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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 270
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:08 pm: | 
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Urban_scribe,
We await your apology.
In the meantime, HOWARD DODSON, "your friend"--the director of the Schomburg Center has been made aware of your "claims" and can be reached at 212-491-2208.
As Ms. Boof had lunch with Derrick Bell this afternoon, she learned that Dr. Bell and Howard Dodson have been friends for over twenty years and Derrick Bell, who was at Ms. Boof's event with his wife Janet, was appalled that anyone would invent such a lie about Kola Boof. He can be contacted at: dab1@nyu.edu
The person who actually runs the Schomburg Center is JAMES MURRAY, Curator, and he invites anyone doubting Ms. Boof's event to telephone him at 212-491-2235.
Or email him at jmurray@nypl.org
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Let any and all "IN THE INDUSTRY" who read
this message please be advised that Kola Boof
is tired of people making up outrageous lies
about her character, her actions, her mentality, her sexuality and she is prepared to sue anyone "of any caliber" who passes malicious gossip or substantiates "lies" about her.
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A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1888
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:11 pm: |
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA!!! Wouldn't the SIMPLE solution be to just stop posting your junk here???? HUNH? DUH! |
Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 272
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:14 pm: |
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Urban_scribe,
We await your apology.
In the meantime, HOWARD DODSON, "your friend"--the director of the Schomburg Center has been made aware of your "claims" and can be reached at 212-491-2208.
As Ms. Boof had lunch with Derrick Bell this afternoon, she learned that Dr. Bell and Howard Dodson have been friends for over twenty years and Derrick Bell, who was at Ms. Boof's event with his wife Janet, was appalled that anyone would invent such a lie about Kola Boof. He can be contacted at: dab1@nyu.edu
The person who actually runs the Schomburg Center is JAMES MURRAY, Curator, and he invites anyone doubting Ms. Boof's event to telephone him at 212-491-2235.
Or email him at jmurray@nypl.org
__________________
Let any and all "IN THE INDUSTRY" who read
this message please be advised that Kola Boof
is tired of people making up outrageous lies
about her character, her actions, her mentality, her sexuality and she is prepared to sue anyone "of any caliber" who passes malicious gossip or substantiates "lies" about her.
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Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1024
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:19 pm: |
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good for kola I dont blame her chris hayden is right |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1890
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:21 pm: |
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WHEN YOU HAVE A CHOICE AND YOU CONTINUALLY AND VOLUNTARILY PUT YOURSELF IN SO CALLED "HOSTILE" TERRITORY YOU HAVE ZERO STANDING TO SUE ANYONE YOU DOLT! ESPECIALLY WHEN NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO COME TO THIS SPOT AND READ OR POST ON A PUBlIC OPINION BOARD! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAA!!!! |
Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1025
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:30 pm: |
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why shouldnt kola post here? shes as hostile as anyone do you ever make sense? |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1891
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:32 pm: |
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Do you dummy?? |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1892
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:34 pm: |
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CAN YOU EVEN READ???? Who said she couldn't come here????? I SAID SHE CANT SUE ANYBODY for the reasons she posted. OKAY??? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9900
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:38 pm: |
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If kola would quit lying about how she has been banned from posting here, then she wouldn't look so foolish when she does. Kola over estimates her impact on this board. She is a drama queen who provides a lot of laughs for us. Nobody is passionate enough about her to actually hate her. Everybody has come to know what to expect from her. She and her sock puppets and her pretensions provide a lot of head-skaking chuckles. |
Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1026
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:40 pm: |
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yes she can sue you bevause you know her personally by this board an if you state that she is a communist party member who does drugs then the public can take it for fact because you know her and you said its true so yes she can sue you ubran_scribe jeaopordized kolas reputation by putting a lie in the publishing industry that can keep kola from getting work she can sue urban_scribe an the shomburg will back kola becaus legally they have to |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9902
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 03:49 pm: |
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I'm curious, "enchantment". Do you actually expect intelligent people to believe that you are not one of kola boof's many sock puppets??? |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 285
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:59 pm: |
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This is insane. Why is Kola even entertaining the idea that her reading did not occur? One thing she said at the reading is that no one listens to black women. With this back and forth a sad point is simply being reiterated. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9914
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 05:15 pm: |
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Gimme a break. This is hardly an example of people not "listening to a black woman". It not about who is saying something, it's about the veracity of what is being said. And the jury is still out. |
Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 286
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 06:06 pm: |
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Cynique if Kola said her pen name started with K you wouldn't believe it. I was there. End of story. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9916
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 06:43 pm: |
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End of the story my eye, or is something said by somebody as illogical as you valid. I am a truth seeker and I embrace it when it is obvious just like I question it when it is doubt. End of story. |
Urban_scribe
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Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 513
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 09:44 pm: |
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19 September 2007
Howard Dodson
Director-in-Chief
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801
Tel: (212) 491-2200
Fax: (212) 491-6760
Dear Mr. Dodson:
It is with esteemed pleasure and heartfelt gratitude that I inform you I’ve tremendously enjoyed various events celebrating Black art, literature, culture, and history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture since my days as a high school student, more than two decades ago. I am presently on the Center’s mailing list. The most recent Schomburg event I attended was this year’s 9th Annual Harlem Book Fair where I sat dazzled by the discussion between Walter Mosley and Howard Zinn and, later, a lively discussion at the Countee Cullen Library debating the ethics of commissioned book reviews.
In recent months, I’d learned of yet another event to be hosted by the Center that I very much desired attending. This event featured Ms. Kola Boof. I’ve become somewhat familiar with Ms. Boof during the past year via a popular and most reputable African-American on-line discussion forum, yet I’ve never had the honor of seeing Ms. Boof in person. I remembered Ms. Boof’s event advertised as scheduled for Sunday, September 16, 2007 at the Schomburg’s Langston Hughes Auditorium; however, I could not recall the exact hour of the event. Suffice it to say, I contacted the Center to confirm the time of Ms. Boof’s scheduled engagement. The information given to me was that no events were scheduled at the Center for Sunday, September 16, 2007. Confused, I visited the NYPL website. The website confirmed what had been told to me: No events scheduled at the Center for Sunday, September 16, 2007. For posterity's sake I took a screen shot of the NYPL website page. I’ve enclosed a printout of the screen shot herewith for your reference.
The following day, Monday, September 17, 2007, Ms. Boof’s publicist, a Ms. Nafisa Goma, announced on the aforementioned on-line discussion forum what a huge success Ms. Boof’s Schomburg appearance had been. Ms. Goma went on to detail attendees, including the “former Mayor of Harlem” and two of his brothers, (pray tell, who is the former Mayor of Harlem?), Ms. Boof’s attire for the occasion, as well as Damon Haynes himself, along with a group of approximately seven men, leading Ms. Boof out of the Langston Hughes Auditorium by hoisting her up and playfully spanking her. As stated, I regularly attend events at the Center. As such, I found Ms. Goma’s report of this behavior to be in direct contradiction of the Schomburg’s dignified and pre-eminent global reputation. Ms. Goma, who identifies herself as an editor at Door of Kush, (Ms. Boof’s publisher), a publicist, and an attorney, went on to state that you, Mr. Dodson, are a personal friend of Ms. Kola Boof’s. Now more confused than ever, I took the liberty of posting the screen shot from the NYPL website indicating that no events were held on Sunday, September 16, 2007 in any of the venues of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Needless to say, a heated debate resulted between Ms. Goma and me on said forum.
I located on the Internet several press releases indicating Ms. Boof’s Schomburg engagement, yet I was unable to find anything officially released from the Center itself announcing this event. Mr. Dodson, my time is valuable. I realize your time is equally valuable, if not moreso, yet I must implore you, sir, to set the record straight. Did Ms. Boof in fact appear at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, or any venue thereof, on Sunday, September 16, 2007, or did she not? If so, would you accommodate me by looking into why I was given erroneous information via telephone, and why did the NYPL website not list this event? Further, in the interest of presenting a truthful, authoritative, and impartial resolution to this conflict and, more important, in the interest of protecting the long-established prominence of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture and its profound significance, I duly request that you grant me permission to post your reply verbatim and in its entirety on the aforesaid on-line discussion forum.
I eagerly await your response. Thank you for your time.
Respectfully yours,
signed
My name (printed)
My title
XX:ab
Encl: a/s
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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 277
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 11:12 pm: |
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Prolonging your promise of an apology Urban_scribe??
MR. DODSON IS WAITING FOR YOU TO CALL HIM
ON HIS "DIRECT" NUMBER BELOW, but your letter
is fine, too.
In the meantime, HOWARD DODSON, "your friend"--the director of the Schomburg Center has been made aware of your "claims" and can be reached at 212-491-2208.
THAT'S HIS DIRECT LINE.
As Ms. Boof had lunch with Derrick Bell this afternoon, she learned that Dr. Bell and Howard Dodson have been friends for over twenty years and Derrick Bell, who was at Ms. Boof's event with his wife Janet, was appalled that anyone would invent such a lie about Kola Boof.
He can be contacted at: dab1@nyu.edu
The person who actually runs the Schomburg Center is JAMES MURRAY, Curator, and he invites anyone doubting Ms. Boof's event to telephone him at 212-491-2235.
Or email him at jmurray@nypl.org
__________________
Let any and all "IN THE INDUSTRY" who read
this message please be advised that Kola Boof
is tired of people making up outrageous lies
about her character, her actions, her mentality, her sexuality and she is prepared to sue anyone "of any caliber" who passes malicious gossip or substantiates "lies" about her.
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9922
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 11:24 pm: |
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So tell me, Nafola. If you are proven right will you complain to your buddies at Schomberg Center about their negligence in providing the correct information to the the public? There could've been many more folks who plannned to attend your event but didn't show up because of the misinformation. Wassup wid dat? Were you there on the "QT" on a complimentary basis, in exchange for providing them free books for their store?? Or wat? heh-heh. |
Urban_scribe
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Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 514
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 11:31 pm: |
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Nafisa, if an apology is in order from me to Kola, I will certainly grant that apology - as soon as I hear back from Mr. Dodson, and he confirms, in writing on official Schomburg letterhead, that Kola did indeed appear at the Center on that date.
There's no need to spam the forum with repetitious posts of whom Kola ate lunch with.
BTW, when exactly did Kola depart NY? She and I could have finally had an opportunity to meet.
Also, your deadline has passed to produce your legal credentials?
Lastly, please refresh my memory of the "LIE" I told on Kola. I merely passed along information I uncovered. If a mistake was made, it wasn't on my part. As an attorney-at-law, you should know that you cannot shoot the messenger.
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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 278
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 11:58 pm: |
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The Schomburg didn't do any negligence.
Kola Boof's event was NOT a Schomburg "in-house" event, it was sponsored by the New York Mutual Insurance Writer's Colony and the Schomburg auditorium was rented for the event by the writer's group.
Additionally, Ms. Boof's event DOES APPEAR on the Schomburg's printed CALENDAR in the lobby and the center will make a copy available to anyone who enquires.
That's already been explained, that "for legal reasons" they don't post events on their website that are not Produced by the Schomburg.
James Murray, the curator at the museum, ended up producing Kola Boof's event because they became friends and he and Mr. Haynes took an interest in Kola Boof. Everyone there has become friends with her---they've invited her back, in fact.
The Schomburg closes every summer for renovations and Kola Boof's was the first event of the new fall season. It was also very successful.
Urban_scribe took it upon herself to declare Kola Boof was a "liar", "making up this event" and vowed that she would prove it so that she could show everyone "this is Kola Boof we're dealing with"---a supposedly lying scheming mentally unstable and wholly unscrupulous person who can't be trusted by the people in their mutual field, the publishing world, according to Ms. Urban_scribe.
This was stated several times over more than one day by Ms. Urban_scribe in very mocking and threatening language.
She DENIED being employed by the Hachette Book Group (formerly Warner Books).
It is CLEAR that her intent was to maliciously assail and assassinate Kola Boof's reputation and to humiliate and destroy Ms. Boof's credibility for her own personal and prejudicial reasons.
Urban_scribe referred to me as "must be Jamaican" if I can hold down two or more careers.
She referred "negatively" to Ms. Boof's CHOICE to pose topless on the back of her books and assigned that choice to Ms. Boof's "mental capacity".
The "tone" of her posts (including snapshots from the Schomburg Website) is in no way vague, but is grossly vicious and states emphatically that Ms. Boof is a liar who makes up "stories about herself", etc. etc.
But the FACT is that Ms. Boof does not make up stories about herself.
She is a real public figure and is indeed in the press quite often.
The things Ms. Boof states are true and she is
allowed to pursue "publicity" and "fame" just like
any other artist trying to build a career.
Ms. Boof also has every right as an American citizen to pursue happiness and success and should not be maligned for being "ambitious" and "tenacious" in attaining the success that she wants.
Many African American women seem to loathe Ms. Boof simply because she thinks so much of herself and because she has a superior drive and will.
