Hate mail...

I received the following message on Friday last week. Just wanted to share it with all of you. It was in response to my piece on the Museum of the African Diaspora website (www.iveknownrivers.com) and the Great Black South Africans poster article which appeared in the Globe newspaper a few weeks ago. Check it out:


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REPONSE TO THE ALIONA GIBSON ARTICLE (Apr. 5-11, 2006 ed.)—NOT FOR PUBLICATION

This letter is in response to the Aliona Gibson (Gibson) article entitled: “Oakland Author A.G. highlights South African Leaders in Poster Project.” Gibson’s arrogance and ignorance combined was both shocking and appalling. Before I sat to write this critique, I went to both her websites just so that I could have a balanced explication of the facts before writing from my anger. After I read her bio and accompanying articles, I was livid.

First, I was born in South Africa, but grew up in the U.S. under de facto segregation in the Midwest. The so-called “African” Americans like Gibson now have the audacity to go to Africa just like the so-called white “Christian” missionaries with the arrogant ASSumption that they can “teach” Africans about history, Jesus Christ, culture, etc. Gibson is just as hypocritical in believing that she can educate South Africans about their own history! I think Africans should force these “whites posing as black people” (read: oreos, weave-wearing, blond-hair-dying, welfare-receiving, crack-smokin’, illegitimate-baby-having, prison-bound, highly-paid-uneducated-rappers-callin’-women-bitches-hoes-n’ niggahs-and ‘ah-ain’t-no-african’ 21st Century slaves) to stop using the word “African” to describe something that has been spawned in America’s cesspools of immorality, lewdness, lasciviousness, violence and decay, etc. Behind your backs, Africans have no respect for black folks because they know that they’re ashamed to be African (what is Tiger Woods? a Cau-blasian; he put the “Cau” first, not a “Bla-causian”).

Second, Gibson was quoted as saying that (and I’m not surprised that an AmeriKKKan/Eurocentric spawned “nigger” newspaper would put such a disrespectful quote in its “rag”): “…it’s as if Nelson Mandela is the only black person who has contributed greatly to S.A.” In AmeriKKKa, you had Marcus, Malcolm AND Martin and you’re still the equivalent of a Churches-2-piece-and-a-biscuit-type race looking for more free gov’ment cheese. None of their teaching took effect because, even though black people comprise less than 13% of the population, you still buy more fake hair weaves to have “bone-strait” European hair, hair dyes, $200 tennis shoes, homes you can’t afford, fancy cars that get repossessed, and you commit proportionately more crimes. Proportionately, more black women are on welfare, more black men and women are either homeless or in prison, and you have a high infant mortality rate in your country!! But Gibson (and she IS UGLY) and your “rag” has the audacity to criticize S.A. when white supremacy and colonization (especially here in the Bay area where almost every black person wants to be anything but African) is at its zenith. Gibson, like those arrogant white “missionaries” think that they came from a civilized society here in AmeriKKKa.

