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Unfamiliar with "Nigger in a woodpile" idiom, can anyone explain?

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/10/completely-unacce...
startling water buffalo
  07/10/17
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114734&mc=1...
awkward dark twinkling uncleanness range
  07/10/17
The link confirms the existence of the idiom, but does not e...
startling water buffalo
  07/10/17
just watch the vid
awkward dark twinkling uncleanness range
  07/10/17
I did there is a woodpile with a nigger in it, but I suspect...
startling water buffalo
  07/10/17
https://youtu.be/cooncA2iVMA Reference :50
thriller alpha digit ratio
  07/10/17
It's almost resembles self reflection, but it's just narciss...
startling water buffalo
  07/10/17
Yeah, it is addressed to blacks at the end it seems tho
thriller alpha digit ratio
  07/10/17
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2321539&mc=2...
vibrant theater stage
  07/10/17
Is it similar to brass tacks?
Ebony fragrant resort
  07/10/17
?
startling water buffalo
  07/11/17
"Nigger in the woodpile" or "nigger in the fe...
Rabbi Nahasapeemapetilon
  10/01/25
Ty
Guarding of the Brit
  10/01/25
An African somewhere in a (usually Southern) person's ancest...
habeas penem
  10/01/25


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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:25 PM
Author: startling water buffalo

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/10/completely-unacceptable-mp-apologises-after-woodpile-remarks/

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:26 PM
Author: awkward dark twinkling uncleanness range

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114734&mc=103&forum_id=2

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:36 PM
Author: startling water buffalo

The link confirms the existence of the idiom, but does not explain it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2Ã#33745271)



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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:52 PM
Author: awkward dark twinkling uncleanness range

just watch the vid

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:55 PM
Author: startling water buffalo

I did there is a woodpile with a nigger in it, but I suspect it's a reference to something predating the cartoon.

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:39 PM
Author: thriller alpha digit ratio

https://youtu.be/cooncA2iVMA

Reference :50

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:44 PM
Author: startling water buffalo

It's almost resembles self reflection, but it's just narcissism.

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:56 PM
Author: thriller alpha digit ratio

Yeah, it is addressed to blacks at the end it seems tho

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:43 PM
Author: vibrant theater stage

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2321539&mc=20&forum_id=2

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Date: July 10th, 2017 7:55 PM
Author: Ebony fragrant resort

Is it similar to brass tacks?

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Date: July 11th, 2017 1:32 AM
Author: startling water buffalo

?

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Date: October 1st, 2025 1:36 AM
Author: Rabbi Nahasapeemapetilon (✅🍑)

"Nigger in the woodpile" or "nigger in the fence" is a figure of speech originating in the United States meaning "some fact of considerable importance that is not disclosed—something suspicious or wrong".[1]

The phrase means an unknown factor, something that causes things to turn out differently than would normally be assumed. Woodpiles used to be stacked loosely with spaces, to avoid rot (see illustration) and were presented by racists as natural hiding places for Black people, where they could either nap (fitting the stereotype of the lazy Black man) or spy on their White neighbors.

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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:02 AM
Author: Guarding of the Brit

Ty

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Date: October 1st, 2025 8:13 AM
Author: habeas penem

An African somewhere in a (usually Southern) person's ancestry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3671144&forum_id=2Ã#49316851)