It is wrong---morally and legally---for anyone to maliciously harm another person's morale simply because they don't think that person deserves to be successful or to be heard. Ms. Boof has not tried to lessen Urban_scribe's goals and achievements, yet Urban_scribe has fully and openly vowed to assassinate Ms. Boof's character and credibility and has expressed quite openly that NO ONE in the publishing industry will ever embrace Ms. Boof's career--regardless of her talent.
That statement alone is worth a million dollars, and could be demanded of anyone who employs Ms. Urban_scribe, because it is that employer that gives her the power to undermine Ms. Boof's efforts as an author.
Others on this site or affiliated with this site have conspired to pass "lies" about Ms. Boof's sexuality and personal character--all without even knowing Ms. Boof or having ever met her, all of which is very damaging and hurtful to Ms. Boof and her innocent children--children who depend on their mother's ability to use her talents to provide stability and security for them.
Like Urban_scribe, Ms. Boof is also the mother of two sons.
Are Ms. Boof's sons to starve while Ms. Urban_scribe makes a good living and willfully and maliciously undermines the career aspirations of Ms. Boof?
Should Ms. Boof be preempted from having a career because she's topless and lets male fans hoist her into the air and carry her through lobbys?
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5787
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 12:09 am: |
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This is a re-post - in case you missed it.
Kola B!tch - Shut The Fukc Up with your asinine threats about lawsuits.
You're so got damn stupid you can't even spell hearsay, but you're going
to sue somebody? Learn the difference between libel and slander. That's
what you need to do before you run your stank nasty mouth about suing
somebody.
You're so mentally challenged that you actually believe that you're fooling
anyone with the Nafisa Goma act. Why don't you drop that shit you lame-
brained dingleberry.
What "malicious" gossip could be spread about a jackass such as yourself
that has posted and posed all over the internet naked (front and back)
Lies about their associations, lies about their background, lies about
EVERYTHING!!!
Lied so much that you yourself probably can't even distinguish between
what is truth and what is a baldfaced lie.
You can't produce one shred of evidence that all that crap about your
childhood is the truth. You don't even have a birth certificate
(supposedly) and don't even know your date of birth (so says you).
You have already been labeled as a prostitute, so why didn't you sue
about that?
Do you really believe that YOUR TRASHY REPUTATION WOULD STAND UP
IN A COURT OF LAW AGAINST ANYONE HERE???
You've threatened to sue people here and elsewhere before, and you
haven't done jack, so like I already said - S T F U
And other than to keep your fucktarded ass in check, I personally don't
give a shit about you. Not a flyin' fukc.
You simple minded weak ass wench.
And you already know who I am, uh huh.
So sue me.
Ree-Tard.
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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 280
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 12:11 am: |
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P.S. Urban_scribe,
Kola Boof was not in N.Y. today, Derrick Bell was visiting in California.
Kola has now gone to JENA, Louisiana for the march tomorrow. She will meet Al Sharpton in person for the first time.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5789
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 12:14 am: |
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quote:Nafisa_goma
Bronze Member
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 280
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 12:11 am:
P.S. Urban_scribe,
Kola Boof was not in N.Y. today, Derrick Bell was visiting in California.
Kola has now gone to JENA, Louisiana for the march tomorrow. She will meet Al Sharpton in person for the first time.
So you're in Jena now, Kola? Damn, your ass sure does get around. Make sure you take plenty of pix of you and Al Sharpton. K?
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A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1893
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 04:48 am: |
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The question that goes through my mind is why in the world would professional men hoist up someone as big as kola, wearing a skirt, a short one at that, risking exposing her underwear, and spank her, thereby exposing themselves to a really litigous situation commonly known as sexual harrasmment? Would any public figure be so ignorant? That's what I want to know. |
A_womon
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Post Number: 1894
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And another thing, kola/nafisa please keep me posted on how your lawsuit goes, because if you DO get before a judge with this, I'd like to have a go at you and Door of Kush. After all, by your standards, I have been damaged by you and the good editor, Nafisa Goma. Didn't you call me and my book a flop on this very board? Isn't that extremely prejudicial coming from someone of your and your editor's stature in "our industry"? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? |
Urban_scribe
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Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 515
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 07:11 am: |
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One correction to your rambling, Nafisa/Kola, I have 4 SONS.
The rest of it is just that - rambling.
The thing is, everything I've stated regarding you/Kola, I can pull the thread to verify that you/Kola said/wrote/posted it.
Ninety percent of what you claim I allegedly said/posted, I challenge you to pull the thread and prove it.
You think just because you post/write/say something, that makes it true.
NEWSFLASH - you're entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts.
Did you understand that, or do I need to repeat it?
Another matter that comes to mind, Kola has bragged repeatedly on this forum, and you have as well, Nafisa, (supposedly on Kola's behalf), of how famous Kola is and what a celebrity she is and how influential she is. In fact, was it not you who posted a laundry list of all the prestigious universities throughout the USofA where Kola's "autobiography" is taught? What's the title of it again - A Million Little Pieces of a Diary of a Lost Girl?
See, what Kola's problem is, she wants to be BIG and she's trying to fake it till she makes it, but it's not happening fast enough or big enough for her.
Ever notice how Kola recycles titles of famous works? While titles cannot be copyrighted and everyone can use the same title over and over and over, in REAL publishing, we try to avoid that wherever possible. In REAL publishing, we perform a database search to see if a proposed title has been used on another book, song, film, painting, etc. Only if absolutely necessary would the title be reused. The reason for this is because we want the title of our author's work to stand out and stand on its own. We don't want the industry to say, "Isn't there another book by that title?"
But Kola, on the other hand, wants to be mentioned in conjunction with these famous works, which is the reason she recycles titles. This practice of hers enables her to get her name out there along with the famous and their well-known works. You see, people are constantly researching those famous names and/or famous works. When they look into them, Kola's name and work will pop up because she used a similar or exact title.
It's a guerilla marketing tactic. Plain and simple.
Ever notice that each time we hear any "news" about Kola, it's really not about Kola. It's actually about the celebrities, including the has-beens and the notorious, whose names she dropped, and Kola's name is mentioned during the report because it was she who originated the "rumor".
I notice that, Kola. I know your dirty little guerilla marketing tactics.
Here's how the latter tactic works, folx: You'll note in virtually every post Kola/Nafisa writes, the name of a celebrity, a popular film or book or song or prestigious institution or award is mentioned, correct?
I mean, am I lying about that, or are we all on the same page here?
Statistically speaking, only 1 in 7 people who read or overhear a "rumor," take the time to investigate and verify it - before repeating that rumor. Only 1 in 7. That means if say, 70 people read Kola's/Nafisa's post where she drops names, only 10 will verify it. Once they learn that it's bullshit, in most probability, they'll remain silent. The other 60 will repeat the rumor WITHOUT confirming whether or not it's true.
The rumor is now passed along to another 60 people - minimum. Remember, only 1 in 7 of the following 60 will verify it; roughly 9 people. They'll most likely dismiss it as the lie it is and speak on it no further. The other 51 people who did not verify the rumor - will pass it along to at least another 51 people. Only 1 in 7 of which will verify, and most likely remain silent. All others will pass it along without verifying. And, eventually, due to all the name dropping, the media picks it up, it shows up in Google searches, etc. The trail leads back to Kola, so Kola's name pops up in the media.
It's a pyramid scheme. It's an old guerilla marketing tactic, and Kola/Nafisa exploits it to the fullest.
So you see, Nafisa/Kola, your problem with me is that I'm 1 of the 7 who verifies, but DOESN'T REMAIN SILENT.
I know what you are and I see you for what you are - a leech.
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5790
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 10:21 am: |
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U.S. - You're on target as always. I haven't read much of Kola's work other than the crap that she writes on this forum, but as much as she lies she's likely to steal and plagiarize also.
She does consistently link herself to the "rich and famous."
Some examples are:
Was the mistress of . . . (OSL)
Shared a boyfriend with . . . (Whitney)
She spoke with . . . (Bobby Brown on the phone)
Went to so and so's home . . . (take your pick)
Boyfriend was the plumber of . . . (Halle Berry)
Kola Boof expects to enter a publishing collaboration with her friend, publishing tycoon ZANE
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/11222/18663.html
It's all rather pathetic but as you said, most people will not question the veracity of the Kola nonsense.
Take for instance the subject line of this very thread; what exactly is your lie? That the Schomburg didn't list her event on their website? After she bragged about how she was going to be the "headline."
And I'm not sure if you noticed, but all the pre-event press releases were disseminated by Kola.
We already know that she doesn't have anyone working on her publicity except for her alter-ego. Otherwise, why would she continue to post about it when it's obvious that nobody to speak of finds her that interesting.
She goes to so much trouble to get publicity, but when no reporters show up at her event, she claims that reporters are haters. Aren't those the people that bring you more publicity??? Isn't the objective to be in magazines and newspapers???
Poor Kola. She's played out and washed up. And I'll say it once again since she never seems to get it, Kola's a joke that everybody gets but her.
The headline is really just a footnote.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9925
Registered: 01-2004
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In regard to the explanation Nafola just supplied about her affair being held in the space rented out by the Schomberg center to "The New York Mutual Insurance Writer's Group", why wasn't this mentioned from the get-go? It would've cleared everything up if - what is claimed is true. New York Mutual Insurance Writer's Group?????? I thought insurance companies were underwriters. LOL |
Urban_scribe
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Post Number: 516
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Yeah, Mzuri, I can't figure out what "LIE" I told, neither.
'Scuse me while I consult with legal counsel...
Nafisa, d'you think I can sue for libel? Defamation of character? How 'bout malicious lies about me being spread that are preventing me from future gainful employment, causing my children to starve? Jeopardizing the roof over their heads. The shoes on their feet. The clothes on their backs. Two of my children have asthma. I suffer from allergies. How will I pay for our medication?
The legendary Jerry Lewis says I'm too old to be one of his kids, but he was very moved by my novel and called me a brilliant writer.
So did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Martha Stewart. In fact, Martha Stewart was so moved by my book she said she'd donate some pots and pans and coordinated linen to us. And my close personal friend, Ginuwine, is going to deliver all of these goods - personally himself. Afterwards, he will take my kids and me to dinner at Tavern on the Green then he'll help us locate a cozy, secluded spot to sleep in Central Park located on the exotic island of Manhattan. Ginuwine will serenade us to sleep, and he will be accompanied by The Boston Philharmonic.
Donnatella Versace will use some of the sheets donated by Martha Stewart and design a one-of-a-kind sleeping bag large enough to accomodate myself and my 4 sons as we slumber in style in the middle of Strawberry Field, which Yoko Ono and the ghost of John Lennon regularly frequent.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9933
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My next question: Has anybody called those numbers supplied by Nafola? If so, what were they told? Come on kola supporters. I'm issuing a special challenge to kola defender chrishayden to contact the people kola supplied phone numbers for and let us know he was told about the event. I'm really surprised "enchanted" hasn't done this. Or Renata or Brown Beauty or ABM. |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1032
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I already toll you I called the centr an they told me that kola boofs event took place sunday and was at 4 pm In fact I told you two of my friends in ny went to the event whcih they did an they said kola looked great sang beautiful an gave a strong reading why dont you call the center yourself Nafola listed all the peeople who actually run the Shomcburg you could call yourself |
Cynique
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Post Number: 9938
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You don't count, "enchola". Why do you keep forgetting you are a sock puppet? |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 5793
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That's some good stuff U.S. I was thinking OMG - Ginuwine took her and her kids to the Tavern on the Green OMG! LOLs
Cyn - I'm not that interested in the matter to telephone a venue and question them as to why a function which they weren't even sponsoring wasn't on their website.
Kola posted the following:
Now, New York City will get a rare chance to see one of America's most important new literary authors at a book reading at the prestigious Schomburg Center in Harlem on Sunday, September 16 at 4 pm in the Schomburg's Langston Hughes Auditorium.
Any reasonable person would interpret that to mean it was being held (and sponsored) at the Schomburg. But now we learn that some "outside" group merely rented the venue. Why didn't she simply state that in the first place?
Liar.
If Kola rented a suite at the Trump Tower she'd probably tell everyone that she received a personal invitation from The Donald, he picked her up in his private jet, helicopter and limo, and that he fed her caviar while her crusty ass was taking a bath.
She's so desperate and lame.
Loser.
