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Nafisa_goma
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 08:26 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I had to post about this, because ultimately it's about what black men (all men?) really think is beautiful. At the end I have a question for all
the gentlemen.

Your girl Kola Boof was "in studio" Tuesday night on the Keidi Awadu show in Los Angeles. There was Mr. Awadu and a crew of 3 other young black men in the studio with Kola for a 2 hour chat, but it was 95 degrees that day and the
air conditioning wasn't working.

Kola was complaining that the studio was so hot she was going to faint, so Mr. Awadu and his crew got a fan going and start giving her cold juice to drink.

Kola was wearing ankle-length leggings and took off her sandles and got on top of the "mic" desk and crossed her legs barefoot and when Mr. Awadu saw Kola's feet, he began raving on the air about what beautiful sexy "perfect" feet Kola Boof has.

He made Kola lift up her feet and he and his crew went on and on about her dainty "pretty feet".

That was Tuesday night and you'd think that Kola would be adored for her breasts, but since
that interview, ****and for the first time in her career*****, she's got like 100 email per every 12 hours from "Black Men" vowing their ultimate devotion and begging for pics of her pretty feet.

There has even been a very serious offer from Jerome Lund at Vaseline Lotion in Unilever Connecticut to use Ms. Boof's feet in print ads for black magazines!!!!!

Jerome Lund is a black man and Mr. Awadu's "internet radio show" plays all the way in London we found out.

Without even seeing Kola's feet, the volume of response has been SHOCKING.

Ladies, it's our feet that excite men. I don't know why, but it's just true.

Men don't want big bosoms as much as they want soft, dainty well groomed feet.

Go figure, because I'm totally miffed.

I do have a question for the men. WHY our feet?????

Did anyone see the Eddie Murphy "Boomerang" movie where he was crazy
for women's feet? Is this a racial thing
with only black men or is it all men?


Thanks for reading.
Nafisa Goma.
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 03:05 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

And this is news..why..?? Lawd this board
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 03:31 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It is SOME men, it is called a 'foot fetish' usually. It is a very specific thing.

I doubt men are going to be choosing feet over breasts or bums anytime soon. If she does get that Vaseline offer good luck to her tho!
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 03:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Oh Bull Shit Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof. Don't nobody give a fukc about your stanknastycrustydriedupcornytoejamencrustedbiscuitfeet.
Stupid ass beotch!

When are you gonna stop posting your clusterfukced nonsense?


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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 08:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I posted this because I knew how much it would annoy the scrooges like you Mzuri. LOL

You never disappoint.

Lili so many enjoyed the "Haiku" thread bashing
Kola it was nice to annoy her haters
with this new thread. Glad it worked on you.

Obviously if Mr. Grind was drunk and had Ms.Boof
on his mind after all this time that he came up
with a "Haiku" thread then that means that she is
news and often thought about by people like Mr. Grind who probably would be interested to know
that Ms. Boof has beautiful feetsies since he
gets drunk and writes poems about Kola.

Right Lili?

His thread about some girl being "authentic" or not was another ode to Kola on the brain and was kind of creepy.

I like this thread more than the one about "Haiku Kola" poems Lili but I'm glad it annoys Kola's enemies.

Do you have any memories about men reacting to your feet?







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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 08:49 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Look. Kola has exceptionally beautiful hands,too.


XOXOXO


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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 09:14 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Oooooootay! And there ya have it.........!
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Ummmmmmmm I dont know why your addressing me because I thought this was a pointless thread but..ok I'll bite. No, I have never had men look at my feet and get off on them...react whatever. In fact, the men I deal with dont have time to get to my feet..KWIM
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 10:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOL ! I had a strange man offer/beg to pump my gas because of my feet.
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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 11:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


What Ever Stupid Ass Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof.

You post to annoy your haters. Get a fukcing life.

