“Why I Love America” By Kola Boof

[theworldismine13]

Kola Boof is Osama Bin Ladens wife or lover or something like that



“Why I Love America” By Kola Boof

Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist and poet Kola Boof has been an agent for Sudan’s SPLA and was the National Chairwoman of the U.S. Branch of the Sudanese Sensitization Peace Project. She has written for television and her many books include, “Flesh and the Devil,” “Long Train to the Redeeming Sin,” “Nile River Woman” and “Virgins In the Beehive.” She blogs at Kola Boof. com

I don’t know of any Americans who’ve ever spent most of their day bent down on the ground trying to catch mice to eat. I’ve certainly never had to do it. But in North Korea, some five hundred thousand people live in Concentration Camps. They are families imprisoned for nothing more than questioning the government or failing to properly worship the official “God” of that nation—President Kim Jong-Il.

And yes, in North Korea, it is required that the people worship their leader as a religious God. He is also President for life and within the network of the North Korean government’s concentration camps overrun with children these families wither to bones, are worked to death and literally hunt for mice and insects to eat on the floors and grounds. The death rate is very high. Another three million North Korean citizens are dying or have died due to a severe famine that has crippled that nation because of their God-Dictator leader and his refusal to spend foreign aid on the citizens. Another three hundred thousand North Koreans have committed the nation’s second highest crime—they have escaped across the border to China; a crime punishable by death. And to my shock, the Chinese government captures most of these “illegal aliens” and refuses them “political asylum” knowing full well that by returning them to Korea—they are handing them over to be executed. These runaways are often whole families or women and children. Without a second thought, they murder thousands of innocent children each year in North Korea simply because their parent tried to escape the horrible conditions of the country.

These hellish realities exist in many countries, including my own birth country, Sudan, where we have genocide, slavery and unbelievable religious and sexual persecution. In the Congo, Somalia, Mauritania…government sponsored evil and corruption never ends. And it’s for these reasons that I often feel “guilty” when American citizens and fellow political activists sit around talking about the evils that America commits.

“America is the White Devil!” you will often hear Black activists say. But coming from a country like Sudan where my birth parents were murdered in front of me; a country where my lesbian Aunt was imprisoned for “witch craft” (a term they use in place of saying homosexuality); a country where women can be arrested for wearing pants; a country where I witnessed husbands setting wives on fire for failing to produce sons; women stoned to death; a country mangled by Religious-run government, Sharia Courts and mired in poverty…it’s very hard for me to say that American government is the worst evil on earth. To the contrary, I feel America is the best place to live.

Many activists who insist America is the world’s great Satan criticize me for admitting that I relate more to the American government on certain issues such as terrorism and the Middle East (like most Black-skinned North Africans, I support Israel). In lieu of my complaints about the F.B.I. and the NSA’s surveillance over me (I wrote yesterday of their harassment due to me being a controversial and suspicious person), my fellow activists expect me to all-out curse this nation. But I can’t.

What I would like to do is ask you to see it from the perspective of an immigrant person for just a few minutes.

In America, when you have sex with a man—he cares whether or not you experience orgasm. In fact, among American men, it’s a requirement for their egos that they make females orgasm during sex. Nowhere else in the world have ever seen people so committed to the idea of women “enjoying” sex and receiving pleasure from it. It’s a very American concept and it came in to being because of the Feminist movement here at the end of the 1960’s. A sexual revolution emerged and women in America demanded to be “eaten.”

In America, I also have the right to report a rape. My attacker may never be prosecuted, but in this country, I can report that I’ve been raped without fear of police beating or being jailed for making the accusation. In America, the laws protect women in millions of ways unheard of in other countries. As a female, I can own property in America! I can start my own business!

Then they have sewage systems over here. You don’t have to smell urine and stench all day. The cities are clean and every child has shoes! Sure, the planet has been raped so that America could have this kind of wealthy infrastructure—but tell me what other nation of men are not also attempting to rape the planet in order to gain such comforts? It seems to me that war, destruction and rape are just things that men do. America is no more guilty than the rest of them—America is just hated for being the most successful at it. Think of this hideous country China. Look at the great billions and billions of dollars they have—yet their people live under horrific human rights abuses. So how can we say that America is the devil?

Then there is the social freedom. If a woman wants to work and study in America, there is no stigma. She is not a “man-hating lesbian” or a “subversive” just for studying to be an air pilot or a nurse.

Several years ago, my husband, a Belizian-born Black man, left me because I refused to give up my career. My Black American friend Anthony (Ant) said that he found it hard to believe that a man would leave a good woman just because she got “a job.” But therein shows the dramatic difference between Americans and people who live in societies where wives are basically servants, mules and property. Not that my Belizian husband wasn’t a good man. He was the best man; a wonderful husband and father. But still, he and his entire family found it disrespectful and an attack on his manhood that I had a career. He now lives with the secretary I hired for him—but he made her give up her job in order to be his girlfriend!