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Dahomeyahosi
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Username: Dahomeyahosi
Post Number: 289
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You guys have way too much time on your hands. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5807
Registered: 01-2006
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Well Dahomess - Next time you date/marry outside the race, why don't you get yourself a man with some money, and then you too can have too much time on your hands. In the meanwhile, don't you worry about what the rest of us are doing. K.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9945
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Bwhahahahah. This from somebody who doesn't have her wits about her enough to go to Kola's thing and then not identify herself as her boardie buddy from Thumper's Corner. Put a sock in it, Dahomegirl. |
Dahomeyahosi
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Post Number: 290
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Mzuri you know nothing about how much money we make. Your childish assumptions are not entertaining. And I'm not worried about you. I don't care enough about you to be sad for you. Your behavior would be scary if I were Kola because it's clear that she is in your head every day. Once you let someone in your head it's up to them to leave. |
Dahomeyahosi
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Post Number: 291
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Cynique, I should've addressed you in my post to Mzuri above because it's clear that it also applies. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9960
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 05:28 pm: |
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Save your "addresses" for your envelope, Dahomegirl. BTW, just what was kola wearing? A turquoise gown or a crocodile dundee teddee. Or were you too dazzled by her yodeling to notice??? LMAO. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 5813
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And DahoB!tch - You don't know shit about how much time I (or anyone else here) have on my hands. So fukc you too. And no, Kola is not in my head at all, the topic only arises when I'm posting here. Thank you.
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Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1043
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Mizurable please you r obsessed with kola dirty drawls literaly an you hate her for two reason one she can write two your not black an she called it HAHAHA! |
Moonsigns
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Post Number: 2008
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Urban_scribe -- lovin' your style!!!! |
Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 288
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Urban_scribe,
Your hateful exaggerations continue to stink.
The following are original book titles created by Kola Boof:
"The One You Meet Everywhere" (referring to God)
"Virgins In the Beehive"
"The Sexy Part of the Bible"
"Nile River Woman"
"The Swallowers"
Ms. Boof's use of "silent film titles" from the 1920's for "Flesh and the Devil" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" is little different than Toni Morrison taking the name "Pecola Breedlove" from the film "Imitation of Life" and re-inventing the character as a little blue black girl in "The Bluest Eye".
You claim that Ms. Boof doesn't have a real publisher, yet she's been internationally acclaimed by such literary figures as Chinua Achebe, Chinweizu, Derrick Bell, The New York Times, Dave Eggers, Stephen Elliott and countless others, all who claim she's a "gifted writer".
She's been published in HARPER'S MAGAZINE, OTTAR (Sweden), AFRICAN WRITING (Uk-Berlin) and BLACK BOOK.
Kam Williams chose her autobiography "Diary of a Lost Girl" as the Best Book of 2006.
What I find specious, is that as a business person, you allow your "personal loathing" to cloud your public claims about Ms. Boof's accomplishments as a literary author and figure.
Most writers are just beginning their careers at 40--not signing contracts to write for Paramount Pictures and being asked to speak at JENA 6, as Ms. Boof did this past week.
Imagine how the people who've actually read powerful works like "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin" and "Flesh and the Devil" and don't know Kola Boof from this board are likely to regard your emotional outbursts in lieu of the talented, ethereal and beautiful Kola Boof they meet in person.
You yourself are one of those crabs in a barrel.
You talk about what authors should be doing to help one another, yet you failed to mention all the "fellow black authors" that Kola Boof has gotten published (the list is now up to 10), you (and some others) also fail to mention that with all your connections and comfortable positions at these huge corporate publishing houses--you haven't accomplished one tenth of the success that Ms. Boof has on one of the smallest presses in the country.
You don't have a single black author as talked about or as talented as Ms. Boof at your publishing house and you yourself lack Ms. Boof's personal glamour, creativity, energy and all around ability to fascinate others.
You fail to notice that for every person who hates Kola Boof, there are two others who love her.
One thing I have noticed is that each year, Kola miraculously gets bigger and bigger. Despite the announcements by black women in publishing like yourself--Boof tenaciously grows her audience and continues to rack up awards, press coverage and accolades. One moment the former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is featuring Kola on his website and calling her one of the 10 women in the world he admires most, and the next she is increasing her name recognition by appearing on MSNBC and CNN (both presenting her as "Bin Laden's Former Mistress"---NOT his "alleged" former mistress, but as "Bin Laden's Former Mistress") and being fired from a classic daytime soap, all the while adding to her ever growing stable of fans.
Funny enough, the people at the Schomburg Center fell in love with Ms. Boof--in fact, it seems that everyone's who's actually met her takes a liking to her.
Yet you keep foreseeing such doom and gloom for the little "gorilla nobody" who continually bounces back each year---that's for 8 years now btw.
Which means that you're not a very savvy or smart business woman.
My parting comment is a factual one.
Kola Boof has turned down books deals at Simon and Shuster, Random House and other corporate publishers because she simply gets a bigger cut of the pie at Door of Kush where her contract recognizes her an Editor/Author/Part Owner of Door of Kush. Ms. Boof is also a member of the Writer's Guild of America and makes more money writing a single script than "corporate publishers" are willing to pay for an advance.
Why would Kola sell "Virgins In the Beehive" to Simon & Shuster for a $5,000 advance and no publicity push when she can make $25,000 as co-owner of the book at Door of Kush and have unlimited publicity attention as the label's star?
Personally, I think it's pretty stupid of far less talented writers than Kola Boof to keep saying that she'll never be anything and all the other hateful, dishonest lies and distortions that are manufactured about her.
Eventually, someone "smart" with a good business sense will realize that they can utilize and make a fortune off Kola rather than sit around spinning crab stories about her.
In the meantime, she's being PAID to write an all-white horror film for Paramount Pictures called "The Midnight Taxi" (her title  )--which just goes to show that a good writer...is a good writer, and really, that's all that matters when it comes to good business sense.
Black haters in New York can sit around and talk "crab shit" all they want.
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Urban_scribe
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Post Number: 525
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There you go again. Let's see here:
Toni Morrison
Kam Williams
Diary of a Lost Girl
Flesh and the Devil
Imitation of Life
Chinua Achebe
Chinweizu
Derrick Bell
Dave Eggers
Stephen Elliott
The New York Times
Harper's
Paramount Pictures
Simon & Schuster
Random House
Bin Laden
MSNBC
CNN
Jena 6
The Schomburg Center
All in one post. But I'm exaggerating...
So, the truth finally comes out that Kola is part owner of Door of Kush. That says it all.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5819
Registered: 01-2006
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Huh???
"glamour, creativity, energy and all around ability to fascinate others"
"talented, ethereal and beautiful"
Right Kola, we're all real fascinated by your antics.
Kola, you're so dumb you don't even know that telling someone that they're gifted is a put down. People tell you that shit because you're the sort of low class hanger-on who fishes and begs for compliments.
Kam gave you a good review after you threatened him.
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/23046/19960.html
You also don't know the meaning of success because it sure ain't coming on a forum and bragging about every minor achievement, starting arguments about dumb shit, threatening lawsuits that have no merit, and starting lame threads devoted to the topic of Kola.
Why don't you try growing up???
Something stinks???
That would be YOU, Kola Boof.
You need to keep your phoney ass Nafisa character in check and don't have her making any racial slurs such as calling people "gorilla nobodies" Okay.
That's what YOU need to do.
Get your weak ass shit straight and try to keep it real!!!
Now go sit your tired crusty ass down somewhere and stop blowing your own horn.
And BTW, on your JENA 6 speeches, please post your pix.
Start a thread about that.
Thank you.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9978
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 12:58 pm: |
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The reason it's so obvious that kola and nafisa and enchanted are all the same person is because of all the praise that nafisa and enchanted heap on kola. This is a dead giveaway and the typical behavior of an attention-starved, self-absorbed egomanic. So pitiful. snicker. |
Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1044
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 02:03 pm: |
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I dont ever praise kola what I do is point out how stupid you look cynique obsessing over the woman an yes you, Urban_scribe an Mizurable do make people sympathise with kola because say what you will shes one of the few I see in the media who has something to say for blak women an my friends who went to the shomburg literaly cussed me out when I tried to tell kolas antics on this board so you need to get your marbles straight To me Urban_scribe is just jealous of kolas marketing ability because kolas madness is working
an dont think people dont notice that all the ones ganging up on kola are very fair complected women hmmmmmmmm |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1045
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Urban kolas been told us she owns Door of Kush over a year ago what I want to know because I have lots of friends who do PR what I want you to explain is why there is a problem with Nafola naming all those people? because in context they all did exactly what she said they did an I thought Nafola did exactly what a good PR does which is make there client look successful so since you say kolas nobody with no publisher an all those other people say shes a great writer with talent why cant they print that? I think Nafolas post made mroe since then yours an your just posting sour grapes |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1046
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lol! Mizurable keeps evry photo of kola boof on file she keeps a link to everything kola boof says on file but shes not obsessed an Urban_scribe an cynique are her friends? lmao! If you hve to do all that Mizurable then its obvious kola has P-O-W-E-R |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5820
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 02:35 pm: |
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Discombobulated - Your brainless ass probably thinks that Kola looks glamorous in the pic that I posted, huh???
LOLs
I'm not obsessed at all, just trying to keep your trolly asses straight since all of y'all are too fargone and completely delusional. You're totally out of touch with "the reality" and you need to come on back down to Earth.
Kola your incessant namedropping is desperate and pathetic. If any of those people gave a rat's ass about you, they'd post about it themselves. Why don't you have them join into the conversation here and tell us in their own words how clingy needy sorry demented great you are.
Or better yet, why don't you post links to their imaginary quotes about your greatness.
Maybe someday your troll ass can start making "since" and stop sounding like a broken record.
And teach your trolls how to spell please.
Dumb hooked on phonics motherfucker.
I'm still waiting on your pix of you marching/speaking in Jena.
Lying wench.
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Enchanted
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Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 1047
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Mizurable you are OBSESSED everyone here thinks so becauze none of US would keep file photos an invetory of every post someone makes so use all the ugly language thats in your ugly heart but you are a basket case over kola boof none of the rest o fus care like you cynique an Urban do |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5821
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 02:49 pm: |
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Discombobulated - I keep an image folder of many things because I post a lot of gifs here. And I keep a couple of pix of Kola, so what of it? The pix serve as an illustrated reality check for when you bozos claim that Kola is glamorous, well-dressed, and all the other inane nonsense that you spew.
If Kola doesn't want people re-posting her pix, then perhaps she shouldn't post them in the first place, since they are now in the public domain and can be used wherever by whomever.
This is the internet. Okay.
And if you really don't care then why don't you stop crawling your trolly ass out of the woodworks everytime anyone posts something against Kola.
BTW, I asked you before to name ONE REASON why anyone would be jealous or envious of Kola.
Can you name ONE REASON???
Doubt it.
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Enchanted
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Post Number: 1049
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You didnt just post about kola my name was dragged in it thats why Im here an why would kola not want you to re-post her pics? shes so vane she probly loves it an the reason your jealous of kola is because she dominates this board even when shes absent like chrishayden said people miss her when shes gone they respect her intelligense unlike yours shes a powerful personality people like you bosess over an a talented writer whose career is getting bigger by the day shes also liberal democrat an blak your jealous an everyone here knows it because you show your hand everyday Mizurable you are evil and hateful ugly woman to your heart. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5823
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 03:08 pm: |
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Nobody mentioned you or dragged your trolley ass name into anything. Get real.
I'm jealous because Kola dominates this board?
That's something to be jealous of?
When have I ever attempted to dominate this board?
Have I ever started a single thread about myself?
If so, please post the link.
Thank you.
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Libralind2
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Post Number: 915
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My goodness...Nasfia is a T R I P
LiLi |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1050
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this is why Im here this mornign QUOTE CYNIQUE: The reason it's so obvious that kola and nafisa and enchanted are all the same person is because of all the praise that nafisa and enchanted heap on kola. this lady couldnt be more birdbrained without her dementia problems shes been told more then a dozen times by the owner of this site Im not kola boof but if she doesnt agree with someone they bcome kola an yes you are so clearly jealous of kola Mizurable its what we all think an thats why most peeople here dont respon to your posts about kola which like every other day Urban-scribe posted some mess about kolas career an Nafisa Goma posted a superior rebutal then you all act like you understan English because your hateful jsut like the lady said Peeople on this board hav now seen an met Nafisa Goma at kolas event an Nafisa has made kola famous your all jealous an it stinks up the place {p.s.} you tried to dominate the board Mizurable but you dont have kolas talent or flair when she bit peeoples head off it was over serious issues not personal bad taste you on the other hand only show us bad taste an no vision cynique and urban like you because you hate kola end of story |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5824
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 03:22 pm: |
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STFU and answer my questions Discombolulated.
Produce a single thread that I posted about myself.
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Enchanted
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Post Number: 1051
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 03:26 pm: |
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NafisaGoma you killed urban_scribe's jealous mess when you rote an posted this:Urban_scribe,
Your hateful exaggerations continue to stink.
The following are original book titles created by Kola Boof:
"The One You Meet Everywhere" (referring to God)
"Virgins In the Beehive"
"The Sexy Part of the Bible"
"Nile River Woman"
"The Swallowers"
Ms. Boof's use of "silent film titles" from the 1920's for "Flesh and the Devil" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" is little different than Toni Morrison taking the name "Pecola Breedlove" from the film "Imitation of Life" and re-inventing the character as a little blue black girl in "The Bluest Eye".