Why don't you wake up to reality and look at the Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof threads that no one even bothered to reply to as an indicator that no one gives a care, instead of being so deluded that you can't grasp that very simple concept. And why don't you measure your own self-worth by something other than a haiku?

I almost feel sorry for you since you clearly have no self-pride, self-worth, self-respect, self-esteem or any other self values and you continue crawling back to post your lame-o boring stories about how Kanye did your book blurb, Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof's overgrown clodhoppers and all the other boring turds you keep pulling out of your butt. This after you told us all to drop dead and you'd never be back. And how could we forget your pathetic post on the long good-bye.

http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/23046/24984.html?1175450043

Since you're going to continue to post here, why don't you do us all a ginormous favor and come up with something new and exciting every once in a while (would once every six months be too much to hope for) instead of regurgitating your same old tired cud? Do you think we like being bored to fukcing tears by your preposterous stories?

Think on this, dimwit. How the fukc could all these "hundreds of Black men" see Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof's feet on an internet radio show??? Sorry wy-n-ch! You just keep getting caught in your nappy little web of lies, don't you Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof??? Chronic lying froot loop!!!

Just one more thing before I depart for the day - why don't you get some of those men who have "vowed their devotion" to your putrid paws to send your dimwitted ass the funds to register a real domain name. Maybe then you can stop posting links to bullshit sites like 50megs.com and http://kolaperfume.5u.com. I recommend http://www.KolasFeetStank.com Simple minded beotch!

You're welcome.


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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 11:42 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOL! Does everyone see how outrageously upset this gargoyle is getting over Kola?

Here's the Kindergarten answer to your
question Mzuri:

It's a radio broadcast and the listeners heard 4 young black men raving over a woman's beautiful feet. That was probably more powerful than actually seeing the feet.

Got a brain gargoyle?

Btw, Mzuri, the host of the show is Keidi Awadu and you can email him: keidi@sbcglobal.net

He'll confirm for you that his show has caused a sensation after the men kept praising Kola's pretty feet. :-)

One of the points Keidi kept asking was how can a woman over 6 feet have such dainty little feet? Oh, Mzuri you would have went into a pure jealous stroke!

Kola's always said you're a farting Crab and she's so right. You stink up the board, crab lady. LOL! I expect much more theatrics from you momentarily, jealous one.

Jackie, thanks for sharing that because I'm
hearing several women now who have also experienced this phenom with men and "feet".

Kola told Keidi that she is over 40 and men
have never noticed her feet until he was raving about them on his radio broadcast.

Now they're both deluged with mail!

Lili, I addressed you because you addressed my thread in a negative way but you never had anything bad to say about the "Kola Haiku" thread so that put you in the Kola haters column and I was just noting my joy in being able to annoy you with this pointless thread. Then again, you seem to come back to this pointless thread. I guess being a cow you hear a bell ringing. HAHAHA!!!!

Sorry.

With petty women like you and Mzuri it's so hard not to resist.





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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 09:39 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I wasnt going to respond..but your type "sounds"
suspiciously like Kola..who I like by the way...your posts havent been so confrontational, so it makes me wonder. You usually drop info about Kola and move on..but I suppose folks change...CLEARLY. Thats fine if thats how you roll..but you dont know me..so dont call me names since you know nothing about ME. Thats unbecoming of a professional like yourself.
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 10:03 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ROFLMAO...this whole damn thread is just hilarious!! Every post...
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 11:43 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


As usual Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof, your forum etiquette sucks. You know better than to post people's e-mail addresses on a public forum. That's probably some trick shit your desperate ass set up anyway. Ain't nobody developed any foot fetish from hearing about your corny toes on the radio. And I've already told you that you don't have a got damn thing for anyone to be jealous of, you overgrowntrailertrashsasquatchlookingbitch!!!

I implore you to come up with something new, your accusations of folks being jealous of your nappy headed snagged tooth ass are played out.


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The more distance we get from the Kola Boof affair, the more ridiculous it looks in retrospect.