Third, your West African ancestors sold you into slavery. That’s why West Africans (who other Africans think are ugly, inside and out) are NOT respected by East, South and North Africans. They still have a culture of betrayal, stealing, violence toward each other and criminality. Blacks in AmeriKKKa are in denial—the white man couldn’t go into Africa and get all those slaves by himself. A Yoruba once told me that the white man approached them first, but he was too much of a liar to tell me the whole story. The white man came to them because they (and the Fon) were known as “slave raiders and traders.” This they did for profit. When black folks start asking for reparations, they had better ask for some reparations from the Nigerians and other West Africans that helped that white “kidnapper.” They should reap some of the profits from tourism garnered from visits to Gouree Island.
Gibson is perpetrating as a peace-loving “missionary” to Africa, but she’s as delusional, ignorant and arrogant as the white “missionaries” that went before her. They were all trying to get a “piece” either from those beautiful African women, men, little girls or boys (promiscuous perverts, pedophiles, and propagandists posing as peace-loving missionaries and “Christians”). Now, like her slave raiding/trading ancestors, she’s trying to “pimp” her experience in S.A. for profit to black folks who are too dumb to even find the continent of Africa on a map, but they call themselves “African!” They don’t even know it’s a continent of nation states, they think it’s a country. Besides Nelson Mandela, they couldn’t even tell you anything about Patrice Lumumba, Stephen Biko, Robert Mugabe, Walter Sisilu, Kwame Nkrhuma (sp?), Ras Tafari, Ras Menelik, or any other revered Africans. “If de white man says dey bad, dey mus’ be bad—dey don’ done som’thin. Ah ain’t goin’ to Af-fri-kay, dey ain’t don’ nuthin’ fo’ me. If de white man don’ kilt dem, dey musta done som’thin’ wrong—like eatin’ or killin’ each other ova dere.’” The truth is, Africans don’t trust black AmeriKKKans anymore than they trust white folks, because they are “cut from the same cloth.” Many black folks like Gibson denigrate Malcolm’s legacy by getting “paid or laid” by any means necessary.

Fourth, beauty has more to do with symmetry in one’s face. Gibson is ugly, and by looking at her, I wouldn’t trust her around my little girls (or boys). A picture is worth a thousand words, and she has a sinister, evil smile “pasted” on her face. Africans don’t believe people with fake “white folks’ smiles.” It looks like it hurts them to smile—that’s why they called her ugly—she’s ugly from the inside out. For the newspaper picture, she didn’t even try to “fix herself up.” Beauty comes from within, therefore, Gibson is like the low-class, ghetto black rapper who’s getting paid to denigrate other decent Africans and disseminate white folks’ propaganda. White folks have already “funded” her—that’s why she was chosen by the Peace Corps. Gibson needs to take her collage to East or West Oakland where, besides Martin Luther King, they don’t know anything about Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joycelyn Elders, Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Norton Holmes, Betty Shabazz, etc. You would think that Martin Luther King was the only one who fought for civil rights over here. How dare she imply that South Africans don’t know their own history, that’s how I found out about the famed South African civil rights Attorney Victoria Ngaye (sp?). Unlike blacks in AmeriKKKa, at least the S.A.’s were PAID for the work they did for white folks—these blacks worked free for over 300 years. What’s even more galling is that the blacks in the South are so ignorant, they stayed in the South under Jim Crow even when they could have “gon’ up North!” Who in Africa could such historically illiterate AmeriKKKan-made niggers like Gibson and Gates teach? Gates is a well-paid “handkerchief head” history professor. Like your so-called hero Frederick Douglass, Gates got his “freedom” and “da furst thang ah did was get me a white woman; den ah sho’ nuff hadta get me a Cadillac.”

Like Gibson, I had an interest in going to S.A. through the Peace Corps. When I attended a recruiting meeting in Atlanta, they said that a “volunteer’s purpose is to give a positive picture of AmeriKKKa—you’re not allowed to say negative things about AmeriKKKa.” Well, I lost interest right then and there, because I refuse to let white folks censor my opinions and experiences as an African woman in the most racist and sexist country in the world across the oceans. White folks know their type of niggers; they like niggers and 21st Century slaves like Gibson and her Mo’Hous friend (and rappers), and will pay them millions to steal, kill and destroy cultures, lives and morality in true Africans. They’re the monsters that Dr. Frankenstein created (pun intended). I’ve had three S.A. acquaintances who couldn’t wait to leave AmeriKKKa to go back to Johannesburg, Zimbabwe and Cape Town. Is Africa utopic? NO, but I’m going back because I’m sick and tired of (1) niggers like Gibson (2) her arrogant white counterparts treating me like a third class nigger, instead of a first class citizen (3) the ravages of capitalist oppression. I refuse to be a “paid-for” slave like Gibson. I’d rather be treated like a stranger/foreigner in Africa than to be treated like a slave/nigger in AmeriKKKa. Forget the Peace Corps, I’m going on “my own dime.”