You claim that Ms. Boof doesn't have a real publisher, yet she's been internationally acclaimed by such literary figures as Chinua Achebe, Chinweizu, Derrick Bell, The New York Times, Dave Eggers, Stephen Elliott and countless others, all who claim she's a "gifted writer".
She's been published in HARPER'S MAGAZINE, OTTAR (Sweden), AFRICAN WRITING (Uk-Berlin) and BLACK BOOK.
Kam Williams chose her autobiography "Diary of a Lost Girl" as the Best Book of 2006.
What I find specious, is that as a business person, you allow your "personal loathing" to cloud your public claims about Ms. Boof's accomplishments as a literary author and figure.
Most writers are just beginning their careers at 40--not signing contracts to write for Paramount Pictures and being asked to speak at JENA 6, as Ms. Boof did this past week.
Imagine how the people who've actually read powerful works like "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin" and "Flesh and the Devil" and don't know Kola Boof from this board are likely to regard your emotional outbursts in lieu of the talented, ethereal and beautiful Kola Boof they meet in person.
You yourself are one of those crabs in a barrel.
You talk about what authors should be doing to help one another, yet you failed to mention all the "fellow black authors" that Kola Boof has gotten published (the list is now up to 10), you (and some others) also fail to mention that with all your connections and comfortable positions at these huge corporate publishing houses--you haven't accomplished one tenth of the success that Ms. Boof has on one of the smallest presses in the country.
You don't have a single black author as talked about or as talented as Ms. Boof at your publishing house and you yourself lack Ms. Boof's personal glamour, creativity, energy and all around ability to fascinate others.
You fail to notice that for every person who hates Kola Boof, there are two others who love her.
One thing I have noticed is that each year, Kola miraculously gets bigger and bigger. Despite the announcements by black women in publishing like yourself--Boof tenaciously grows her audience and continues to rack up awards, press coverage and accolades. One moment the former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is featuring Kola on his website and calling her one of the 10 women in the world he admires most, and the next she is increasing her name recognition by appearing on MSNBC and CNN (both presenting her as "Bin Laden's Former Mistress"---NOT his "alleged" former mistress, but as "Bin Laden's Former Mistress") and being fired from a classic daytime soap, all the while adding to her ever growing stable of fans.
Funny enough, the people at the Schomburg Center fell in love with Ms. Boof--in fact, it seems that everyone's who's actually met her takes a liking to her.
Yet you keep foreseeing such doom and gloom for the little "gorilla nobody" who continually bounces back each year---that's for 8 years now btw.
Which means that you're not a very savvy or smart business woman.
My parting comment is a factual one.
Kola Boof has turned down books deals at Simon and Shuster, Random House and other corporate publishers because she simply gets a bigger cut of the pie at Door of Kush where her contract recognizes her an Editor/Author/Part Owner of Door of Kush. Ms. Boof is also a member of the Writer's Guild of America and makes more money writing a single script than "corporate publishers" are willing to pay for an advance.
Why would Kola sell "Virgins In the Beehive" to Simon & Shuster for a $5,000 advance and no publicity push when she can make $25,000 as co-owner of the book at Door of Kush and have unlimited publicity attention as the label's star?
Personally, I think it's pretty stupid of far less talented writers than Kola Boof to keep saying that she'll never be anything and all the other hateful, dishonest lies and distortions that are manufactured about her.
Eventually, someone "smart" with a good business sense will realize that they can utilize and make a fortune off Kola rather than sit around spinning crab stories about her.
In the meantime, she's being PAID to write an all-white horror film for Paramount Pictures called "The Midnight Taxi" (her title )--which just goes to show that a good writer...is a good writer, and really, that's all that matters when it comes to good business sense.
Black haters in New York can sit around and talk "crab shit" all they want.
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Enchanted
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clapping Nafisa Goma that was the best post on this board all week! |
Mzuri
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Nice diversion tactic; reposting someone else's posts.
Typical troll behavior.
And once again, nobody is jealous of Kola's pathetic bullshit.
Trust me.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9982
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Tell me this, "enchola". Who besides kola's sock puppets sympathizes with her? I issued a call for kola's fans to come forth and defend her integrity by calling the number supplied and report to kola's detractors what the Schomberg center said. None of the regulars on this board stepped up. And see how obsessed anybody would be should Nafola stop flooding the board with all of this drivel about herself. The only time kola gets discussed is when you take on your nafisa persona and subject everybody to your ego trips. The reason why you don't understand why you get the reactions you do, kolanut, is because you are mentally unbalanced. LMAO. |
Urban_scribe
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Enchanted, if you knew my name, you could Google me and you'll get over three pages of hits where I've been in the news (Arts and Literature, happenings in publishing), different industry affairs I've attended, guest speaker, sat on discussion panels, articles I've written about the industry - and guess what? I didn't need to post any of this - others posted it.
Others, as in other important figures in the publishing industry who also attended and/or participated in these affairs, events, panel discussions, etc; other important figures in the industry who know me have posted about me on their blogs, websites, forums, myspace, and press releases. AND they've got pictures of me at these gatherings, too. My picture is all over the damn Internet. Pictures that were taken by professional media photographers - not on no 5.99 disposable camera while sitting in my living room.
So when you/Kola/Nafisa/whoever foam at the mouth stating that urban scribe is jealous of Kola's success - all I can do is laugh.
Unlike Kola, I don't crave the spotlight. I don't feel it necessary to come on this forum, or any other, and constantly bombard people with a blow-by-blow account of the last time I took a shit.
The people who need to know who I am, know who I am.
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Nafisa_goma
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Urban, you say you're not jealous of Kola.
Then....why do you care HOW Kola Boof conducts the publicity for her books?
Why are 90% of your posts about or referring to Kola Boof?
Why were you so gung-ho to declare Kola's Schomburg Reading a "hoax", why were your initial posts about that event so "meanspirited" and what has Kola ever done to you or anyone else that you would wish so much bad luck and failure on her?
Why do you take Kola's "cultural heritage" as a personal affront to you?
Why do you despise her when she tells you the truth about what she thinks?
Why would you constantly discuss this "writer", but never ever refer to her actual writing, especially when so many esteemed people--even organizations that don't like Kola's personal image (The New York Times)--have acknowledged that she's a gifted writer, albeit with a "flamboyant" personality?
And lastly, Urban_scribe, why is there no place of honor for "eccentric, flamboyant" women?
Why do African American women have these hang-ups about sexuality and about other black women thinking an awful lot of themselves? Why do you not assassinate the "men" with the same double standard?
Going by your constant rhetoric, there would never be a Josephine Baker (the topless woman who took Paris by storm), there would never be a Zora Neal Hurston (who we've now come to discover "lied" about many details of her personal life, because she found the literary world "slow and boring"), there would never be a Grace Jones or a Condoleeza Rice.
I just find myself so baffled as to why you hate Kola Boof with such committment and passion.
To me, your strong feelings are proof of Kola's magic and denotes weakness in you.
Kola has never wished harm on any woman, even the white ones she criticizes so harshly, but I see the worst treachery I've ever encountered in women on this board.
You, Cynique and Mzuri are nowhere in Kola's league as a human being, let alone as woman.
You make that so clear.
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Mzuri
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Post Number: 5834
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Please Kola. Save me the time of digging up all your nasty, meanspirited and insulting posts that you have made against half the people here, and take back your LIES about how you've never wished any harm upon anyone. You've sat right there upon your stank nasty ass and wished diseases upon people, made threats against people and called them every name in the book, so don't play that meek and innocent bullshit now.
As far as questioning your motives; people have the right to question someone who professes to be a public figure and who consistently engages in false advertising tactics, tall tales, fabrication, exaggeration, and all the other dishonest ploys that you use to market yourself and your "work."
In case no one has told you this before, let me do the honors: your trampy trashy ass is no Josephine Baker and you're no Zora Neal Hurston either, so you really shouldn't try to compare your vulgar nudity and your chronic pathological lies to either one of those LADIES. You are no LADY, you are just a TRAMP.
You really should stop placing your sullied name into the same sentences as those distinguished personalities.
And with each of your fake Nafisa posts you keep slipping and sliding to reveal your true self. Since when does a white woman question the relationships between African American/Black women? That wouldn't be any of Nafisa's concern, would it???
But I must admit when you're right, you're right. U.S., Cynique and Mzuri are nowhere near your low-life existence as a human being. Once again, Kola, you're too stupid to realize that you are absolutely nothing to be proud (or jealous) of. You're pathetic and that's putting it mildly.
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Urban_scribe
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Post Number: 533
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Nafisa Goma wrote:
Urban, you say you're not jealous of Kola.
Then....why do you care HOW Kola Boof conducts the publicity for her books?
Because she lies. Can Kola/you promote her books and career by being honest, or is that too much of a reach?
Why are 90% of your posts about or referring to Kola Boof?
I have 532 posts on this forum (this makes 533) if 90% of them are about Kola, kindly post the 479 links and PROVE IT! Otherwise, STFU.
Why were you so gung-ho to declare Kola's Schomburg Reading a "hoax", why were your initial posts about that event so "meanspirited" and what has Kola ever done to you or anyone else that you would wish so much bad luck and failure on her?
Again, can you/Kola promote her work/career HONESTLY; without the lies, shenanigans, exaggerations, embellishments, and name-dropping?
I don't not wish Kola bad luck or failure. I'd just wish she'd tell the truth.
Why do you take Kola's "cultural heritage" as a personal affront to you?
Please explain what you mean by this. As far as I know, Kola's an African. I couldn't give a phuk less about Africans. Ask Kola's homegirl, Dahomeyahosi.
Why do you despise her when she tells you the truth about what she thinks?
I've stated before, Kola is entitled to her own opinions; however, Kola is NOT entitled to her own facts. So, don't blame me for calling her on her bullshit.
Why would you constantly discuss this "writer", but never ever refer to her actual writing, especially when so many esteemed people--even organizations that don't like Kola's personal image (The New York Times)--have acknowledged that she's a gifted writer, albeit with a "flamboyant" personality?
If Kola doesn't want to be discussed, you and she and all her other cronies ought to stop posting about her on public forums.
Thing is, Kola wants to be discussed. She NEEDS to be discussed.
Kola doesn't want to be challenged on her bullshit. Kola doesn't want to be exposed for the lies, half-truths, and exaggerations she tell/writes/posts.
But yes, Kola very much WANTS and NEEDS to be discussed.
And lastly, Urban_scribe, why is there no place of honor for "eccentric, flamboyant" women?
Why do African American women have these hang-ups about sexuality and about other black women thinking an awful lot of themselves? Why do you not assassinate the "men" with the same double standard?
I have nothing against sex or sexuality. I wouldn't have had 2 husbands, 4 children, and my share of lovers if I did.
I have nothing against flamboyance or eccentricity. I have a few flaming fags in my family whom I love to death.
I have nothing against ANYONE thinking highly of themselves. EVERYONE should.
But let's call a duck a duck: Kola bears her breasts to sell books. Plain and simple.
She doesn't do it to "liberate" women, to honor her ancestors, because she thinks highly of herself, because she loves "authentic" Black people, (especially considering Kola isn't one herself), or whatever other bullshit she's concocted. SHE DOES IT TO SELL BOOKS!
I've built my career and reputation in this industry on honesty, facts, and hard work. And, I've kept my clothes on in the process.
Kola should try it sometime.
Lastly, Nafisa, you are the sorriest, saddest "publicist" I've yet to encounter in this industry. Do you realize that the role of publicist is to promote and damage-control their clients' careers? As publicist, you're supposed to be adored, in many ways, even moreso than your client(s). You've done nothing but make enemies here. Not for the things you post regarding Kola and/or her career, but because you've PERSONALLY initiated and participated in catfights and name-calling.
Others (most) are here to shoot the breeze but, from day one, you've professed to be here in a professional capacity. If people dislike you, and they do, they're going to like your clients, whom you speak for and represent, even less. Too late, the damage is done. Looks like you'll need to call in YOUR publicist. LMMFAO
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9984
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I guess if Kola parrots how great she is and how everyone is jealous of her enough, she'll convince herself and a few lackeys that this is so. But if we deal with the commodity of truth, a foreign concept to Kola, her lame career does not measure up. People who have anything going for them don't have to constantly brag, and the reason that kola is so fixated on the jealousy idea is that she judges everybody by herself. I repeat, she is a mentally unbalanced pathological liar. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 9985
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And thank goodness I am not in a league with kolanut when it comes to being a human being. Scruples and integrity are not in her vocabularity or her mentality. |
Enchanted
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lmao with all said an done you hens are jealous of kola boof just as chris hayden said an so many others here hav said from Abm to Tonya to msyelf an we all know it that goes for urban_vibe cynique an Mizurable Nafisa sure called urban's wagon lol! |
Cynique
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Post Number: 9986
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Yes, a grand total of 4 of kola's lackeys felt sorry enough for the ol girl to try and take up for her by saying others envy her. They know she draws great comfort from believing that she has so much going for her that others are jealous of her great accomplishments - whatever they are, and of the looks that even she thinks require plastic surgery and of the fame that makes her so secure that she has to bombard this board with self praise. I don't think anybody around here would trade places with kola boof because most of the regulars here are comfortable in their skins and are not crippled by a need for the adulation of others. Jealousy is kola's crutch and without it as a rebuttal, she would have to face the truth about what a nobody she really is. I, myself, have no reason to be jealous of this sorry soul. There are so many others on this board who are really worthy of my admiration. I pity the fool because she has all of these people living inside her head and it must be uncomfortable for all of them to try and co-exist. Right, nafolanchanted? ROTFLOL. |
Zane
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You guys are hilarious. Never a dull moment and I cannot help but bite at this one. Nafisa, which imprint at Simon and Schuster, not Simon and Shuster, as you spelled it twice without the "C," offered Kola a $5K advance? Also, who is her development person at Paramount who hired her to write "The Midnight Taxi," which is a film title from 1920's? Being that I am a publisher at Simon and Schuster and have direct connections to Paramount, I am curious and this is a great opportunity to gain some credibility. I can verify both easily.