BTW, P. Lewis just phoned in to tell me he just appeared on KPOO in San Francisco, hyping his wonderful "new" book NATE. He even read a passage from it. He also appeared with Floyd Salas, Kim Shuck, Karla Brundage and Reginald Lockett at BookPassage at the ferry building in downtown Frisco, at Alexander Books and Wild-About-Books in Clearlake, CA. Not that I gave a shit--in fact, I told the asshole to shutup!! Stop jamming your goddamn book down my throat!!
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 12:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Come on and admit it Schakspir!!! You know you have an insatiable desire to get it on with Kola's feet
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I think this is a wonderful and important subject.

I'm surprised that it took us so long to get around to it.

I really don't care about feet. Feet are to walk on. I don't look at or notice a womans's feet. Long as they don't stink and she doesn't have a pair of hoofs, I don't care.

I used to be a leg man. Then I was an ass man. For a while I was a breast man. Then I got to be a neck man. An arms man. A back man. A stomach man.

It isn't important. As long as she's alive.

Or dead only a few minutes--
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 12:36 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Mzuri--

Ya feets too big?
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 01:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Sorry Chris but you can have none. No poontang and no feets for you :-)
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What Ever Stupid Ass Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof.

You post to annoy your haters. Get a fukcing life.

Why don't you wake up to reality and look at the Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof threads that no one even bothered to reply to as an indicator that no one gives a care, instead of being so deluded that you can't grasp that very simple concept. And why don't you measure your own self-worth by something other than a haiku?

I almost feel sorry for you since you clearly have no self-pride, self-worth, self-respect, self-esteem or any other self values and you continue crawling back to post your lame-o boring stories about how Kanye did your book blurb, Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof's overgrown clodhoppers and all the other boring turds you keep pulling out of your butt. This after you told us all to drop dead and you'd never be back. And how could we forget your pathetic post on the long good-bye.

http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/23046/24984.html?1175450043

Since you're going to continue to post here, why don't you do us all a ginormous favor and come up with something new and exciting every once in a while (would once every six months be too much to hope for) instead of regurgitating your same old tired cud? Do you think we like being bored to fukcing tears by your preposterous stories?

Think on this, dimwit. How the fukc could all these "hundreds of Black men" see Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof's feet on an internet radio show??? Sorry wy-n-ch! You just keep getting caught in your nappy little web of lies, don't you Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof??? Chronic lying froot loop!!!

Just one more thing before I depart for the day - why don't you get some of those men who have "vowed their devotion" to your putrid paws to send your dimwitted ass the funds to register a real domain name. Maybe then you can stop posting links to bullshit sites like 50megs.com and http://kolaperfume.5u.com. I recommend http://www.KolasFeetStank.com Simple minded beotch!

You're welcome.


THIS FROM A WOMAN WHO COMES ON THIS BOARD AND PRETENDS TO BE A 20 YEAR OLD, HETEROSEXUAL, BLACK MALE.

YOU ARE ONE TO TALK MANZURI!!
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 03:15 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


SOS - Your ass is so stupid you probably clicked on http://www.KolasFeetStank.com huh???



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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 03:20 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOLOL

You folks are twisted!

ROFLMAO
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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 08:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Well here's the first post on this thread that Kola asked me to make, Lili. The rest were mine.
I'm sure Mzuri and Schakspir will be chewing on Mzuri's busted furniture after they read this. Can't wait for their envy replies. :-)
____________________





Tiki Barber has now joined Kanye West in praising Kola's new novel "Virgins In the Beehive".

Kola's new poetry collection is already getting
rave reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Sudanese-American-Poems-Kola/dp/0971201919/ref=pd _bbs_sr_7/104-6182858-6649506?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178929275&sr=8-7


Molefi Asante:
"...Kola Boof is one of our greatest writers."



