, but most especially.... based on
HER international experience and observations.... ABJECT frustration with
black women for not realizing we are the most desirable of ALL woman
could, IMO, lead her to PROVE the desirability of her, black woman, to white men. For me, if true, her engagement to a white man only clarifies her (then) strange desire to dismiss everything relevant in the essay (to me) and just
make me agree with her false proclamation of black men WHOLESALE abandoning black women for white women. Although she was frustrating the
hayle outta me (refusal to deal with the FACTS does that to some of us), recognizing her isolation and how she seemingly feels she is under
unrelenting attack while manning the trenches in a war zone, I was gentle with my objections. Her desire to make black women AWARE that we are the most desirable of women to men everywhere, physically, if not socially, I felt and still feel, is a worthwhile service in TRUTH to our people (if moms is worthless, how can any child that comes out of her womb be anything
but worthless?
).
At any rate, MY lifetime experience with brothers (outside message boards, that is
) and my refusal to back away from that experience - not to mention the FACTS - pissed her off a lil. Unlike our dear sister Kola, I don't have to "prove" anything.... and I certainly don't need what my brown eyes tell ME to be validated by white people, namely, that I am the standard by which ALL women are judged.
Nonetheless, she did leave me with 2 of her short stories that I shared with the board and blew
everyone away! Kola Boof is - and I don't care HOW many times I say it - a
brilliant writer! Within a "paragraph" you recognize her people as people you grew up with, black people you've known all your life. As an intellectual and as a writer, our dear,
skewed-vision sister is astonishing.
But then, how many of us at age 10 or 11, watched our loving mother and protective father be murdered before our very eyes? Be sent to live with our grandmother who put us up for adoption while still grieving our parents' horrific murders because we were too "dark" to be in her so-called white family? Have uncles send us money in our private diaspora in other lands, but never be invited into their "white" families? Be rejected by our ignorant, adoptive family within a year or so as being a "witch" because we were too "smart?"