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Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 291
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Nice cursing and cheap dramatics Urban_scribe, but you're still not in Kola's league.
You're still less popular on this board than Kola Boof (apparently you're the only one who hasn't noticed how very un-popular Cynique and Mzuri are), and you're still an anonymous coward whose jealous of Ms. Boof and frankly isn't woman enough to walk in her shoes or knock her out of them.
You're desperate for people to share your views of Ms. Boof and you post lies and innuendos about her in the hopes that they will, but all you really do is drive up her WebSite Hits and ignite people's curiosity to where her back catalog sells a book.
We've had email from people telling us that you made them curious about Kola, so there is the there.
And the truth is, you didn't have the guts to bring your crass "green" self to see Kola Boof in person. She even invited you to bring friends and something in your illness warned you that you didn't have what it took to face down someone as genuine as Kola.
I won't be posting anything else to you, because frankly you're boring and unoriginal. Something you must know being such a brilliant editor, though your presence here proves you're little more than a runner.
What I will say in parting is that try as you might, you'll never be in Miss Kola Boof's league and all you'll ever be able to do is exactly what you've done here---TALK.
About her.
Keep in mind that she never talks or thinks about you.
You're insignificant and the friends that Kola's made are far more powerful than you are or will ever be.
Or as Ms. Boof instructed me to relate to you--and I DO post this with a lump in my throat, but Ms. Boof's instructed that I share with you:
"Urban_scab....your toxic yellow mutant mulatto snot-faced EGO has all but turned your brittle red bones brown...and yet you STILL haven't got enough ass to get on stage with MAMA!
When you get ready to whoop Kola Boof's ass...let me know!
You're nothing but a syphilis-brained Hudson River drinking blue veined pale faced Taco-Republican two cent ni66er bi-tch who got a window desk 'cause she's damned near white and secretly hates black people anyway. Nothing you say can hurt me or stop me. The day is coming...when I will grind your snotty little piss fleshed PEON self into the concrete sidewalks like the sorry CRACKER-shit Turd on a Platter you are.
Now keep fucking with Kola white bi-tch!
You and your Crabettes better get somewhere and suck Troy Johnson's kosher dick and whine to him about how you can't stand Kola Boof, because your HYPE is still just that---HYPE for Kola's name. But I will show your weak, lying New York Undercover ass what HUMILIATION really is---not one of you LYING two-faced motherrfuckkers knows me! Now that I don't like your ass, you'd be smart to keep it that way.
You need to be a real New YORKER and stop talking all that SHIT....that's what you need to do Cracker-CREE-HOLE cowardly ••••'n yankee bittch.
Email me your got-daymed name and address when you ready to stop talking shit: kolaboof_email@yahoo.com
NOBODY HAS TO KNOW BUT ME AND YOU, BI-TCH.
I don't talk shit. I back my shit up, ALWAYS HAVE.
I'm sure your cowardly New York train-rid'n ass knows all about D.C. girls.
Yeah bi-tch....EMAIL Kola Boof and stop talking all that SHIT.
All you fukck'n two-facd AALBC.COM COWS know where to find me-----ALWAYS HAVE.
The TRUTH IS Kola Boof and you KNOW that,
that's what you can't take---phoney ass jealous
"Urban Scab".
Now email Kola so we can really get together and make you an HONEST woman, coward-ass yellow
BI-TCH."
God.
Kola can be so tactless.
Well.
Tah-Tah, Urban_scribe.
We promise to get a chuckle everytime we think of you, and we know you'll definitely be thinking of us. What's that about "free rent" in someone's mind?
We thank you for all that room.
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Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 292
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Zane, Kola Boof has had several offers from Simon and Shuster over the years. Perhaps you'd better contact Tracy Sherrod and an editor named Leslie at Pocketbooks.
As for Kola's screenplay with Paramount, you'd have to email Kola directly for details about her situation.
I do believe Lisa Boykin is the V.P. of contracts at Paramount---is she not? She's also a very good friend of Kola Boof's.
I don't, however, think Ms. Boof is seeking YOUR VALIDATION or any credibility from you, but I'm also not surprised that you would jump into the fray.
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Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 293
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As well, I think the tone of your email, ZANE, pretty much sums up where you and Kola stand.
With a tear in her eyes, she asked me to relate that.
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Schakspir
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Anybody who really has pull with celebrities and the head honchos of the publishing/entertainment world does NOT need to go around endlessly namedropping. KB/Nafishy lives in a total fantasy world.... |
Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 294
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More from Kola....
Kola says that a few weeks ago she had dinner with the Director of "ALIEN VS. PREDATOR" (at his penthouse on Wilshire) and she told his gathering about a story idea she had for a scary movie and he suggested she write an all-white movie script to sell to some people at Paramount he knows.
Suyen Mosley, a filmmaker, distant relative of Walter Mosley and close friend of Kola's, was at that dinner. Suyen is the one who took Kola to the dinner and took Kola to a film festival.
Stephen Wyman, who is making a play about Kola Boof's childhood to debut at the Pasadena Playhouse next summer convinced Kola to go on and write a "treatment".
She wrote the treatment in three days and it was immediately accepted by Paramount. They commissioned her to write a script.
Kola Boof is a member of the WGA (she's registered under her "married" name for security reasons), and as I stated, The Vice President of Paramount's legal department, Lisa Boykin, is aware of Kola's deal.
Kola says she has no reason to lie about anything and finds it ludicrous that people who know nothing about her would entertain fantasies that she has to make these things up.
There has already been enormous success in Kola's career and that is well documented, and it was all achieved on one of the smallest publishers in the country which makes her successes that much more striking.
Kola Boof obviously headlined at the Schomburg Center last Sunday, and Ms. Boof's new friends---the people who run the Schomburg from the top down, have all allowed their phone numbers to be posted on this board to confirm that.
Certainly ZANE must know some of these people.
So did Professor and legendary author Derrick Bell post his email, and he was there.
Kola Boof, at the request of Al Sharpton's office, did fly to JENA, LA. and speak and march on Thursday and Friday.
Derrick Bell, who saw Kola Boof over the weekend, can verify that.
Ms. Boof is not in need of people who MOCK and LIE on her (and think they can do something to stop her career) feeding into the myriad lies that so many others have spread about her out of contempt for her work, views and the nature of her artistry.
Ms. Boof has reached out to every woman on this board--seeking friendship and sisterhood in the past---all have denied her.
Instead, a long standing feud and bitter animosity has ensued here for YEARS.
But she's had amazing obstacles in her life before now and overcome them---and she will continue to do so.
NO ONE...will get in her way.
Kola says that in the words of Cleopatra: "I won't need an army to conquer Cesar."
And I think Ms. Boof has already proven that.
For the record ZANE, quite a while back when we heard of your upcoming t.v. series for Cinemax, I told Kola that she should approach you as she's good at sexy stuff and is a t.v. writer (having done "Young and the Restless" and "Days of Our Lives") and Kola became really quiet and said that she suspects that you believe all the lies and horrible stories that people tell about her and that because she had always been a "Zane fan", it would hurt her too much if you snubbed or were unkind to her, so she didn't approach you about contributing to your t.v. show.
I think Kola is glad to know tonight that you're not her friend, Zane, and I think she's very glad to be aware of Diane Dorce's apparent betrayal and I think she's glad to finally accept that Troy Johnson is her enemy, because that all strengthens her in the struggle going forward and it also gives her all the more incentive to prevail.
You have no idea what Kola has been through in her life, and she says that none of you are made of what she's made of.
She says that history will bear her out.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5836
Registered: 01-2006
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Well Kola Spoof, the real nasty foul-mouthed dickbrained YOU has finally revealed herself.
Don't you feel so much better???
And as you sit there looking crazy with a lump in your adam-apple-ly throat and a tear in your wretched eye, your utter stupidity has once again been brought to light.
You're sitting up here bragging about a contract (that you supposedly turned down) but your clusterfucked editor's ass can't even spell Simon and Schuster correctly (yet another reason why nobody believes your LIES)
You've been busted once again for being a ree-tarded
FAKE
Because if you really got a contract/offer from them, and you really corresponded with them, then your fucktarded ass would know how to spell the CORPORATION'S name correctly.
And if you didn't need Zane's validation, then why don't you quit dropping the woman's name left and right every time you get a chance
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/11222/18663.html
There are other mentions of her but I don't have time to search thru posts right now.
First you're friends, now your not, make up your bipolar dyslexic fucktarded mind.
As if anyone in their right mind would want a LOSER like YOU as a FRIEND anyway.
You tired drama queen wy-n-ch!!!
You're the type of backstabbing friend that would try to fukc somebody's boyfriend/husband or steal money out of your girlfriend's purse you broke ass beotch.
Sorry mulatto mutant snot-faced pissant LY-ING whore!!!
Is it any wonder that everybody HATES KOLA???
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Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 295
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 - 01:42 am: |
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Mr. Schakspir---you don't know anybody, you don't have lunch or dinner with anybody---so you CAN'T "name drop".
If people can LIE on Kola, then she can darn well "name drop" in telling the truth.
What you hate is that the names can verify her truths.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5837
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 - 01:53 am: |
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Dumb Kola:
People with CLASS don't namedrop.
It's not done in POLITE society.
People with REAL credentials don't need to impress others with the names/titles of whom they play with.
It's only infantile, juvenile, immature LOSERS such as yourself who engage in that wearisome practice.
Because you have NOTHING else going for yourself.
Because you are nothing and NOBODY.
You are a LEECH and a USER who grasps at the COATTAILS of others who have achieved fame.
What is it about any of this that YOU cannot comprehend?
You sorry name-dropping mulatto mutant snot-faced pissant LY-ING WHORE!!!
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Urban_scribe
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Post Number: 535
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So, ONCE AGAIN, Kola/Nafisa is PROVEN a LIAR, a LEECH, and a NOBODY.
Even by someone whom she CLAIMED to be friends with, Zane.
Zane offered you a gift - a once in a lifetime opportunity to shut my big mouth and everyone else's. And what did you do? Act all high and mighty and tell her you didn't need her validation. Right!
Because you KNOW with one phone call, she could blow your whole shit out the water.
But I believe, Kola, even your most diehard supporters are beginning to see you for the PHONY NOBODY you are.
None of whom, I might point out, came to your rescue. Yet you're too wrapped up in yourself to see and realize that all those who once heralded you are now steadfastly distancing themselves from you because you're NOTHING.
I can't even call you a has-been, Kola. You're more like a never-was.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself for duping, scamming, and lying to all the people who wanted to believe you, believe in you, and support you.
But, no, you feel no shame because you don't have a conscience or morals or scruples or integrity or ethics or dignity. You're NOTHING.
You just made it that much harder for the next up-and-coming writer who comes to this forum to promote themselves and their work - WITHIN REASON - to be embraced and supported by the Black reading and writing community here.
For shame, Kola, for shame.
Lastly, why should I email you at that bogus email address when I have your PRIVATE email address?
Don't believe me? Just give me your PERMISSION - and I will post your PRIVATE email address on this forum.
I wouldn't do it without your permission. But if you're SO MUCH WOMAN and you REALLY want to go toe-to-toe with me, just give me the word and I'll post your, Kola Boof's, PRIVATE email address on this forum. I'm waiting...
Well looky here. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY for Kola to shut somebody's mouth. You're one lucky son-of-a-gun, Kola, to be catching all these breaks. You must have a horse shoe stuck up your ass.
Now let's see if you're going to come back to the forum all high and mighty again or if you're going to BE A WOMAN about it and bow out gracefully.
I keep telling you, Kola/Nafisa/whoever, I know who you are and what you're about. Yet, you've NO CLUE who I am.
Nafisa Goma wrote:
Nice cursing and cheap dramatics Urban_scribe, but you're still not in Kola's league.
I echo Madame Cynique - THANK GOD!
