"Obama is a house negro"

[Blaupanzer]

I think Chemical Ollie started this thread, just so he could use that headline. In any other context, saying that would earn him great hostility.

Incidentally, I am not sure Malcolm X would have thought that Obama becoming President fit the context of what he was calling "house negroes."

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
"House negro" doesn't instill fear, it instills a sense of "Oh, how quaint. This rat is using a term that was offensive like 60 years ago."

This "house negro" is going to be living in the most powerful house on the planet. Somehow, I don't think he gives two sh*ts what al-qeada #2 #3378599345 (I believe that's the accurate number of #2's we've killed) has to say to us from 1940.

Well, they do want to turn the clock back. I thought it was more along the lines of 600 yrs ago, though.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Incidentally, I am not sure Malcolm X would have thought that Obama becoming President fit the context of what he was calling "house negroes."

Why not? He couldn't get nominated and elected without selling out first.

[Q Classic]

Actually, the translation was more "House Slave".

THIS morning comes a typically rambling and offensive rant (transcript) from Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, on Barack Obama's election. Mr Zawahiri unfavourably compares Mr Obama to Malcolm X, while footage shows Mr Obama praying at the Western Wall. The word "crusader" comes up with dreary predictability, much as a teenager says "like".

Somehow, Mr Zawahiri is convinced that even though Mr Obama is soon to become the most powerful man in the world, he is, in Malcolm X's terminology, a "house negro", the whites' favoured slave who lived in comfort and cared for the master. Like those in Cairo and Tehran who thought that some invisible power-structure wouldn't "let" Mr Obama win the election, Mr Zawahiri seems unable to grasp the basics of democracy. So here it is, Mr Zawahiri: Mr Obama won the election. He will soon run the United States. To put it crudely, he is the master, and a lot of very powerful white people will soon be snapping to his orders.

But one quick correction. The press is incorrectly reporting—and this is of course not to defend the terrorist—that Mr Zawahiri called Mr Obama a "house negro". His use of these words has been the headline-grabber. The video shows clips of Malcolm X using the term. But Mr Zawahiri calls Mr Obama one of the "house slaves" ("a'biid al-bayt"), not "house Negro" ("zinjii al-bayt", as Malcolm X's words are translated). Mr Zawahiri is a criminal and a loon, but even so, his actual words, offensive enough, should be reported correctly.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Why do we constantly need to hear the opinion of some rat in a cave?

Because that rat in a cave took down the twin towers.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: "Obama is a house negro"



He was a Senate negro.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
I think Chemical Ollie started this thread, just so he could use that headline. In any other context, saying that would earn him great hostility. ---

Actually, in 2003 I was banned from Apolyton for one week after calling Colin Powell that, after his infamous bull**** speech at the UN. (If I had done that on CF, it would probably be for life, and on Texas-based WW2OL OTF, I would also be Dixie-Chicked from the game itself).

But I still insist on the fact that he was exactly a house negro at that moment, you could clearly see from his body language that he was very uncomfortable with telling the lies his bosses had ordered him to, but he still obeyed and did it. It's understandable that he didn't stay for the next term, and that he now endorsed Obama before the election, for political reasons, not race.

In any normal government of a Western democratic country, the defense department must follow the policy of the state (foreign)department, but in the US government of 2003, it was the other way around.

On the actual topic, the bearded bastard is probably afraid that under Obama's rule, US will finally be coming for him, and seriously mean it, instead of the Iraq diversion.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Because that rat in a cave took down the twin towers.

Believe it or not, that isn't relevant. Every time he or another douchebag Twitters, is it absolutely vital we the public hear about it? Howsabout the intelligence agencies just keep this sh*t to themselves (and the media stop acting like a bunch of tweenage girls every time David Archuleta croons) and deal with any USEFUL information that comes out of it. "House negro" isn't code for "we nuke DC in five" so it is yet again, as Pekka said, another cry for attention that we're abligingly giving him. Howsabout we just give him a missile up his ass instead? I don't want to see video of him and his thoughts on the latest issue of Vogue, I want to see video of the cave blowing up with him in it.

[Dr Strangelove]

Well, someone needs to clue him into the fact that only a brother or sister is allowed to use the "N" word. I would strongly advise al-Qaeda from going outside after dark in L.A., Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, or N.Y.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


Actually, in 2003 I was banned from Apolyton for one week after calling Colin Powell that, after his infamous bull**** speech at the UN. (If I had done that on CF, it would probably be for life, and on Texas-based WW2OL OTF, I would also be Dixie-Chicked from the game itself).

But I still insist on the fact that he was exactly a house negro at that moment, you could clearly see from his body language that he was very uncomfortable with telling the lies his bosses had ordered him to, but he still obeyed and did it. It's understandable that he didn't stay for the next term, and that he now endorsed Obama before the election, for political reasons, not race.

Just out of curiosity - what would you have called CP if he had been a white acting the same way ?

[Chemical Ollie]

Moran, dork, useful idiot, whatever

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Moran, dork, useful idiot, whatever

Well, that is probably a fair description of a politician, but why won't you use that on a black person ? Why does he have to be a "house negro" ?

[Chemical Ollie]

Because he obeys his white masters, despite his own political will

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Because he obeys his white masters, despite his own political will

Black people doesn't have their own political views and obeys their white masters

Swedish racism at it's worst

[Chemical Ollie]

In case of the UN speech, it was true