Issue Four
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What do you say to those who are moved by your story but question the facts? What “proof” would you point to if asked to present it?
Well, the fact is, I wrote my life story as honestly as I could, mainly for myself, to leave a record of what happened to me and who I am, and once it was completed, I felt enormous relief and empowerment. So I really don't care whether people believe it or not. I don't spend much time trying to convince them, but the so called "proof" was presented all throughout the book. Anyone can research my story, because I left tonnes of p laces for them to start.
As for how I dealt immediately with my parent's death, I would loathe someone who expected me to prove my reaction to it. I thought it was big of me to share it...and that's enough.
Blacks enslave blacks, Arabs enslave blacks, white enslave blacks. These facts almost make one start wondering about the myth of the Curse of Ham. Why do you think blacks are most often on the side of the enslaved?
Because Blacks were the first humans and they started slavery in the first place. It has nothing to do with any Curse from Ham. The East Africans created whole legions of Black people who were raised and conditioned to believe in slavery as a noble innate genetic state of being, and because the Blacks have the least respect for their own humanity and hate their mother's image--they are the least respected and valued by everyone else. Self-hate does not breed pity.
It's like a black woman putting a blond wig on her head and bleaching her skin and then not understanding why people feel as though they've been invited to spit on her.
Kill the Queen, the Nest dies.
This is why people celebrate the black man constantly placing the white man's mother above his own mother--because in the white woman's womb, he is obliterated. This is how they wiped the Moors off the face of the earth and it's how Egypt fell. As usual, African people never learn from their history. They just repeat it over and over.
When you say “black” woman, what do you mean? And why is it so important.
I mean the indigenous, dark black African woman with nappy hair and some version of African facial features--be they Ethiopian, Negroid, Nilotic or Bantu. This is important, because the black woman is not a white woman dipped in chocolate. Of course it's important to know the face of one's own mother.
Your mother, Mommysweet once told you “Mystery …is a woman's chariot.” However, in your autobiography, you tell all and damn the consequences. Your mother barely spoke, while you are the exact opposite. In the book, you say you are a product of your father. How do you think you take after your mother? And what do you think your mother would say about your autobiography?
I don't take after Mommysweet. I'm sure she would feel that I am "mannish" in my self-importance and vulgarity, and that it's wrong for women to be writing books. She would not be impressed, and yet--there is some secret part of her stare that would be rooting for me...with astonishment.
Your autobiography is a hefty book. It carries your essence within its pages. How does it feel when people question the authenticity of your story?
It enrages me, of course, but then again--few of my detractors have actually read anything I've written. Their put downs come from the fear of bitter truths being exposed. They make accusations, but no one ever asks them to prove their claims. Only I am asked. But I could give a shit--because I don't see anyone in America who is any more authentic than me. This whole nation is a lie and the people in it are as phony as the preservatives in apple pie. Few here are as powerful as I am--because they aren't willing to know truth, and don't have my talent for dressing it up, which is what a good artist does.
In your book, you say that your father chose your mother because she was so dark and fundamentally African. Couldn't this be a sort of reverse form of colourism? Or a form of self-hate on your father's part? And why is nothing problematic about it?
Of course it's self-hate on his part. He became a heroin addict, because he had discovered that he'd been separated from his own race-due to the belief that White blood cures blackness.
There will be millions in America to feel the agony of his experience in the coming decades. Longing for wholeness, but trapped in pale white bodies. Bastardized and punished because of a previous ancestor's hatred for blackness.
It's not natural for a village of Black people to produce mostly white children. One or two is a good thing, but not a whole tribe as we have here in California. When you do so--the ancestors curse those children and they curse the creators of them. Which is part of why Blacks are enslaved and colonized. They embrace and continue the evil of their invaders rather than abolish it.
The light skinned child that they thought would symbolize wealth and status...becomes proof....of their inferiority.
How did infibulation affect your life? What was your mother and father's reasons for having it done? How did infibulation affect you during childbirth? How did you remain “intact” after you gave birth to your children?
Infibulation brings terrible pain and discomfort to a woman's daily living--for life--as her vagina and muscles are rearranged for the purpose of men's sexual gratifications. Of course, it's done to supposedly make a woman "pure" and to ensure her chastity. Naturally, in America, I had C-sections to produce my children.
Where can I find information about the pyramids of the Sudan and how they have been covered with an artificial lake by The British and the Egyptians?
Henry Louis Gates did a whole documentary about it. You can look up "Lake Nuba" and the "opposition" to it. Much has been written about it.
In your book, you say that your preferred medium is film but since you can't find funding, you write novels. What do you think of films like Big Mama's House 2 and the plight of black films and black people in films?
Films like Big Mama's House highlight the epic hatred that Black men have for their race and for black women. If you can so easily ridicule and use to the womb of your beginning as a vehicle for disgust, inviting outsiders to laugh and berate your own mother---all because you want to be accepted and popular--then that's the same as selling your own mother into slavery. And that's what a film like Big Mama's House represents. The hopeless buffoon whose inferiority is proven by his contempt for his own mother.
What do you think about the controversy behind the satirical Mohammed cartoons?
I think the Muslims are right. And I only wish that Black people had such lofty standards and were as vocal about Eminem's comments about black women and Kanye West 's song "Golddiggers", which basically asserts that Black women are golddiggers--but not the white man's mother--as at the end of the song, he's supposedly leaving the black golddigger for "a" white woman. Not any specific one, but for "a" white woman. After Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan paid out so many millions to White golddiggers--I find that the popularity of that song to be a horrible slander against all black women. These messages matter greatly, but most Westerners have no standards and hold nothing sacred.
What does lion's meat taste like? Why did Osama object to you eating it on the night you met him in the restaurant?
Lion's meat tastes like Shark--like a very lean, juicy steak. Osama was just throwing his weight around, because he doesn't generally like meat.
Did you ever tell Osama bin Laden about what happened to your parents? Why or why not? And if so, how did her react?
I did tell Osama, and like most Africans, he wasn't moved. This is not a unique story in Africa--only to westerners is it fantastic and different. But in North Africa, this is endemic of the war zones.
Do you think Osama bin Laden is a hypocrite? Do you think you're a hypocrite?
Of course we're hypocrites on some level. We're human beings. The white slavemaster in America didn't consider blacks equally human, but had no problem raping and carrying on with black slave women. These men had babies with these women, but were never to be suspected or questioned. I don't know why people are so shocked to hear that Catholic Priests and Osama Bin Laden are having sexual experiences outside their religious doctrine. Men have always carried on like this--but I am not about to end up like Sally Hemmings or Pocahontas. I am not going to be portrayed 100 years from now in a love story with Bin Laden. Unlike those women, I left a record of what happened.
Have you been interviewed or interrogated by the American government now that you have come out with this information about being his mistress?
Of course. I was interrogated years ago, and this book could not have been written without permission and "clearance". For instance, there are many details that I wanted to put in the book that I don't have permission to make public.
Which language do you prefer to write in? Why?
English, because it's much more familiar to me now, and because I don't feel guilty writing nasty, hateful diatribes in English. I rather enjoy it.
How do you remain so fearless?
Knowing that life is very short and that I am going to die no matter how I feel--there isn't really time to be afraid. You have to "do" until you're "done".
