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Truthdays
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Username: Truthdays
Post Number: 22
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 03:24 pm: | 
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Everybody's talking about the guy on
Pacifica radio who said that a reporter
paid him to make up lies about author Kola
Boof. I'm surprised Nafisa Goma hasn't
posted anything about it.
There's an FBI probe now to investigate this
web of people who have been stalking her. It
seems lots of people are involved or took money
to pass around lies about her, but they put
her family's life in jeopardy and tried to
mess up her career due to political views.
They broke in her home, her car and video taped
her children.
I do remember the whole Peter Bergen thing,
but I was shocked to hear the crap author
Zane spread about Kola Boof. Like she didn't
have a reading at the Shomburg or something.
Why would Zane be trying to help people spread
lies about Kola Boof? Theyre both raised in
Washington DC and have two different fan base.
Zane is way more famous and richer so I dont
get her problem with Kola but some African
American women have a problem with Kola's
African views it seem. Apparently Zane need
to get a lawyer quick.
There was some stuff about all this in
GalleyCat a while back and I found a link.
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/apparently_people_feel_strongly_abou t_kola_boof_69299.asp
Some more stuff too.
http://poetwomen.50megs.com/custom2.html
I'm on Kola's side. I hope she can redeem
her name after the smear campaign. I know
the FBI don't play and I don't think people
should harrass someone for having different
political views and opinions. Kola reminds
me of the stories about Queen Nzingah and
women like that. She's popular because she
is a different thinker from most. I dont
know any black women writers in America that
is more interesting as she is. I see some
of our African American people are mean and
jealous to Africans because they dont want to
share the spotlight with "other" types of black
people who have differing views. That's what I
notice.
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Nafisa_goma
Veteran Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 339
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 06:06 pm: |
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Note from Kola:
Can people please be kind enough to
leave "Zane's" name out of any and everything
that has to do with Kola Boof?
If Kola has something to say about someone
then she will say it herself in her own
words.
This is exactly why drama and b.s. can't
die is because of gossipers and instigators
mis-reporting tit for tat and keeping
negativity going.
Kola Boof will always have love for any
and all Black women artists, regardless of
who they are or whether or not she got in
a tiff with them.
Kola is aware of Peter Bergen and other political
groups out to silence her, because of her public
stances on Islam, Palestine, colorism, etc.
That is being handled by the authorities.
What Kola doesn't want is to continue having
unnecessary drama with people over petty stuff.
The reason Kola doesn't post online anymore is
because her words are constantly taken out of
context and used against her by various
enemies---OR---in the case of MySpace, Wikipedida
and even this site AALBC---people falsely post comments under her name.
Kola Boof has never had a "MYSPACE" page
and the woman posting as "Kola Boof" was
a White "fan" of Kola who had her own
blond blue eyed photo on the page, but
people still thought she as Kola. She
was made to remove Kola's name.
Lawyers forced Wikipedia to shut down
their Kola Boof page for the same reason
--Impersonators posting false info about
Kola's life and experiences.
Kola is a passionate, expressive, emotional
person and her attempts at reaching out to
people have caused her to be burned,
because they come from a different background
and don't understand her views.
Kola now realizes that and is isolating herself
and concentrating on herself as an artist and
activist and not trying to be socially "Part" of the black literary community anymore.
Her work will be published and she will stay
to herself.
Please stop creating threads to incite mayhem.
It's not helping Kola and it's not reflecting
where she's at right now.
posted by
Nafisa Goma
(for Kola)
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