See, stuff like this is why I sometimes have a problem with the media . Is the racial epithet really the headline material here? Shouldn’t it be more like Terrorist Psycho Unmoved By Election Results: Says, “I Thought I Told You That We Won’t Stop.”
It’d be different if al-Zawahiri called him something harsher and followed it up with, “You know, I’ve never liked black people. I just might put out a hit on the entire race.” That’s some shit I need to see in the headline (in no small part because certain elements in America might hear that news and say, “Well gol-damn, dem ol’ terrorist boys may not be so bad after all.”) Highlighting al-Zawahiri’s use of the term “house negro” is like running a headline saying Satan Calls Jewish People Greedy in an article where he also reveals himself as the cause of all human misery. Sure the terminology’s offensive, but it’s Satan. Is this a surprise? Isn’t the continuing hostility of a known madman the real news here?
The headline makes it sound like al-Zawahiri is a corporate exec who let an n-bomb slip around the wrong people. Like he’s going to hold a press conference later talking about, “I deeply regret my choice of words. It was obviously inappropriate. Clearly I was mistaken in thinking that prefacing the word with ’What’s up my’ would make it acceptable, and I apologize to anyone who I offended. I’m not a racist. I’ve slept with many, many black women. I would marry Beyonce in an instant. Rhianna too. And Terrence Howard. Oh wait…”
The basic gist of the article is, “al-Zawahiri calls Obama a house negro. And it looks like he still wants to kill everybody, too.” Maybe I’m nuts, but the latter seems more critical than the former. I just can’t imagine that Obama heard al-Zawahiri’s recording and responded like, “What did that motherfucker just say?”
“He insinuated an escalation in violence if we increase the number of troops in Afghani–”
“No, no, no, before that. The shit about me being a house negro. Do my ears deceive or is he basically calling me a sell out? Is he calling me an Uncle Tom? Is Barack Obama gonna have to choke a bitch?”
“Uh… no sir, I doubt you’re gonna have to. You can certainly choose to, though. You are going to be President after all…”
“Right, right. Thanks for the clarification, that’s why I keep you around Steve. So, I guess this all boils down to America’s relationship with Al-Qaida remaining unchanged?”
“That’s pretty much it, sir.”
“Thought so.”