Immigration, Black Identity and Becoming an American Citizen

In this powerful new poetry collection from Kola Boof (Nile River Woman), her first written in America, the embattled Sudanese-born author extends her controversial stamp on Religion, Sexuality, Racial Identity, Colorism, History and Pop Culture by offering up what can only be described as a scenic trance-like constant "rememory" voyage.

Next to legends Sylvia Plath and Mari Evans, Kola Boof cites musical icons Curtis Mayfield, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Charles Stepney, Lauryn Hill and Eric B. and Rakim as her major influences for writing poetry (she feels that music and vintage films dictate her writing), and in usual "Boof" fashion, the mix of sparse and epic poems go on to light a tapestry of hauntingly beautiful images evoking sensuality, nature, motherhood, nakedness, isolation, and as always, dead bolt political rage (especially powerful are the poems honoring Boof's slain friend Theo Van Gogh and SPLA leader John Garang).

In one poem that questions the moral superiority that Blacks have claimed after slavery and colonialism, Boof writes "the slave is the devil too"...and in what is possibly the book's most powerful and confrontational piece, the epic pages-long "WHITE MAN'S MOTHER", Boof savagely and without mercy opens bare every unspoken shard of brilliance and honesty in identifying "white supremacy" and "the beauty that hides her face" as she decrees a new aesthetic for black womanhood, and ultimately, for what Boof calls "authentic black humanity" itself.

This is neither your typical "Black Power Rhetoric" nor is it Sylvia Plath "goth" nor feminist earth mother prose ala Maya Angelou--Kola Boof is a stylist all unto herself and reaffirms her growing importance as the Post-Colonial Womanist Pan African voice in Black women's literature. Her relevance is undeniable.

(*This review is from a Prof. at Columbia University)


PRAISE FOR KOLA BOOF


"...the African Garbo"--N.Y. TIMES



"Kola Boof is a writer of power, principle and loads of courageous perseverance"--Derrick Bell



"My pick for best book of 2006 is Kola Boof's autobiography 'Diary of a Lost Girl'..--KAM WILLIAMS, Princeton








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Here you go Nafisa_goma Kola Spoof, this is for you beotch!!! It's a tribute to your dickbrained nonsense. It's kind of old and I'm too busy to think about your pigeontoedbowlegged ass right now so it will have to do. You'll get the point. Good luck with your book. Not!!!


THE WINDOWS OF MY POPCORN TUMBLEWEEDS
a satirical poem by Mzuri


I am a pillow filled with

concrete and broken glass

my teeth have soulful eyes

and when I eat the airplane

I see your inner beginnings

tempted frazzled and burnt

rocky Rice-A-Roni



The ocean tree is dancing

swirling around a can of

Chicken of the Flowers

fantastical multi-colored

hard-boiled cabbage toothpicks

with peanut butter soldiers

drive me away



I am the jellyfish god

chrome spinner rims in my heart

the popcorn of my ankles

dances thru the corn rows

of his futile boondocks

cinnamon thoughts cloud

my tangerine optics



Smack dab in the middle

of the void of the desert

tumbleweeds and stickerbushes

blow thru the empty spaces

of my cradling sofa baskets

mushrooms topped with creamy

black whipped cream



My eyes taste your glowing

candle light doorways

my teeth see the fire of the

edge of mass absurdity

Ghana Barbie hates being beautiful

and the still water hears the laughter

of my macaroni and cheese





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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 08:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

FYI Mzuri here is a YouTube video of Keidi Awadu in Ghana two months ago where he was doing a documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMv5y3Eayqo

His radio show is incredibly popular and he LOVES Kola Boof's feet. He asked Kola to marry him on the show.

Rub this in.

He described Kola's feet as:

dainty,
sexy,
perfect,
"pretty feet"
beautiful

Apparently Kola doesn't have the unsightly bunyons and crust between the toes that you suffer from down in El Paso, Mzuri. She isn't a gargoyle munching on busted furniture and spewing vomit each time she touches a keyboard.