Richard Pryor was right, “there aren’t any niggers in Africa,” they’re mainly in AmeriKKKa. The bad Africans want to come here so that they will not be held accountable for their lying, cheating, stealing, whoring (adultery), homosexuality, and betrayal. They can even get away with murder and rape (O.J. and Kobe, or any other N.B.A. or N.F.L. black athlete with money and a crook for a lawyer). Now, what exactly can Gibson or any black AmeriKKKan (especially from Morehomos a/k/a Morehouse) teach AFRICANS? I fully understand why the S.A. principal doesn’t want something that looks like Gibson to be in his school—he’s concerned about the immorality and ignorance she might spread faster than AIDS to little innocent African children. It’s a testament to African hospitality because, even if I had a house, I wouldn’t let something like Gibson live with me (esp. if I had children).

Most Africans, even though they’re considered “third world” by black Europeans like Gibson are better educated that black AmeriKKKans who won’t even finish free public high school. Blacks are the “flip side” of the white coin—they’re clones who have sold and lost their souls to Satan. On Gibson’s website she had the audacity to say that her “mother didn’t want her to go to S.A., but to another West African country.” South Africans would have been better off not to have her or her “mammy” over there. She would fit in better with the ugly Nigerians. Then she could join in their cheating, lying and pimping of their wives and children. Xhoisans, Zulus and Ghanians are prettier; so are Ethiopians, Somalians, Eritreans, Yemenis, Moroccans, Libyans, Malians, Maasai, etc. Some of that darkness and ugliness exemplified in Gibson and her West African ancestors is caused by inner darkness, evil and bad in- breeding between brothers and sisters. Unlike most blacks here, most Africans are tribal and don’t believe in miscegenation (blood mixing) even with other African tribes. Gibson would be too ignorant to accept such a tribal/cultural notion being from the Bay area where “everyone loves anything that’s “light, bright or close to white.” Being “whiter-than-white” is the Bay area’s black person’s color and culture of choice. While Gibson faults S.A.’s, she fails to see why they didn’t like her—if I saw her stranded on an Oakland highway, I wouldn’t pick her up either—even if she were wrapped from head-to-toe in $100 bills. It’s obvious that her mama taught her well how to be stupid.

In fact, Gibson reminds me of the typical black dyke from the Bay area—I’m sure she says the same as most of them: “Ah loves me some white womens.” In S.A., both thoughts are an abomination, but to Gibson, I’m sure that’s why she didn’t like it over there (things are not always as they appear). South Africans or any Africans wouldn’t countenance such flagrant behavior publicly. AmeriKKKans like Gibson need to keep their trashy morals over here—quit trying to spread their garbage around the world to so-called “third” world countries (even though they were “first” world countries before the white man stole everything from their civilizations and started the “third world” lie). She reminds me of Henry Louis Gates when he made a PBS documentary about his family’s journey to Africa. It was absolutely insulting and astounding that he would take his white wife and their children to Ghana and not be able to notice the shock registered on the faces of the Africans.

Most Africans consider themselves superior to white folks morally, intellectually, spiritually, etc. (they also feel the same way about black AmeriKKKans). To date or marry a white peson is an abomination. Gates like Gibson, as brainwashed niggers from AmeriKKKa (esp. project, ghetto and country Southern niggers with very low self-esteem are usually the ones who do that sort of thing to “move up” in stature) are totally oblivious to the fact that real Africans can “read between the lines” and tell “real shit from bullshit.” Gibson’s article and her “experiences” in S.A. are bullshit to the third power. It’s basically ghetto, low-class “nigger shit” perpetrating as an “authentic African experience.” Africans don’t want unrighteous people like her in Africa—I’d rather deal with a white snake if I’m going to get bit—at least I can see him coming. Black snakes like Gibson and those of her ilk will get real close, pretend to be “one of the tribe” and then bite you.

