em>House Negroes - Al-Qaida leader insults Barack Obama in new video saying Obama is one of the house Negroes in the U.S. government, using a racial slur Malcolm X popularized.
The House Negroes insult came in an Al-Qaida video released today by Al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri who called Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama “abeed al-beit” or “House Negroes”.
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used the old malcolm X racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters’ house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
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November 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
If, as is generally agreed in this article, the phrase “House Negroes” is a racial epithet and insult to African Americans, why on earth would you use it as the title of the article (as well as the last paragraph, which seems deliberately insulting) , thereby repeating the offense? It is as bad as using the “N-word” in the title, while decrying the use of it in the article, except perhaps the “House-N” phrase sounds less offensive than the “N-Word” - trust me it isn’t.