(*These insults, by the way, are from Kola herself)

Kola said nobody ever noticed her feet before so she's shocked by the huge response.

Sorry you're so jealous Mzuri, but at least someone like Troy Johnson will find your un-talented outbursts funny and warranted. You're
the sort of termite who brings so much to the
board. Mainly rot.

Kola wants Grind and the rest of the board to
take their "Haiku" and stick it up their ass.
She says she detests all of you just as much
as you hate her.

Meanwhile, make sure to watch Mr. Awadu's broadcast from Ghana on YouTube! And remember, he LOVES Kola Boof's pretty feet!


thanks for reading,
Nafisa Goma






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Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 08:55 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Mzuri you needn't make up lies. Here's video of the man who LOVES Kola Boof's dainty little gorgeous feet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMv5y3Eayqo

He asked Kola to marry him on the air, because of her feet. :-)

His studio crew thought the same thing. That she has the prettiest feet. :-)

I posted his email address which goes directly
to his call-in phone lines at his radio show.

You exploding with rage yet, gargoyle?



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http://www.KolasFeetStankLikeAGarbageDump.com







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ROFLMAO...Oh. My. God.

I think I may have ruptured something. LOL
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I'm serious. I'm near tears. LOL
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LOL...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU FOLKS?
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Nafishy_Gummy, no sale. "The African Garbo" doesn't say shit about her or her writing; it's vague, and sounds as if it were pulled out of context(which might have been more negative or ridiculing). I can pull up more positive shit about me from the Village Voice. And I don't care for either rag, personally.

And who is Molefi Asante? A kid in his twenties who is like other kids in his twenties--thinks he knows everything, can't be taught anything. Let's see Kola get accolades from bigger names, and not cranks like Derrick Bell. (And if she did get accolades from these bigger names I would immediately question their sanity.)


I am Kola

Blacker than the tar
spilling in the street
kicked over by some
jive-ass honkie bytch
I am blackness itself
I am black as the night
Blacker than the bloodberry
of my berry own blood
blacker than coal black
an de sebben dwarfs
blacker than mickey mouse
crow jane don't like me
white cracker wynch
die pus-breathed pig snout
whore co/cksucker
I am blacker than the
night
and no one owns me
not even Walt Disney

See? Even Shakespeare never did anything like that. ;0)
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I'm so enjoying this. It's like arguing with
pre-schoolers! :-)

"And who is Molefi Asante? A kid in his twenties who is like other kids in his twenties"

No, it's the kid's FATHER--the great Molefi Asante Sr. himself.

http://www.asante.net/

Kola doesn't know the son, Molefi Jr. but
she's very good friends with the legendary
father and he absolutely loves Kola Boof.

I would add that you're incredibly envious
of Ms. Boof, too, Schakspir. Your poem
hightlights that fact and the word of someone
as respected and high up as Molefi Asante Sr.
drowns out anything you could dare say, right?








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"Three times I have opened books written
by the Sudanese beauty Kola Boof and all
three times I have been blown away. You
can't even put her in a class with the
other new kids out. I will go as far as
to say Kola Boof is one of our greatest
writers.
"

--Molefi Kete Asante



_______________

This is the quote he sent to us to use
for Kola's new poetry and to another editor
for her novels.

Are you still fuming Schakspir? :-)


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http://www.KolaGetsAPedicure.com





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OMG....it's such a nothing issue to get worked up over, that's it's just so funny that this is still going on.

Somewhere a toe emerges,
and the devil can't control his rage.

Not only is it Saturday, folks, but this is Mother's Day weekend. Go out to eat breakfast with your family and go to the mall. I know I will. Bye.
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"Are you still fuming Schakspir?"