Why am I even talking to you? You don't exist, Nafisa. You're just one of Kola's many imaginary friends.
Now, Kola, about that email address...
Still LMMFAO.
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Zane
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Not sure how an email that started with "you guys are hilarious" can have a "tone" but I am verifying the information. I will be glad to report back on whether it is factual or not. No skin off my back and, like I said, it might help you gain some credibility. As for the comments about me "hating" on Kola, are you for real? You cannot be serious. One thing that I can verify is that I did send Kola a rejection letter for "The Sexy Part of the Bible" and for the portion of "Virgins in the Beehive" that was submitted to my imprint. Kola can write but the subject matter and storylines were all over the place and I did not feel the books were marketable. If rejecting her manuscripts like I do with roughly 99% of the ones submitted to me makes me a Kola hater, then so be it.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9990
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Nfasi wrote:
"I echo Madame Cynique - THANK GOD!"
Cynique replies: another example of the sneaky little distortions of facts that are Nafola's method of operation. I never said "thank God". I said thank "goodness". "Enchola" employed the same little trick in skewing the info about SisGal, calling her 2-faced in order to imply that SisGal did something which she didn't. If by now, anybody can't see thru kola boof then they are as crazy as she is.
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Schakspir
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Nafishy-Gomerpyle, I can namedrop if I want, but choose not to. Like Mzuri said, people with savoir-faire don't need to do that crap. I could say that I lunched with Paul Beatty a few months back (which I did), that, even though he was and is quite reclusive and normally doesn't talk with other authors, he was eager to get in touch with me, the author of Life of Death and Nate(which he was)--but I chose not to blurt out all that shit. In the cutthroat writing business, there are so many jealous assholes waiting to cut you down, so it's best to show discretion about certain things....even if you have to sell yourself like a whore often enough.
I can drop shitloads of other names(Al Freeman, Danny Glover, Haki Madhubtuti, Amiri Baraka, Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Mark Jacobson, Darius James, etc., etc.)but I'm not going to do that, thank you.
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Mzuri
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Post Number: 5838
Registered: 01-2006
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I've been on to Kola's Nafisa character since the first time she posted, as I'm sure you have Cynique. But Kola blew her Nafisa cover with her above rant
http://www.thumperscorner.com/cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=179&post=107737#POST107737
No way in hell would anybody post such garbage on behalf of someone else. Best friend, children's god mother, husband's other wife, I don't give a care how close your relationship is - nobody is that tight to make themselves look like a shitturd for somebody else except Kola and Kola.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 9995
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These alter egos of kolanut are so essential to her survival that she is, at this point, in denial about them being figments of her imagination. They are real people to her, cast members she has created as she makes the board privy to the scenarios that she either makes up or exaggerates about. Po thang. |
Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 296
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Attention Zane:
The tone of this message implies that you think Kola is lying about something (notice that you threw in "Midnight Taxi" being a 1920's silent film, though it wasn't a scary movie, and you made a comment about me spelling S&S with a "C"--are you aware that Whitney Houston's always had trouble spelling "Arista"). Instead of discreetly emailing Kola (where you would have gotten a lot more details about exactly who she's working with at Paramount)---you entered a very hostile feud that has been going on for years and you IMPLIED taking a side against Kola as you've arrogantly inserted yourself to be the arbiter of whether she's an honest person or not based upon what Tracy Sherrod or some other party will say about her claims of being offered a deal by S&S.
Just your flippant: "It might help your credibility" is insulting and places you on the side of the others who've been ganging up on Kola, but you don't even see that.
In the midst of Kola being ganged up on, This is what you wrote:
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I cannot help but bite at this one. Nafisa, which imprint at Simon and Schuster, not Simon and Shuster, as you spelled it twice without the "C," offered Kola a $5K advance? Also, who is her development person at Paramount who hired her to write "The Midnight Taxi," which is a film title from 1920's? Being that I am a publisher at Simon and Schuster and have direct connections to Paramount, I am curious and this is a great opportunity to gain some credibility. I can verify both easily.
Zane
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SIMON and SHUSTER
Tracy Sherrod agented Kola's "Diary of a Lost Girl" but it all fell through because Kola refused to have Osama Bin Laden's picture on the cover or back of the book----ASK TRACY SHERROD----and the editor at POCKET BOOKS (who wanted Kola's book for a "hardcover" POCKET original) ordered that the book be ONLY about Kola and Osama, and to not include the rest of Kola's life.
Kola LOVES Tracy Sherrod, but couldn't accept that.
There was, however, a "verbal" agreement already in place for QUITE A HUGE SUM OF MONEY, and because Kola dropped out--it wasn't good for Tracy.
This was followed by Kola moving to a different agent and being asked to write a "Whitney Houston-druggie type" Pop Novel for ATRIA BOOKS at S&S to be called "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", but they weren't willing to pay more than $5,000, and Kola didn't think it would help her "critically" to write a boutique novel.
There was also an offer made for PAPERBACK RIGHTS to "Flesh and the Devil" that Kola wasn't able to accept and that was also from Simon and Shuster's Pocket Books division.
That's three offers, ZANE, and Kola Boof has no reason to lie about that.
Friends
Kola Boof and Zane have "very infrequently" emailed each other for four years---Zane has previously invited Kola to her store opening launch and invited Kola to her birthday party at Zanzibar.
For these reasons, Kola thought of Zane as a "friend", and I can honestly testify that Kola has always really liked Zane.
Kola's mom, sisters and everyone around Kola support Zane's novels.
There was a documentary made about Kola (long before she ever met chatted) in which she revealed herself as a Zane fan and talked about how she appreciated Zane allowing black women to be sexual without guilt. That video's online at YOUTUBE.
Lots of people have accused Zane of being a "Typist"--not a real "Writer"---and yet Kola always defended Zane's writing and pointed out that Zane makes look "commercial writing" look easy, but that it's hard to do what Zane does and be so consistently successful.
I think Kola's right. Zane has her own special gift.
But this is my point about Kola publicly praising other black women's achievements and helping others to get published (Diane Dorce), and then miraculously seeing these same people either make negative comments about her or "assist others" in degrading Kola in some way.
Perhaps Zane since you wrote so much about why you rejected Kola's manuscripts on this message board--you could have had enough integrity to tell Kola those reasons, rather than just send a "cold" rejection notice with NO EXPLANATION whatsoever.
Do you see how that could be hurtful?
And the same thing I asked Urban_scribe, why?
What has Kola Boof ever done to you but affirm you in a positive way?
Is this just part of the "crabs in a barrel" thing that is described amongst African-American people where you try to trip each other up for
no apparent reason?
In this matter on this particular thread where YOU KNOW all these women hate Kola and want Kola's blood--why couldn't you have just emailed Kola and checked her out and THEN come forward if you found her to be making up stories?
I agree with Kola. You did it this way, because you yourself have unjustified ire towards Kola.
ZANE, I also think it will be VERY INTERESTING to see the reaction to "Virgins In the Beehive" and "The Sexy Part of the Bible" when they are released, because you have described them as "all over the place" and "not marketable".
Some other people---people whose "blurbs" you had right in front of you---have predicted that "The Sexy Part of the Bible" will be a contender for the National Book Award.
Of course, it's a very deep book with gratuitous social and political valuation, it's 100% literary--so maybe it isn't marketable by YOUR standards being that you're a commercial label, but STREBOR BOOKS could also use some "prestige" titles every now and then and there certainly is a lot of "critical support" for the manuscript by the type of people who vote on the National Book Award and such.
As a businesswoman, Kola thought you would figure that out from the "blurbs" from award winning White Authors like STEPHEN ELLIOTT and NOAM CHOMSKY(my god!).
Haha!
So I predict that Kola will be more than vindicated when those books are released and people get to actually read them.
DOOR OF KUSH is not publishing "The Sexy Part of the Bible", but we did aquire "Virgins In the Beehive" for $18,000, and if you don't believe me, you can just ask a woman named "Elizabeth" at TRIPLE CROWN BOOKS.
She certainly has no reason to lie about her new PAID project writing "The Midnight Taxi" for Paramount, and maybe if you were being ganged up on by people who hate/envy/despise you, then you'd understand how Kola feels that you've "indirectly" taken a side against her.
This woman gave a three hour reading at the Schomburg Center and these people are claiming it never took place!
It's funny how it's OK to lie on Kola, but you aren't exactly jumping to falter anyone else's credibility, I notice.
Nafisa Goma
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 5840
Registered: 01-2006
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Gee, Nafola-Ebola-Kola,
Perhaps Zane is jealous of you also.
Have you ever thought about that???
Yeah. She's probably jealous of the fact that she can't write "storylines that are all over the place."
LOLOLOLOLOLOLS!!!!!!
Hilarious!!!!!!
I'm ROLMMFAO at you Kola.
You are one funneeeeeee b!tch.
Oh and here's a newsflash for you do-do bird.
Zane doesn't need the support of you and your fam-ly.
Dumb ass!!!!!!!!!!
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Cynique
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Post Number: 10001
Registered: 01-2004
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I would like to ask you, nafola, why you think people "gang up" on you? Citing jealousy as the reason just doesn't explain it. Isn't it time for you to look inward and figure out why you provoke so much opposition? Does it occur to you that some people just have an aversion to lying manipulators and that what they are obsessed with is making an honest woman out of you. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 5843
Registered: 01-2006
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Ain't she dumb???
How can you gang up on a person who supposedly isn't even here?
Got damn Kola is one of the stupidest nutjobs that I've ever encountered in my life.
I'm done.
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Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 297
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For readers,
The first chapter of "Virgins In the Beehive"
http://kolaperfume.5u.com/whats_new.html
A street lit-Hollwyood novel that I predict
is going to be an AMAZING HIT for Kola Boof.
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Jmho
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Post Number: 276
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Nafisa_goma, I've finally got a chance to read most of what's been said over the past few days. And, I am of two minds. One, you must be grossly underpaid, to spend so much time, on one so-called client, especially if you have others. Admittedly, I doubt it.
Yet, on the other, I think you should have been fired long ago, with the representation, you've presented on this board, on behalf of your so-called client. As someone else stated, I find it very hard to believe that you are a professional publicist. Most of what you have posted is very unprofessional, to say the least. You may be wining or gaining some 'fans' or readers, but you are definitely losing some, too.
With as many famous folks you and your so-called client claim to know, then something is terribly amiss, if you have to come to this board and 'promote' for free as you do. No thread, in which you post, goes without a mention of all of your so-called client's books -- several times.
And, that refrain that folks are jealous, got tired a couple of years ago, when you so-called client was beating that drum. If that's the only reason why you think people think or feel, as they do, about your so-called client, you are as delusional as your so-called client is. |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1058
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Nafola I loved the last post to zane very good detials an I honesly never liked kola boofs race mess an using black women to get rich on but shes not the problem on this board cynique an Mizurable are the reason all the posters left wheneer kola comes back you notice all the posters come back an these ladies around here are jealous of kola and they do lie on her lef an right shes not the witch they make her out to be |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1059
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Noam chomsky an Stephen Ellioot praised a book that kola wrote and zane turned it down? wow! your a big shot for real zane lol! but I do guess that type writing wont fit with your companys sex books |
Cynique
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Post Number: 10004
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LMAO.The words of a desperate woman. All the posters who have come back, have done so to expose the lies dispensed by kola boof. The only ones who have defended you are your alternate personalities, "nafolanchanted". You really need to get back in therapy. You're pitiful. |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 1061
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none of the posters hav come back so what ar you talking about? I said when "kola" comes back they come back but righ tnow Abm, latina_wi, brownbeauty, renata, roxie, tonya, american sister, grind an a dozne more where are they? they left because of you an Mizurable an they only surface when kola surfaces kola boof has not been here other then messages by Nafola |
Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 298
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Everyone on this board from Troy Johnson to Renata to Cynique and countless others have emailed Kola Boof at SEVERAL email addresses, but one of the most used is her "Fan Mail" address:
kolaboof_email@yahoo.com
That is not a bogus email address, and she certainly would LOVE for Miss Urban_scribe to email her at her private email address.
Either way, I don't think Miss Urban_scribe has the guts to unveil herself to Kola Boof.
