Saturday, April 22, 2006

The House Muslim


This deserved a post of its own - sub Muslim for Negro from the following Malcolm quote and you can see how his words still apply in this era coz we've still got plenty of house Muslims running around today.

Classic stuff!

"There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food - what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house - quicker than the master would. If the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call them today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.


This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America, this good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.

On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes - those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there were Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get anything but what was left of the insides of the hog.

The field Negro was beaten from morning to night; he lived in a shack, in a hut; he wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master, but that field Negro - remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die."

6 Comments:

At 6:47 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 6:47 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ps: why can't we blog from this site?

 
At 6:50 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brilliant,lol.

I was just wondering what you would call those Muslims who are neither House Muslims in their love of the master, nor Field Muslims in their exclusion from the master's house, but who reside in the house, eat of the masters leftovers, but hate him to death and wish breeze on his inflamed house? (No sarcasm, I'm serious).

 
At 12:37 a.m., Blogger Abu Abdullah said...

what do you mean by "blog from this site"? I will try and remedy it but don't know exactly what it is.

As for your other comment, very thought-provoking. To me its like this - we are all Muslims in the West, the majority of us are field Muslims; those house Muslims who reside in the house, eat the leftovers but hate the master to death - well, their actions speak louder than their words, or in this case, their feelings. By remaining within the master's house yet refusing to use that strategic position to do what is necessary to liberate ALL the Muslims (house and field), those house Muslims expose their own cowardice and hypocracy. If they hate the master so much but refuse to do anything about it, they are just fooling themselves and have some serious identity problems.

Simply, they ain't nothing but house Muslims!!

 
At 3:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1760340,00.html

"The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, today warned that he could remove the Hamas government from power if it failed to "face the facts" and recognise Israel"

What system of election is used in Palestine? I didn't know Abbas could remove Hamas from government after they've been elected.

 
At 3:15 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Simply, they ain't nothing but house Muslims!!"

I get it. I had imagined the field Muslims as those in majority Muslim countries and the house Muslims as us in the UK and the West.

Now, I'm imagining the house Muslims as those in the government and the resident-opposition-slaves as the 'educated non-masses'- lawyers, doctors, people of influence.

No, it's okay. I just checked, you can only 'blogit' from msn spaces, I think. Thanks though.

Wassalam

 

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