Nope. I never was. Everybody else--except you--thinks that all your pathetic attempts to pump up KB's scribbling is hilarious. This is a source of entertainment for us. We have read your sorry-ass poetry and it's so bad it makes us want to tear out our eyes. DAVE EGGERS can write better than this on a really really bad day. Please don't shit us with lines like:


"Sharm el-Sheikh"
(an exclusive seaside resort in Egypt)

eyoun sera
I am a young woman and yet they
visit me like a grave.
Circle of Masters.
A scorpion, black as oil, stings at each nipple.
He calls me Nefertiti...but no, President Mubarak
I am not buried alive. Yet.

I am like a Cobra dancing before you,
My naked "S" cobra-moaning like a curving rope
to lynch the pendulum's whore

My mouth is sweet like honey
My tongue like the sperm that comes when
rain hits sugar
My tight...tiny...pussy....salty as the Sea.
Sweet dirty --that's me.
The Dinka man insisting:
"The taller she is....the more cows she deserves."

I am tall enough to nurse the moon.
But I don't want your Gods.
Your weak sperm...your petite dicks
You're nothing but men.

And I am not the devil...I just look like her.

Uh, yeah. I really believe that Molefi Asante gave this clown accolades. (BTW if he did, then the guy is an idiot.)
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This has got to be one of the funniest topics EVER on Thumpers Corner.

First of all, I don't know how pretty Kola's feet really are however some men DO have fetishes with feet. Second of all - Mzuri, Shakes, and Nafisa all have me braying in laughter.

Mzuri for posting that dump site. WTF? Girl, we NEED your azz at another board I post at to put some of these trifling broads in there place, lol.

Nafisa for fighting tooth and nail to prove just how much someone is loving Kola's feet. I mean she is posting websites, insulting folks, quoting Kola and everything. CLASSIC. BTW, Nafisa, is Nafisa Goma your real name? Just curious.

Now Shakes, you by far are the WORST. You're going to get me fired. Why the fuk did I have to come in and lurk just to see if there are any updates and you clowing like mad?! Where is Ms. Cynique at?

LMMFAO. All we need is Kola know and this shyt would be fire!

I'll tell yawl this much. If my black azz gets fired, I'm coming to live with one of yall because YAWL will be responsible for it.
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AS - You won't get fired if you don't laugh out loud :-)
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Mzuri, I'm laughing all right. This shyt is out of control. Ms. Goma acts as if she has some personal stake in proving how desireable Kola's FEET ARE.

WTF? And this is Kola's friend?

Thorazine, anyone?
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I'm sure that I don't need to tell you that Nafisa ain't nothing but another figment of Kola's warped imagination. She messed around and burnt her bridges here and now she's crawling back to post under the guise of a pretend "friend" to keep us all abreast of some BS that don't nobody give a carp about anyway. She probably believes that if she dropped dead tomorrow the world would come to a standstill - for a minute.



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Look at Iman's BEAUTIFUL FEET!!

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Yummy.

"EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS"

In broad daylight
I am expected to see nothing.
I am a girl; low and dark
as the crease of shadow from
which I swam.
I have no hair like
the Arab woman (whose hair
is like silk and smells
like snot)--and when the
White woman comes to my face
(ME/the Black man's mother)--I think
of the penis.

The men want us to hate one
another. It makes them
feel safe...to have the
White (day) and the
Black (night) denying the
flowsongs of blood--THE RIVER

every little bit
hurts, God.
In Africa--we have no
cold oceans/We accept
that you made us
from fire

We sing to the lioness
and pray for when
the hate will go away--in
broad daylight
(from where it came)

O GOD, darkest father!
We are Black Men's daughters;
wet, tired and hungry.
At our heels the demon snaps
mightily no matter
what beam of wind we direct; what
beam of Sun we deflect

For out of bare breasts
our hearts are LEAPING
of warm oceans: the brown eyes
of our daughters
staring into the stretchmark of
a blue body's sorrow.

We kiss it up to God. Because
every little bit hurts.

