My Relationship with Bin Laden was Questioned because I Look Fully Black

Kola Boof, Born Naima Bint Harith, kwembulwa ukuba inkosikazi Osama Bin Laden e 2002. Ngaphambi images of Boof enziwa umphakathi, kwakukuncane kakhulu okwakwaziwa yakhe eyaziwa, ngaphandle iqiniso ukuthi kuyinto orijin waseGibhithe-Sudanese. Kususelwa le ncazelo, yena uthi abezindaba American "wabiza emibonweni i Aristocrat Arab-wavusa ngubani babecabanga ngabe ibukeke Cher 'futhi kwakungekho ukungabaze ukuba yiqiniso ubuhlobo bakhe.

Nokho, Boof eminye uveza ukuthi lesi konke kwashintsha ngesikhathi lwembula ukuthi "kwakungekhona nje Black-kodwa wabheka Black-ngokugcwele ukuthi ngisukuma bamukelwe futhi wakhuliswa Black baseMelika e-United States wayesebuyela njengomuntu omdala kuya eNyakatho Afrika njengoba imodeli-actress. "Ukholelwa ukuthi kwakungenxa yokunithanda izici zakhe nebala ukuthi abezindaba uthathwa yakhe ukuba angabi muhle kangako kodwa kunalokho inkosikazi Prince Charles 'UCamilla Parker Bowles noma uyiNkosikazi President Clinton sika Monica Lewinsky futhi esola semthethweni ubuhlobo bakhe nomuntu wesifazane Manje uchaza ngokuthi "kaHitler isizukulwane wethu."

Ekhumbula kuhlasela abezindaba mayelana ungubani wakhe, Uyakhumbula ukuthi "ochwepheshe American athi usozigidi" bin Ladin "umndeni kwadingeka i ukuhlonipha eliphezulu ekilasini ukuthi ngeke sivumele 'elingcolile nokuthinta okusikisela yenkolo engasekelwe ngokocansi" Arab Muslim Osama ukuba abe indlovukazi Black.' "

Lezi zinsolo esesikhulume ngazo by Boof afakiwe ikheli lakhe yamuva nabezindaba American. Iveza ukuthi kunesidingo ukubhekana kokubulawa ubunjalo baso ngenxa nje yokuthi alunguza Black. Yena lisho "ngikhathele ukutshelwa baseMelika kokubili White and Black ukuthi ngoba Ngikhathazekile cocoa elinsundu, Ngikhathazekile ngokuzenzakalelayo okumbi engathandeki. "Yena eminye lithi isitatimende ukuthi" I am a chocolate anemibala owesifazane Afrika abahlala e America futhi angikaze ngibe ngaphandle indoda-I'm hhayi ababayo noma yedwa. I am a enhle ezihlakaniphile nekhono lokukhuluma Egyptian Sudanese Sunni American Egypto Gisi-Waaq Oromo chocolate womanist ongakaze wayefuna ukuba kwaziwe ukuthi ngisendleleni kube noHitler isizukulwane wethu. "

Nakuba abezindaba uyodala izingxabano zawo siqu mayelana nokuthi kungani ubuhlobo Boof ayenabo Bin Laden ephenywa, I bamthole othi ngempela ezithakazelisayo. I isanda Kuhlanganisani ingxoxo nomuntu asebenza naye mayelana nokuvukela yamuva eGibhithe nakwezinye izingxenye zezwe Northern Africa lapho eveza yena akazange cabanga abaseGibithe noma Tunisians ukuba African. Wachaza ukuthi "wabheka Arab more” hhayi 'Black' like Afrika, therefore, yena libabiza Arabhu hhayi African kubo. Nakuba Ngathola izimpendulo zakhe ukuba kungemnandi, I akuzange kummangaze ngoba abaningi banamathele lokhu sengqondo. The fact is, abaningi abazi noma abayiphikayo omunye impucuko endala Afrika ukuba yingxenye makeup yayo.

Afrika ingenye amazwekazi emhlabeni ezihlukahlukene kakhulu. Izici ezahlukene phonotypical, the izilimi ezihlukahlukene, Ukudla namasiko wonke neqhaza nobuhle bezwekazi. Nakuba abaningi namanje banamathele uhlukanise futhi ukubusa yokucabanga, kubalulekile ukuthi sonke ukugubha futhi sazise ukwehluka Africa kumele banikele.