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Zane
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Post Number: 52
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Umm, if you mean that Kola is on my email list and received an invite to my birthday party and bookstore opening like the tons of other people, then yes, she was invited but never via personal invitation. As for the rest, people know nonsense when they read it and there is not a need for me to comment. I learned long ago that trying to have a conversation with someone completely delusional is a waste of time. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 10005
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Give it up, nafolanchment. Nothing you say makes sense. Who, besides you, misses the people you named. These wimps apparently couldn't stand the heat, so they got out of the kitchen. And the reason certain ones only surface when kola surfaces, is because they are her sock puppets. American Sister was never that big a big fan of kola's and she still checks in from time to time whether kola is posting or not. ABM has also posted without kola being on board. Roxy left loooong before Mzuri even came on the scene. So you, nafolanchment, are delusional as usual. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 10006
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The last time I responded to an e-mail from kola boof was over 5 years ago and even then I had a feeling she was shady. And don't come up with some e-mails you have cut and pasted trying to prove I wrote to you calling you "sis" and thanking you for some nonexistent favor you supposedly did for me, Nafola. You and your devious self tried that ruse before. |
Libralind2
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Hey Nasfia..Bill Cosby bumped my knee at the Douglas-Holyfield fight in 1993..or was that 92/94..whenever..it happened ::blank stare:: holding a glass of wine
LiLi..droppin a little sometin sometin |
Urban_scribe
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Nafisa, I just finished reading the first chapter of Kola's latest novel. I won't give my opinion of the work because I already know unless I give Kola's work a glowing review, I'll be called "jealous" of Kola. So, I'm going to stick strictly to the facts.
The chapter excerpt was obviously laid out by an amateur using a word processing program rather than desktop publishing software. That's not an opinion, that's a fact. Here's why:
1 - Why is the opening chapter page 15? It's unnumbered, as it should be, but the following page (second page) is numbered 16, so it stands to reason that the first page is 15, had it been numbered.
The reason this is poor formatting is because the book block has not been separated from the front matter.
2 - Why are there (--) in the formatted book block rather than a solid emdash?
3 - Why are there straight quotes rather than curly quotes. In a formatted book block, opening quotes are supposed to look like little sixes; closing quotes are supposed to look like little nines.
The single quotes are also straight when they should be curly.
4 - Why are there widows in the formatted book block?
5 - Why are there several commas outside of closing quotes?
6 - Why are there three dots (...) rather than true ellipsis points? True ellipsis points are a single character. Three dots are three separate characters, and the spacing between true ellipsis points and three separate dots is different.
I just gave you a few free professional formatting tips. With these tips, if you know your way around a word processing program, you can produce a decent page layout. That way you won't have to invest in expensive desktop publishing software, which costs in the thousands. Of course, word processing software doesn't produce the high quality results of desktop publishing software, but you won't have the abundance of typesetting issues currently present in this poorly formatted page layout, which look sloppy and unprofessional in a published book.
That's my advice. Take it or leave it.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 10009
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Well, I just read the chapters, and I must say, I'm shocked. Some people have raved about kola's writing skills and I expected to be blown away. Not. The style was rather amateurish and redundant and the metaphors banal. Or does the shock value of obscene dialogue make up for the overwrought sentences that slow down the action. But maybe it will appeal to the readers who are her target audience and my opinion is what it is; an opinion. Seriously, it wasn't terrible, but I just expected better. I guess I've been spoiled by the good books I've been reading lately. Now, play the "jealousy" card. yawn. |
A_womon
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Yes not terrible, but Kola should learn the difference between "sexy sex" and "obscene, borderline pornography sex" And I didn't feel the "I have to read the rest" that a good book exerpt will generally leave me feeling. I agree with Zane that it was a bit rambling. Needs some professional editing. Hire a real editor. |
Brownbeauty123
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Whatever, Cynique, these "wimps" left probably because there really isn't much to talk about around here anymore. There are only a handful of posters who occassionally contribute a thought or two, which have overall caused things to slow down and get dull around here. |
Zane
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Post Number: 54
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For the record, I do know Tracy Sherrod well because she did acquire my books for Simon and Schuster while she was there as an acquisitions editor. I also publish one of her current clients, now that she is a literary agent. I did reach out to Tracy and she made it very clear that:
A) She had never even heard of Kola Boof while she was at Simon and Schuster, rather less offered her a deal for publication, which Kola supposedly turned down according to Nafisa/Kola and,
B) She was contacted by Kola since she became an agent but rejected her as a client and has never represented any of her work because it was unimpressive.
So, Nafisa/Kola, explain that and call me a liar and say that I never contacted Tracy. Also keep saying that ATRIA Books, which I run a division of by the way, offered you a deal. You are simply setting yourself up.
As for Paramount, I am still waiting to hear back from one of the Vice Presidents that I know very well.
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Yvettep
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I could have sworn I read earlier this morning on this thread an email that Zane received ...
Brownbeauty, you should post something, then. Folks' lives get busy, and some of the posters who were more prolific about putting articles up for discussion haven't been around lately. But anyone, of course, is free to post whatever and hope others join in for discussion.
Hmm. Think I'll do just that right now. LOL |
Yvettep
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Oh! There it is. Never mind! |
Brownbeauty123
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You're right, Yvette. I should make an effort to post more articles and discussions around here, too. LOL Might help bring back some old posters. |
Nafisa_goma
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Post Number: 299
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Zane you and Tracy Sherrod are both full of shit and you know it.
But that's fine. The truth really will come out on this one, because Kola can prove that Tracy agented her book to Leslie at POCKET.
You're the lowest sorriest women on earth, I tell you that, and Kola will have the last word on this.
Under-estimate her if you want.
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Kola_boof
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Post Number: 4784
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Zane,
This is Kola Boof.
I don't know HOW you posed your questions to Tracy, but either she misunderstood you, she's a liar or you both are.
First of all, I never approached Tracy Sherrod while she was an EDITOR at Simon and Shuster.
Tracy agented my autobiography while a woman named LESLIE was Editor at Pocket Hardcover division in 2002.
Once again, it was Derrick Bell who sent me to
Tracy--I guess she forgot that small matter, and I'll be letting him know about this swiftly.
LET TRACY KNOW THAT.
I'm not surprised, however, that all these years
later.....after I backed out of the deal and she failed to get the advance that was all but locked up...she would try to be so dishonest about the situation.
Not only did Tracy agent "Diary", but she EDITED the damned book!
DID SHE FORGET THAT THERE ARE OTHERS (ie. Derrick Bell and "Kathleen") WHO CAN VOUCH FOR THAT?
What a lying two-faced person she is.
And you weren't running a division at Simon and Shuster when I was involved with ATRIA BOOKS, Zane. You were only distributed by Simon and Shuster.
I even wrote you an email back then (2002) asking you for a "blurb" for my book that I was in negotiations to do at ATRIA!
Well...savor your bullshit lies for the moment, Zane, because you're in for some big stunners about this "unimpressive writer" that you all just hope so desperately isn't going to make it.
Even if I had lied about everything I ever stated on this board....I will still end up a bigger more powerful force in this industry than you are now...and you can bank on that.
Talk all the shit you want, but...my friends are
bigger and more powerful than yours.
And rotten bitches like you will be finding that out in due time.
Whatever other bullshit you post about me--I won't be back to read or comment on it, Zane, but you BEST BELIEVE that from this day forward you'll be hearing from me in ways that will make your fat head spin.
khaferi ahn khafiatak
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Mzuri
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Kola
Spoof
Please
just
shut
your
desperate
pathetic
pathological
chronic
lying
ass
the
fukc
up
Thank
you
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Cynique
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What would kola do without accusations of jealousy and references to her God and Jesus DERRICK BELL to jack up her claims. What the hell can this man do to advance her cause??? |
Cynique
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You continue to assume that some of those who have discontinued posting here are so essential to the board that their presence is missed, Brownbeauty. Missed by whom? Tonya is the only one's whose absence created a void because she would always post interesting articles. But she mentioned that the reason she would be cutting back on her time here was because she was about to become involved in a project. |
Tonya
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Please don't put words in my mouth. Thanks. |
Cynique
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Are you not involved in a special project that you have been looking forward to for quite some time, Tonya? And surely you were not so spineless as to let other people drive you away from the board. So, how did you see happen to see my post? |
Zane
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Kola,
Whatever to the comments but I do have one question. Did you just publicly threaten me?
Zane |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Urban_scribe,
We await your apology.
In the meantime, HOWARD DODSON, "your friend"--the director of the Schomburg Center has been made aware of your "claims" and can be reached at 212-491-2208.
As Ms. Boof had lunch with Derrick Bell this afternoon, she learned that Dr. Bell and Howard Dodson have been friends for over twenty years and Derrick Bell, who was at Ms. Boof's event with his wife..................."
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Schakspir
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Does anyone need anymore evidence to be convinced that Kola Boof is an absolute nutjob? |
Schakspir
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BTW, if Tracy Sherrod had actually edited that piece of shit "Diary of a Lost Girl," it was either 1) in Kola's dreams 2) to get the book sounding even half-way coherent, to chop out most of the rants, false accusations and screams, which made up about 95% of the original manuscript. That manuscript was about 5,000 pages long. |
Schakspir
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TO REITERATE....
Sudan and the Kola Boof Hoax: "Slavery" Propaganda Exposed
by David Hoile/ESPAC
The Sudanese civil war has generated a vast amount of propaganda and disinformation. The intervention in Sudan by foreign powers, especially the United States, and by civil groups with partisan religious and political motivations, has exacerbated and prolonged a tragic conflict by the deliberate and cynical manufacture of blatantly manufactured distortions, lies and hoaxes.
A recent and archetypal example of this process was the manipulation of the image of Sudan for personal and propaganda purposes in the campaign surrounding a woman calling herself Kola Boof. (1) The author of 'Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories of African Women', Ms Boof's "sudden" appearance on the Internet "several months ago" was noted by 'The New York Times' in December 2002. (2) Ms Boof came to prominence when she claimed that she had been made the subject of a Sudanese government fatwa issued by a Sudanese diplomat in London, Mr Jamal Ibrahim, and Dr Hasan Turabi, the former speaker of the Sudanese Parliament, allegedly sentencing her to death for being opposed to the Khartoum government and blaspheming Islam. Ms Boof claimed that she had been sentenced to be beheaded. These claims were carried by several media outlets. (3) She claimed that the fatwa had been issued in September 2002 by the Sudanese government, and that this had been conveyed to her by the SPLA, who in turn claimed to have had it confirmed by a Mr Tanzim Wasti, Mr Ibrahim's secretary and by Islamist activist Sheikh Omar Bakri.
On the basis of these and other previous claims Ms Boof quickly emerged as a darling of the anti-Sudan campaign, and was embraced by activists such as Joe Madison and Maria Sliwa of "FreeWorldNow". (4) The 'New York Times' revealed how impressionable members of African-American society came forward to help her campaign because of having read her claims as publicised on the Internet. Demonstrations were held in her name. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWD), for example, arranged simultaneous demonstrations in New York city, Los Angeles and Washington-DC on 7 November 2002 to "protest" the "Sept. 26th death sentence from Sudan ordering that Black womanist writer Kola Boof is to be beheaded". The AWID protest literature spoke of "our beloved Queen Kola". (5)
Building on her anti-Khartoum theme, Ms Boof also stated in interviews for example: "I am a political activist, a soldier in Dr. John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army". (6) It subsequently emerged that she had made a number of other interesting claims. She claimed, for example, that she was the daughter of an Egyptian archaeologist and a Somalian princess, and that she had lived in Omdurman, Sudan, until she was 10 or 11, in 1978. Ms Boof claimed that in 1978 "my parents...were murdered for speaking up against slavery and the brutish Islamic government of Sudan". (7) She claimed that "murahleen" tribesmen had killed them in front of her. She claims that her Egyptian grandmother then put her up for adoption and that through UNICEF she travelled to London and was taken in by an Ethiopian family who eventually gave her up because, she said, they thought she might be a witch. She says she was then adopted by a black family in Washington-DC in 1980. (8)
Ms Boof also claimed that the Sudan People's Liberation Army was in existence as early as 1977, and that as a little girl she had attended SPLA meetings.
The Mundane Truth
Every one of these claims unravelled under examination. The facts were far less interesting. Mr Jamal Ibrahim, the deputy chief of mission at the Sudanese embassy in Britain, wrote an article critical of Ms Boof and claims that she had previously made, an article published in 'Al- Sharq Al-Awsat' in September 2002. In this article he criticised her "falsehood and dishonesty" in previous claims. Ms Boof subsequently claimed that this article was in fact a fatwa, inaccurately stating that fatwa is "a contract for assassination". (9)
Unlike Ms Boof, 'The New York Times' took the trouble to confirm the claims made to her by the SPLA in London. The newspaper spoke to Sheikh Omar Bakri, a senior judge of the Islamic sharia court in London, and someone noted for his forthright views. Ms Boof claimed that Bakri had been party to the fatwa. He stated that "nobody issued a fatwa against Kola Boof". (10) The Islamic judge went on to state: "I know she was criticized by a Muslim official in London, but he isn't in a position to issue a fatwa." This was confirmed by Mr Ibrahim himself, who said the claim was "bizarre and baseless" and that: "My own view is that she wants to make use of this to help her in selling her books. It is a bizarre exercise in public relations." (11) Mr Ibrahim did criticise Ms Boof in his article, and there would appear to be considerable grounds for legitimate criticism, but as 'The New York Times' observed "criticism isn't the same as a fatwa". It would appear that the SPLA in London deliberately misrepresented the issue.