(from Bint-il-Nil, Kola Boof's Best Poems(!!!!!!))
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http://www.TheCureForAKolaBoofPoem.com






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Look at Iman's BEAUTIFUL FEET!!

Look like a couple of feet to me--take away the nail polish and high heels and they could belong to one of the Green Bay Packers. and a little worse for wear after 50 years of her stepping around on them.
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It looks like shes' got bunions.
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She does got bunions. After fifty years of use nobody should want to show their hooves in public.

Feet:

Mostly bone, gristle, tendons, skin and nails. Yuukk!

Let's not forget the toejam, fungus, callouses, dirt and UNCUT FUNK!
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Those feet look scary!

So that's what a bunion looks like? What the hell would cause that? Looks like the bone had been broken or out of joint at one time or another.

I doubt those would be Iman's feet. Those feet are HUGE, like abominable snowman huge. Maybe Rupaul has feet like that, or another MAN, but those can't be a woman's feet unless she's 7'4".
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Those are really Iman's feet

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Oprah got some stank feet too

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Wow. I've never seen feet that huge on a human woman ever in all my 32 years.

Oprah's foot looks swollen like a diabetic's foot. She should look into that. She's from MS, so I'm sure she has it in her family.
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Plus she got six toes.
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so wheres the pictures of Kolas feet? I emailed that radio host and he sent me back: Kola's feet, neck, face everything was gorgeous! Beautiful sista in person.but with no pics, then I don't believe. freinds say anything nice about their friends. He could be lying or was PAID to say stuff.


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Shakespeare you have all her books and career clippings SMH what is up with you and Mzuri fettishing this woman and keeping files on her?
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It's not just a perfume: OBSESSION.

LOL
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I've actually wondered the same thing, Enchanted. I actually like Kola, but you won't find one pic of her on my computer.
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I had to pull this back up. I just needed a really good gut laugh.
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Why didn't you just cut and paste this tripe and then print a copy out for your reading enjoyment?
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I use my printer for much more important documents. Neither will I save everything to my hard drive.
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LOLOLOL, y'all:

The raucous world of black celebrity blogs

By Vanessa E. Jones
The Boston Globe
Thursday, June 14, 2007

BOSTON: Angel Laws, a 22-year-old college student in Jacksonville, North Carolina, merely wanted to poke fun at a celebrity. For the entry titled "Guess Who: Messed Up Feet Edition" on her gossip blog, Concrete Loop, Laws posted a photo of a pair of weathered bronze feet wrapped in strappy black sandals and hinted at the person's identity by commenting, "I guess all those years on the runway take a toll on the feet." Unfortunately for Laws, the owner of those feet, the model Iman, happens to read Concrete Loop.

Iman responded to the item on her MySpace page by uploading an image of herself and her husband, the rocker David Bowie, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent Costume Institute gala. For this event, Iman wore a white pantsuit with white shoes. In the caption, Iman wrote, "Decided to cover my feet up as Concreteloop would post how ugly my feet are."


Welcome to the raucous world of black celebrity blogs. Sites such as Media Take Out (mediatakeout.com), Concrete Loop (concreteloop.com), and Young, Black and Fabulous (ybf.blogspot.com) are among the 10 most searched gossip blogs among Yahoo users, according to the Yahoo Buzz Index. They're joined by Crunk & Disorderly, Bossip, Cake and Ice Cream, and others, most of which have arrived in the past two years. The sites were created by gossip fans frustrated by the fact that their favorite mainstream gossip blogs - and magazines - seemed to limit their coverage to superstars such as Beyoncé, Halle Berry, or Will Smith, and paid little attention to celebrities such as Sanaa Lathan, Chris Brown, or Tracee Ellis Ross.

