No Name In The Street by Kola Boof

[Avila Thomson]

They killed their own mother/
And the White People watched.

They killed their own mother
because they wanted to be
FREE/
(of the pain in her body)

Out of lies...they conjured up Hands.
Fists that PIMPED the Soul Machete.
They killed their own mother
because--she was black.
As Ghana
as dancing/as smiling
as chocolate cake batter on children's faces
as dusk
as cranberries
as yams/as honey
as Red and Gold leaves come autumn
as charcoal...they killed their own mother.
And the White People watched.

You see them with their lies
African nigger-stock
Proud and free as Piss
HIP hopp-ING
and carrying on
about their ancestors
—as Blind and ignorant as
new puppies underneath
a House Porch.
This is what Blind love reaps.
This is what Blind love reaps.
Disappointment that has no name in the street.

These killers
with no name in the street
who dare Call/ the White Man...Satan.

These HIP...HIP killers.

[nattyreb]

Very disturbing... on a whole lotta levels.

Sis. all your posts seem to deal with Kola Boof, is that your main purpose in being here? If not, please correct me!

[Isanusu]

Kola Boof is a FRAUD!
Created and supported by Israeli media apparatus.

[Avila Thomson]

Originally Posted by nattyreb

Very disturbing... on a whole lotta levels.

Sis. all your posts seem to deal with Kola Boof, is that your main purpose in being here? If not, please correct me!

LOL

Hi, Nattyreb!

I just found about Kola Boof two months ago and since then I've been researching everything on her that I can find.

I was so upset that none of the brothers and sisters in my clique had ever heard of her, so I started posting stuff about her to get her information and her viewpoint out there.

I haven't heard from a sister this powerful and with so much to say in a long time, but just like with Malcolm, everyone's trying to silence her or hold it against her that she's not perfect.

No artist is perfect, we can't expect to agree with everything that anyone does, but Kola Boof is the only black person right now who is saying anything meaningful to my life and my experience. Most black men only romanticize Africa and focus on their wants and needs. You would never hear a brother talking about colorism in his work or defending black women from hip hop's image of them. You would never hear a brother calling out the sellout brothers who talk black but promote white women's image in everything they do.

Kola Boof bravely does all that. So yes, I am spreading the word about old sister girl. Her books are phenomenal!!!

[nattyreb]

Thanks for your reply, Sis., altho it's absolutely untrue that you wouldn't find a brother to speak against the ills you stated, this forum is chock-full of 'em! Check 'em out!

i hope to see more of *your* essence and not so much Kola's, although i understand your excitement, your vibe is sorta like a publicist. :???: We all have our own individual purpose on the planet, so let your *own* light shine, Sista!

[Avila Thomson]

Originally Posted by nattyreb

Thanks for your reply, Sis., altho it's absolutely untrue that you wouldn't find a brother to speak against the ills you stated, this forum is chock-full of 'em! Check 'em out!

i hope to see more of *your* essence and not so much Kola's, although i understand your excitement, your vibe is sorta like a publicist. :???: We all have our own individual purpose on the planet, so let your *own* light shine, Sista!

NO---you misuderstood.

I meant a Black men in leadership position such as Farrkhan, Jesse Jackson or any black male celebrity.

I have never once seem/heard them mention that fact that many, many black men are prejudiced, colorist against black females and date/marry accordingly. Kola Boof is the first and she takes no prisons. I have even noticed that most black women are in denial about the self-hatred in our community, trying to protecting black men's ego at all costs.

Although brothers on this board may speak of these issues, I have not experienced black men calling out other black men in public or even admitting that it exists.

We also have sisters with serious self-hate issues, but just like the studies show, it's way more black men who are openly prejudiced against black women.

If black females don't say something about it now, and say it loud and clear, then we're going to produce another generation of black boys who are even worse, because right now this is the only example they have is the one set by rappers, pimps and black celebrities who only date/marry white.

Kola is the first and only person I've heard who is brave enough to risk being hated just to tell the truth.

I'm not her publicist. I'm a really grateful FAN of the woman. I just can't believe that somebody is finally speaking up for the sisters and making demands. I guess it took an African woman, who knows that she belongs in front, to speak up so boldly.

[IfasehunReincarnated]

i hope to see more of *your* essence and not so much Kola's, although i understand your excitement

poems go in the spoken word forum. ⇒

[nattyreb]

i appreciate your response, Sista. Let me start by saying that it's up to the people to determine who their leadership is, those who the media props up as our leaders are not those who are actually putting in the daily work of educating and working to bring an end to our collective misery. Our *true* leaders *do* encompass not only some of the brothas on this site, but the brothas whose writings are featured on this site and thetalkingdrum.com, as well as the everyday brothas whose impact on our people, and particularly our young boys, may forever go unheralded.

i do get irked when i see black men who choose the farthest thing from a nappy-headed, melinated Sista that they can find: but i also understand that there are many Sistas who do the same. We can't let this system and it's media off the hook in presenting a distorted picture to us all! For example, Kola's choice to attack light-skinned blacks for being something they can't help being born as is illogical and counter-revolutionary. We Sistas can't ever let anyone's choices determine how we self-define, and my more pressing issue is our Sistas who choose to alter their physical image to fit into a pre-packaged format designed by the crackas who are the ultimate decision-makers on what we consume as "entertainment." Our people are lapping at the bowl of what others tell us is "beauty" and have done so for centuries. Suffice it to say for right now, that i'm definitely prepared to struggle over Kola's strengths as well are her weaknesses on all the issues she raises without anyone feeling personally wounded, and hopefully we can get down like that in the future.

For right now, for the limited time i'm online, i want to offer that before you or anybody else states that Kola is the *only one* to ever speak in a radical voice for our Sistas, that you *please* check out two books: Assata Shakur's biography "Assata" about which there are discussions on the forum as well as in Queens United; and Winnie Mandela's "Part of My Soul Went With Him," a small book, a quick, absorbing, powerful read. Both of these Sistas are valiant and courageous; both of these Sistas understand that our struggle encompasses our entire black family; and both of these Sistas understand that as Sistas we are unique in our being the lowest of the low not only in white society, but in black everyday life. In the spirit of P.E. (political education), i urge you to check out these Sistas and i guarantee that you will not only feel them as fully as you do Kola, but that you will appreciate them equally... if not a whole lot more.

Originally Posted by Avila Thomson

NO---you misuderstood.

I meant a Black men in leadership position such as Farrkhan, Jesse Jackson or any black male celebrity.

I have never once seem/heard them mention that fact that many, many black men are prejudiced, colorist against black females and date/marry accordingly. Kola Boof is the first and she takes no prisons. I have even noticed that most black women are in denial about the self-hatred in our community, trying to protecting black men's ego at all costs.

Although brothers on this board may speak of these issues, I have not experienced black men calling out other black men in public or even admitting that it exists.

We also have sisters with serious self-hate issues, but just like the studies show, it's way more black men who are openly prejudiced against black women.

If black females don't say something about it now, and say it loud and clear, then we're going to produce another generation of black boys who are even worse, because right now this is the only example they have is the one set by rappers, pimps and black celebrities who only date/marry white.

Kola is the first and only person I've heard who is brave enough to risk being hated just to tell the truth.

I'm not her publicist. I'm a really grateful FAN of the woman. I just can't believe that somebody is finally speaking up for the sisters and making demands. I guess it took an African woman, who knows that she belongs in front, to speak up so boldly.

[IfasehunReincarnated]

We love us some Assata and Mama Winnie around here!
http://www.assatashakur.org/forums/u...ghlight=winnie