These are the reasons that I so love America and feel very loyal and sympathetic to this government. I’m not saying that I agree with or support all of the government’s positions. But I still find myself constantly amazed at how much “say-so” the people have; how we are allowed to publicly yell at politicians—how there is always an investigation into the government’s actions! You just don’t see that in other countries.

I often wish that other Americans would be forced to live for several years in a foreign country like Sudan, Mexico, Jordan or India. I think then they would know why it’s so hard for me to claim that America is the devil.

 

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Man, I love America but I hate this "look at how much worse it can be" argument, when we fail to mention "look at how much better it can be".

We are failing behind in a lot of key areas.

These kids can't even do fukking math and science in this country anymore.

 

[Gallo]

 

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[MBwithadream]

Vulgar, just vulgar.

 

[Serious]

Cool article I agree to a certain degree. There's definitely a lot more ready opportunities to become successful in America, than what meets the eye, look at the people becoming famous / wealthy, from having virtually no talent or skill, heck sex sales. Kim K couldn't f*ck worth a damn in her sex tape it is what it is.......

 

[theworldismine13]

Man, I love America but I hate this "look at how much worse it can be" argument, when we fail to mention "look at how much better it can be".

We are failing behind in a lot of key areas.

These kids can't even do fukking math and science in this country anymore.

that is true also

 

[Type Username Here]

Vulgar, just vulgar.

You should be deported.

 

[Gallo]

Seriously though, haven't read the article but I don't need too. I feel just like she feels. Just got back today from a week traveling (Mexico, France). When I got back into an American airport I almost shed a tear. Happens almost every time I return from traveling. Seeing the naval battleships patrolling our waters from the sky - Love this country. Love the southern racist crackas. Love the ignorant inner city blacks. Love the oblivious waspy urbanites. Love the picture perfect suburban families. Love the crazy politics. Our roads, bridges, tunnels. Our ignorance and our brilliance. Our consumerism and enterprise. The women, our music, our fashion, our sports, our television(I don't watch much TV but the show Community was showing on my flight).

The good and the bad, fukking love it.

 

[Type Username Here]

Seriously though, haven't read the article but I don't need too. I feel just like she feels. Just got back today from a week traveling (Mexico, France). When I got back into an American airport I almost shed a tear. Happens almost every time I come back from traveling. Love this country. Love the southern racist crackas. Love the ignorant inner city blacks. Love the oblivious waspy urbanites. Love the picture perfect suburban families. Love the crazy politics. Our roads, bridges tunnels. Our ignorance and our brilliance. Our consumerism and enterprise. The women, our music, our television(I don't watch much TV but the show Community was showing on my flight).

The good and the bad, fukking love it.

Damn breh. That was poetic.

Don't forget that America gave the world the internet, personal computers, phones, intercontinental ballistic missiles, NASA, Reese's Pieces, the world's entire popular culture, films, popular musical genres, automobiles, the concept of labor laws, Gallagher, the world's best athletes, pornography, Game of Thrones, comic books, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, bacon cheeseburgers, McRib, The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Langston Hughes, Dr. King, the greatest academic universities in the world, SOHH, The-coli, Chinese Food and Nasir Jones.

Did I forget anything?

Edit: Drone Strikes and spoil-free milk.

 

[Gallo]

Damn breh. That was poetic.

Don't forget that America gave the world the internet, personal computers, phones, intercontinental ballistic missiles, NASA, Reese's Pieces, the world's entire popular culture, films, popular musical genres, automobiles, the concept of labor laws, Gallagher, the world's best athletes, pornography, Game of Thrones, comic books, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, bacon cheeseburgers, McRib, The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Langston Hughes, Dr. King, the greatest academic universities in the world, SOHH, The-coli, Chinese Food and Nasir Jones.

Did I forget anything?

Edit: Drone Strikes and spoil-free milk.

That's my country

 

[Type Username Here]

That's my country

Well, we did have the Soviets to fight an entire war on the Eastern front in Europe and the French saved our asses in the Revolutionary War.

But fukk them. This isn't about them.

In the 40s, we pushed the Japanese's shyt all the way back like LL Cool J's hairline. Thanks to America's greatest invention, the United States Marine Corps.

 

[Gallo]

Well, we did have the Soviets to fight an entire war on the Eastern front in Europe and the French saved our asses in the Revolutionary War.

But fukk them. This isn't about them.

In the 40s, we pushed the Japanese's shyt all the way back like LL Cool J's hairline. Thanks to America's greatest invention, the United States Marine Corps.