"I decided to do it myself because they were ignoring black people," said Natasha Eubanks, 25, of Washington, who started Young, Black and Fabulous in 2005, weeks before entering Loyola University law school in New Orleans. Before launching YB&F, Eubanks sent e-mails to the writers of sites such as Pink is the New Blog, which Eubanks occasionally links to, asking them to include more black celebrity items. She launched YB&F a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit and became more serious with it, by posting daily and even creating her own YB&F vocabulary, as her disenchantment with law school grew. It's now 10th on the Yahoo Buzz's gossip blog chart - and it's Eubanks's full-time job.

"What people don't realize is 'Girlfriends' is the most popular show for African-Americans," said Fred Mwangaguhunga, 32, of the CW sitcom about four female friends that stars Ross. A former corporate lawyer, Mwangaguhunga last year began Media Take Out, which is second only to Perez Hilton's gossip site, according to Yahoo Buzz. "You can look at Star magazine, In Touch, and you won't see any of the women in there."

That mentality seeps into the Internet community, he said, because "there's this idea, I think, that the mainstream has that black people don't go on the Internet, which is not true." In fact, a report released last month by Jupiter Research shows that African-Americans, who represent 11.4 percent of the Internet community, are the second largest minority online behind Latinos. African-Americans comprise almost 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Fans of the gossip sites can savor candid photos of the basketball star Carmelo Anthony cradling his newborn son or red carpet paparazzi shots that inspire bloggers to praise Ross for her fashion sense and deride her costar, Golden Brooks, for her worn appearances. Readers can peruse rumors about Usher and his fiancée, Tameka Foster, or read interviews with Ne-Yo, Fantasia, or Kelly Rowland. Concrete Loop recently offered five songs from R. Kelly's new CD days before its release, although the accompanying post railed against Kelly's continued popularity as he faces child pornography charges.

Omar Wasow, a technology analyst for NBC's "Today" show, believes these sites have arrived for several reasons. Blogs by Perez Hilton and others, he said, prove that a single person posting items can generate a livable income. For instance, Hilton, who gets almost two million unique visitors a day, reportedly makes a six-figure income. Additionally, said Wasow, black celebrities are becoming high-profile enough that they can move out of Jet magazine to a bigger marketplace. Previously, mainstream magazines rarely included even one African-American story. In Style magazine bucked this trend in its June issue by including features on Ciara, Kerry Washington, and Aisha Tyler.

Mainstream gossip blogs are getting the message as well. In April, the team behind Jossip launched Stereohype, a blog dedicated to black news and culture.

Alicia Canady, 25, of Dorchester, visits Eubanks's blog daily. "Her comments are funny," said Canady, "and I like the pictures." She also visits Concrete Loop and Media Take Out.

Mwangaguhunga's entrance into this world started in early 2006, when he launched a general interest blog on African-American news and culture. He quickly noticed that gossip stories received the most interest, so he tailored his focus. One recent example was a photo that allegedly showed Paris Hilton in a sexually compromising position with the rapper/singer Cee-Lo. A letter from Hilton's lawyers claimed the photo was altered and threatened to file a defamation lawsuit if the photo wasn't removed. Mwangaguhunga complied, but said during a recent interview, "There's this belief that once a celebrity"says it's not real, "people say, 'Oh no, it's not real.' With respect to that photo, I don't believe it's not real."

The controversy shows the role blogs play in the celebrity media world.

"In the mainstream media there is often a sense of propriety," said Wasow. "One of the things that the Internet offers is these outsider voices that can be much more critical and independent."

Laws, who began Concrete Loop in November 2005 as a solo effort, also offers original content with the help of contributors. Laws said she was the first to receive a sexually explicit photo of Ne-Yo and his female backup dancer - which arrived after rumors circulated that the singer/producer was gay. Laws said one of Ne-Yo's backup dancers sent the picture exclusively to her.

"People would be surprised where I get my information from," said Eubanks, who has debunked rumors of Beyoncé and Jay-Z breaking up by citing sources close to the stars. "Gossip is very smoke and mirrors. People will do anything for publicity."

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