George Clinton’s film (Cosmic Slop?) about what would happen if blacks left AmeriKKKa en masse is equivalent to them returning to Africa. White folks don’t want that so they have niggers like Gibson and rags like the Globe perpetuating anti-African propaganda. Remaining here is like a battered wife staying with her wife-beating husband because he pays the bills and “we have a nice house and car.” Finally, only low-class, immoral, simple-minded, uneducated and ignorant Africans would “look up” to blacks in AmeriKKKa. There’s nothing to emulate even in the so-called “best” of them. Most are highly-paid slaves who will sell their souls for a little bit of this world’s success (Clarence “Uncle” sThomp-us, Justice Leah “Lynch-em-high” Sears, “Conda-sleazy” Rice, “Colon” Powell, “Psycho” Ward CONnerly, Ken “pimp-daddy” Hamblin, Master P and all the sell-out ghetto drug-dealing [c]rappers). The immorality of blacks here has gotten just as bad as white folks’ immorality. We’re doing it all and won’t even be ashamed of any of it. Of all things, you put this trash in the “Education” section of your newspaper. Shame, shame, shame. I wonder how much “y’all” are getting paid to spread this propaganda as widely as a whore can spread her legs. After 400 years in AmeriKKKa, do you see any black faces on our money? We don’t even have a “Chinatown” area or a concentration of black-owned businesses like on Fruitvale. Why? Because jealous, insecure, immoral, lying, cheating and stealing people can’t form productive relationships with each other—the black community like Gibson/Globe has a morality problem that was manifested in the DNA (dem no-good ancestors). You betray even an integral part of yourself: your Africanness. How many Irishmen would go to Ireland and come back “trashing” it? Have you heard of any Italians, Englishmen, Swedes or Frenchmen trashing their native countries? NO!! That’s something especially reserved for niggers like Gibson, Gates and the Globe. It’s a nigger thang; as an African, I can’t understand it. Are there savages in Africa? Yes, but that’s because they choose to remain so. That’s between them and GOD.

Gibson, keep that false arrogance contained within the U.S. Please, don’t go back to Africa, they probably are glad you left. I’ll take your place and I will be proud to speak the language with MY PEOPLE. They are NOT your peeps—stay in your low class: you’re West African. We’re tribal—that’s OUR prerogative!! Keep your Western sentiments to yourself and out of Africa—you’re uncivilized and immoral in your so-called “first” world “civilization.” Africans treat black AmeriKKKans just like blacks treat whites; they are too polite to discuss certain things in mixed company. Most blacks here have lost their souls and they are cursed because their ancestors betrayed their brothers; they are also cursed because of their idolatrous, evil ways (from a spiritual standpoint, that’s why you were put in slavery—you still practice voodoo and haven’t learned your lesson YET). The fact that you think that because you’re from the U.S. that you can educate Africans is, in itself, a sardonic joke! That’s like an Irish potato farmer trying to tell George Washington Carver how to cultivate a crop to avoid a famine. Keep your mess and messed-up, psychotic mind OUT OF AFRICA. I know Africans who are so educated, they could send you back into your mother’s womb and have you coming out looking as pretty as Lauren Hill instead of M’Shell Ndeglecello (sp?) with hair or Whoopie Goldberg without dreads. They’re ugly too and ugliness is to the soul—stay out of Africa, especially South Africa. We don’t take insults lightly, so please take this in the spirit of vitriol for which it is meant.

With South African pride,


Rose Izazi James, J.D.
roseizazijames1@ hotmail.com

cc: The Globe (via e-mail)

P.S. In the same edition, there are pictures of Wandra Boyd and Mo’Nique (a/k/a Mo’Niqqer--who are ugly) and Desley Brooks, Damien Key and Rep. Barbara Lee (who are pretty—take a tip from these people as to how you should look when presenting yourself in the printed media).

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