# Al Quada calls Obama a "house negro"! Is it "on"?! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486 "2008-11-19T18:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/21 "2008-11-20T04:33:12Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > The bad part is that I have yet to see a denouncement of this statement from the Arab world. How can this be? Err…what **Sailboat** said. The “Arab world” has nothing to apologize for in this context. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/22 "2008-11-20T05:06:22Z")
> [@](#): > > The bad part is that I have yet to see a denouncement of this statement from the Arab world. How can this be? They’re circulating the petition but it’s going to take a few days to get all three hundred million signatures. It would be so much simpler if the Arab world would just appoint somebody as its spokesman. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/23 "2008-11-20T10:40:22Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > Obama doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy to let some cave dwelling troll get his goat. Tsk-tsk. You know your folklore. The troll **never** gets the goat! ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/24 "2008-11-20T10:44:45Z")
Terrorists say something designed to annoy the people they’re actively trying to terrorize? Well I never! Whatever next? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/25 "2008-11-20T17:39:01Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > I must have missed something. Since when do we care what AQ calls us? woaah!! hold on a second! …what do you mean “we” White Man? ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/26 "2008-11-20T21:01:05Z")
I’m a bit gobsmacked that the AQ folks think that throwing around lame taunts like a 12-year-old schoolyard bully is going to “terrorize” anyone. Or impress anyone. Or make anyone think much else other than “what are you, 12?” I mean seriously, name-calling? This warrants the equivalent attention of a patronizing smile and a pat on the head. If that. While in the meantime the grown-ups go back to making plans to take their toys away. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/27 "2008-11-20T21:09:26Z")
This reads almost like a headline from **The Onion** What a strange thing to do, makes them look like a foolish group of keystone terrorists. What possible good did they think it would do? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/28 "2008-11-20T22:17:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Mil: “He called you a House N----r, Sir.” Actually, literally, they called him a “house slave”, and in the al-Qaeda provided translation, a “house Negro”. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/29 "2008-11-20T22:22:43Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Actually, literally, they called him a “house slave”, and in the al-Qaeda provided translation, a “house Negro”. According to [Col](http://www.aqoul.com/archives/2008/11/house_niggers_o.php), “house nigger” might actually be a bit closer to the truth, though it’s apparently fudgeable. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/30 "2008-11-20T22:40:51Z")
I think they really misjudge the popularity of Malcolm X. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/31 "2008-11-20T22:58:57Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > House Negro. > Heh. > Who here thinks that Osama Bin Laden will suddenly turn up before GWB is out of office, making everything right as rain for the Republicans. > > Anyone? > Bueller? Better odds that W tries that, & muffs it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/32 "2008-11-20T23:03:02Z")
Oh, it’s on baby. He’s family. Only I get to call him “house negro.” It is on, mother fuckers. Of course, it’s been on for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/33 "2008-11-21T00:22:59Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > According to [Col](http://www.aqoul.com/archives/2008/11/house_niggers_o.php), “house nigger” might actually be a bit closer to the truth, though it’s apparently fudgeable. Vindication is sweet, even if my intent was Poetic License. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/34 "2008-11-21T01:19:19Z")
If I were Obama, I’d take it as a compliment-coming from Al-fucking-Quada. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/35 "2008-11-21T01:33:25Z")
Isn’t it amazing that most of the Arab world thinks this way? Why is that? Whitie voted for the black guy. They just don’t get it yet. We have way more in common with the black guy than we will ever have with you. You treat your women like shit and you don’t use toilet paper. Shut the fuck up. Join the 21st Century. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/36 "2008-11-21T01:36:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If I were Obama, I’d take it as a compliment-coming from Al-fucking-Quada. Say what? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/37 "2008-11-21T02:29:52Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > Isn’t it amazing that most of the Arab world thinks this way? Why is that? Whitie voted for the black guy. They just don’t get it yet. We have way more in common with the black guy than we will ever have with you. > You treat your women like shit and you don’t use toilet paper. Shut the fuck up. > > Join the 21st Century. You seem to have confused al-Qaeda with most of the Arab world. [Obama favored in Key Muslim countries.](http://www.muslimwestfacts.com/mwf/111292/Obama-Favored-Key-Muslim-Countries.aspx) > [@](#): > > BEIRUT, Lebanon – Gallup Polls conducted in May-August 2008 in six predominantly Muslim countries show that public interest in who wins the U.S. presidential election ranges from comparatively high in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon to very low in Pakistan. Those who do express a preference tend to prefer Democratic candidate Barack Obama to Republican candidate John McCain by margins of at least 2-to-1. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/38 "2008-11-21T02:33:33Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > Isn’t it amazing that most of the Arab world thinks this way? Isn’t it amazing that you’re still talking despite having this explained to you twice in this very thread? ETA: Er… three times. Damn you, **GMF**! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/39 "2008-11-21T08:30:05Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > Isn’t it amazing that most of the Arab world thinks this way? Why is that? Whitie voted for the black guy. They just don’t get it yet. We have way more in common with the black guy than we will ever have with you. > You treat your women like shit and you don’t use toilet paper. Shut the fuck up. > > Join the 21st Century. There is a scale and at one end are respectful, non-trolling, non-racist people. I think most people reading this thread would like to think they are at this end of the scale. The other end of the scale is where people who are the opposite dwell. Al Quada are down there. I think you would be surprised at where most people reading this thread would place _you_. ---
**Author:** ![shallora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@shallora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shallora)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-quada-calls-obama-a-house-negro-is-it-on/473486/40 "2008-11-21T14:26:20Z")
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