Unraveling the Lies
Ms Boof's claims about her early life are similarly flawed. She alleged that murahleen tribesmen killed her parents in Omdurman. These horsemen are only found in southern Kordofan, several hundred miles away from Omdurman. It is the equivalent in American terms of being attacked in a Washington-DC suburb by a band of Oklahoma cattlemen. She also claimed that the SPLA were in existence in 1977. It is also a simple matter of record that the SPLA was founded only in late 1983. (12) Ms Boof's claim that her father was murdered in 1978 for speaking "up against...the brutish Islamic government of Sudan" similarly jars with reality. In 1978 Sudan was resolutely secular, governed by President Jaafar Nimeiri, a close American ally whose government was one of the largest recipients of international American economic and military assistance. The present Islamic government in Sudan only came to power in 1989.
Ms Boof made a number of other claims about herself. In August 2002, she claimed to have been shot at outside Los Angeles by Arab Muslim gunmen, and that she shot back. Boof further claimed to be under FBI protection. The 'New York Times' reported that the FBI "had no knowledge of Ms. Boof". (13)
Ms Boof was also said by 'The New York Times' to have "told flamboyant stories about her life in Egypt and Morocco, where, she said she was a B-movie actress and a high level prostitute, operating in luxury hotels..." It was during this time in Morocco that Ms Boof also claimed to have had an affair with Osama bin Laden in 1996. She elaborated on this alleged affair in a January 2003 statement when she claimed that it was a four month sexual relationship in Morocco. She had met bin Laden in a Senegalese restaurant "which was the only place in Marrakech where they knew how to cook lion's meat" (one of her "favorite" dishes). She claimed that she subsequently became "Osama's mistress" and that she had "lounged about in silk and diamonds". (14) One of the most watched men in the world, there is no record whatsoever of bin Laden being in Morocco in 1996.
Boof has also made other jarring claims, speaking, for example, about "rich Palestinians who have black women slaves working in their kitchens, their tongues cut out of their heads." (15)
Ms Boof's somewhat elaborate claims began to be actively challenged by the end of 2002. The 'New York Times' examined her allegations in some depth. (16) In an interview with the newspaper, Ms Boof admitted to being manipulative: "I can't deny that I'm a conniving person...I have to manipulate the system, and I don't mind if you publish that..." The newspaper discredited the fatwa claim. Ms Boof was dropped by her publisher at the end of 2002. And, despite having been warmly embraced and extensively publicised by the anti-Sudan lobby within the United States and elsewhere, Ms Boof's claims soon became even too outrageous for all but the diehard fringe. The SPLA has distanced itself from Ms Boof. The 'New York Times' reported that the SPLA "embraced her and then backed away, as Ms. Boof's personal, if not literary credentials have been called into question."
Deng Ajak, secretary-general of the anti-government Sudan Commission for Human Rights, stated that he was initially supportive of Ms Boof "but when she said in one of her own e-mails to me that she had a brief encounter of dating Osama bin Laden, I said to my colleagues that we need to pull the plug on this one". He stated that "This could be one of the most impressively spun and choreographed pieces of fiction that one could imagine". Nevertheless, Ms Boof claimed that "the Southern Blacks of my homeland" have accorded her the title of "Queen Kola". (17)
The 'New York Times' reported that Ms Silwa has also "distanced" herself from Kola Boof's claims, quoting her as stating: "I don't think it behooves our human rights interest to connect ourselves with someone who is inconsistent and can't prove her identity." (18) Joe Madison continues to publicise Ms Boof.
Conclusion
Ms Boof and her claims provide a clear example of how patently false and self-serving lies about Sudan have been accepted at face value and publicised by the anti-Sudan industry. She has sold more of her books as a result of these claims. Ms Boof has deliberately sought publicity, both personal and commercial on the basis of these assertions.
The pattern is a sad one. Outrageous claims are manufactured and disseminated widely. Eventually allegations are exposed as either exaggerated or utterly groundless, or collapse in the face of their own absurdity and self-contradictions. All but the most bigoted or partisan of their disseminators retreat into a discrete silence - but never have the honesty or integrity to admit their complicity in a hoax, or to publicise the falsity of their previous articles. The miasma of defamatory claims against Sudan is once again added to, and only a short time elapses before yet another hoax or lie is launched and credulously disseminated by a media that never seems to learn the lessons of its previous blunders.
Notes:
1. There appears to be some doubt as to her original name. On one of her websites, she says that her name is Naima Bint Harith ("The Woman is Dangerous: Biography of Kola Boof", at http://www.kolaboof.com/dangerous.htm). On another of her websites, she gives her name as "Naima Alu Kolbookek "("Kola Boof", at http://authors.aalbc.com/kola_boof.htm). In an interview with 'The New York Times' she states that her given name is Naima Bahri (Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002). In her 2003 book, 'Diary of a Lost Girl', Ms Boof says that she calls herself Kola Boof "in honour of Clara Bow and Betty Boop - I'm a silent movie buff, you see" (http://authors.aalbc.com/kola_boof.htm).
2. Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002.
3. See, for example, "'Anti-Islam' Books Spark Fatwa: Author Speaks Out Despite Warning From Bin Laden", News Article by World Daily Net, 9 November 2002. This article claimed that Sudanese diplomat Jamal Ibrahim had issued a fatwa calling for her to be beheaded. It also claimed that Ms Boof was "under the protection of U.S. government agents". On 7 November 2002, CNSNews.com claimed in an article entitled "Islam, Religion of Peace: Sudan's Threat to Behead Author Sparks US Protests", that there was a "Sudanese government death warrant calling for the beheading of best-selling author Kola Boof", and that this had prompted anti-Sudanese demonstrations in Washington, New York and Los Angeles. An article in 'The Washington Times' claimed that Ms Boof was "sentenced to death for denouncing the oppression of women under Islamic law and the enslavement of non-Muslim black Africans in Sudan" ("Eminem's Raunchy Rap", 'The Washington Times', 15 November 2002). The 'Village Voice' has also echoed her claims stating, for example, that "Prominent Sudanese writer Kola Boof has recently taken refuge in the US after death threats in Sudan, "Taslima Nassrin Speaks (Still)", 'The Village Voice' (New York), 13-19 November 2002. The Russian newspaper, 'Pravda' also repeated Ms Boof's claims ("Kola Boof, Some Lady", 'Pravda', Moscow, 26 July 2002).
4. Madison, for example, provided Ms Boof with considerable coverage on his radio program, a program already noted for its anti- Sudanese propaganda.
5. "Kola Boof Fights Back!", Press Release by The Association for Women's Rights in Development, November 2002.
6. "Kola Boof Surrenders", Interview by Nathan Lewis, at http://www.nathanlewis.com/artist_of_month/Ko.../body_kola_surrenders-interview. htm
7. Ibid.
8. "'Anti-Islam' Books Spark Fatwa: Author Speaks Out Despite Warning From Bin Laden", News Article by World Daily Net, 9 November 2002.
9. The 'New York Times' correctly pointed out that far from being a murder contract, a fatwa "is a juristic opinion issued by a Muslim scholar to address a specific problem, that can be related to political, economic or social issues", ("Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002).
10. Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002.
11. Ibid.
12. See, for example, the 1983 SPLM Manifesto, published in 'Horn of Africa', Volume VIII, Number 1, New Jersey, 1985
13. Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002.
14. "Who's Afraid of Kola Boof?". Statement by Kola Boof, 3 January 2003, available at http://poetwomen.50megs.com/custom2.html
15. Ibid.
16. Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002.
17. "Statement by Kola Boof", 'North African Book Exchange', 11 December 2002.
18. Julie Salmon, "Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona", 'The New York Times', 11 December 2002. Ms Sliwa does, however, continue to publicise a number of similarly discredited claims about Sudan, including allegations of "slave redemption" still made by groups such as Christian Solidarity International. |
Cynique
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You better watch your back, Shakspir. Kola has powerful friends in high places, and she may add your name to her hit list right after Zane's. |
Mzuri
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I'm almost embarrassed by Kola's conduct towards Zane, especially after she dropped the woman's name here at least 1,000 times about what good friends they are and blah blah blah.
Kola Boof has lied about everything regarding her life and her relationships, she has ZERO credibility, and the publishing industry should take a second look at what she purports to be autobiographical since it's become obvious that she's
a) a chronic liar
and/or
b) mentally impaired to the point of being unable to discern fiction from reality
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A_womon
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Honestly, I feel sorry for Kola now. She really needs professional help. At first I thought she was making up these extravagent lies for publicity, just to drive people to her website and to sell more books. But when I realize that the fantasies that she invents she actually BELIEVES, well for me anyway, it takes the fun out of exposing the lies of someone who REALLY IS MENTALLY ILL.
I'm not being funny either. After reading the exerpt she posted, I can't understand why Kam Williams gave her book "Diary of A Lost Girl" best book of 2006. But maybe it's unfair of me to say that,since I've never read any of her books, because maybe she writes non-fiction better than she does fiction.
Can someone who has read any of her previous books tell me what made them the stuff that college professors would reccommend?
Kola I pray that you find someone who can help you. I really mean that. |
A_womon
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extravagant |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Can someone who has read any of her previous books tell me what made them the stuff that college professors would reccommend?"
Uhhhhhhh......A_womon, that's an excellent question. Let's see what the response will be......
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Brownbeauty123
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Cynique, I think that the posters who no longer contribute anymore are/were signficant. If they weren't, then things would't be such a drag around here. Others probably feel the same way but have chosen not to express it.
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Cynique
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Who are these significant people that kept the board from dragging, Brownbeauty? Certainly they contributed no more than folks like Yvette, Chrishayden, Mzuri, RobynMarie, a-womon, Emanuel, Nels, Urban_Scribe, NTFS, Shakspir, JMHO, Li-Li, Moonie, Doberman, Steve, Troy and Thumper? Do you really think great numbers of people came here to read Nafisa, Enchanted, Serenasailor, Latina_Wi, Misty, Dahomay, and Renata? One reason the board is going thru the doldrums is because things go in cycles. And, as was mentioned, some people were turned off by the profanity, the relentless references to colorism, and the intimidation of newbies. Ironically, the most compelling poster in a long time, was Igbogal and her reincarnated Yorubalady or whatever her name was. |
A_womon
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Thank you NT It would be interesting to hear from those who've read anything from Kola and get their feedback. |
Brownbeauty123
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Cynique, have you even given the "great numbers of people" a chance to speak for themselves? How exactly do you really know how others feel about particular posters? Please tell me. Because so far, all you have been doing is making presumptions on what others are thinking. And picking posters who are your favorites and labeling them more significant than others. |
Cynique
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And you are doing the same thing, Brownbeauty. How exactly do YOU know how others feel about particular posters? Who are your sources besides the small number of disgruntled people you named??? The posters I picked are all of the ones who continued to post after your "preferences" stopped posting. You implied that the defection of your buddies made an impact, but you don't know whether this is true or not because if you'd be honest you'd have to admit that the ones I named contributed just as much as the ones who left. How do you know whether or not the audience of lurkers decreased?? It's not who is doing the posting, it's what those who do post have to say. |
Abm
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A_womon,
I found Kola's Flesh and the Devil and Long Train to the Redeeming Sin to be wonderfully written books. Estreemly evocative, sensual, enthralling, poetic.
You don't just read Kola's writing. You see, hear, smell, taste and FEEL it.
And there is sense of wonder and granduer amongst Kola's work regarding what it means to be Black and African that can bring you to tears.
At least, that's been MY opinion and experience.
But I don't think it really matters what I think of her writing. Because most who've invested any time into knowing anything about her are probably going to feel and express opinions about her work that either reflect what they think and feel about her a very eccentric wowan and/or socio-political figure or others will assume such making any opinions about her writing fairly useless.
It's for you to decide which side of the fence you'll occupy.
Here's hoping, however, you might actually READ one of her books before your decide what to think of them (and, maybe, even of her). |
A_womon
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Yeah, abm but what about her attempt at fiction? I read what she posted and didn't feel at all what you just wrote. But again, there is a difference between the two and I'll say again maybe she's better writing non fiction. |
A_womon
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And I don't think anything of Kola personally. Except that based upon her posts on this board, and the stories she has fabricated in the media, I can't help but logically conclude that she is very unstable. |
Cynique
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Maybe you have to be on kola's wave length to appreciate her work. And some people have higher standards than others when it come to writing. Sometime you have to be a good writer yourself to recognize talent in others. |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Thank you NT....."
No problem!
"It would be interesting to hear from those who've read anything from Kola and get their feedback."
Me too. I think Urban_scribe posted an interesting technical analysis of the book. I'd like to see someone attempt to counter it. But after that blistering breakdown of inexcusable amaturistic publishing, I dunno.........
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A_womon
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Could be...could be not...who ta say? Now I done fixed that there mailbox and I can tell if it be messed wit and...uh ruh..my bad! Wrong story...HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! |
Abm
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A_womon,
I don't know which of Kola's fiction you're referring to. But if you're not feeling her writing, that's okay.
Diff'rent strokes... |
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