So, let me get this straight: Al-Qaeda number two man Ayman al-Zawahiri ridiculed US president-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” in an Internet audio message. Okay.
Aside from the obvious possibility (probability, in the minds of some) that this was an elaborate forgery perpetrated by Western intelligence agencies in order to deepen the wedge dividing Blacks in America from the Islamic world (not that Al Qaeda in any way represents a standard for measuring the Muslim world), what if Dr. al-Zawahiri actually said that?
Dr. al-Zawahiri is an Egyptian physician. His “boss,” Osama bin-Laden, is a wealthy Saudi Arabian construction company heir. They were never “house servants” or “field servants” in The Big House. No. They grew up enjoying all the privileges of official residents of The Big House. But, so for that matter, did Cuba’s Fidel Castro and his revolutionary companion Dr. Che Guevara. And as far as that goes, so did William Ayers, of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Weather Underground-fame. So, just being privileged at birth, per se, is no curse.
Dr. al-Zawahiri insulted President-elect Obama (who worked his way up from humble beginnings) and other prominent Black Americans who have held high office in the U.S. administration with the term used by the late Muslim Black militant Malcolm X. Brother Malcolm used the term to describe slaves he said were more loyal to their white masters than they were to their slave brothers and sisters. Slaves who would betray their own best interest–freedom from slavery–in order to hold on the comforts they received living in the slavemaster’s house. Continue reading