Uncle Tom tho???

So I’m flipping between blogs….waiting….waiting….waiting….. I know I’m not the only one that heard it. Ralph Nader’s Uncle Tom comment.

No one said anything yet.

Well let me be the first.

What

The

Fuck

Nader!!!!!




I’m not even really sure how to approach him about this. I just have so many questions. I’ll just ask them:

1. First and foremost, what makes you think that what you said was OK? The first time in recorded history that the United States elects (by a very large margin I might add) an African-American president, you question his integrity to the American people … o wait. Let me rephrase that. You were concerned with “poor people,” not the entire country (as if “poor” people are somehow a separate nation of people) being duped because he is “simply the first African American president.” Did you not think that was rude?

2. So if Barack was of a Caucasian, what would you have said about someone with his background? Is there an Uncle Tom synonym for white folks?

3. When given the option to retract your statement after having some time to think, why didn’t you?

4. Are you aware that calling someone an Uncle Tom is racially offensive since it can only apply to people of color?

This is why people look at our country like the backwards walking piece of crap it sometimes appears to be. As much as I bitch and moan, I am an American. I know that. But sometimes some of “you people” make me so damn sick. Syntactically, I understand what he was trying to say. He’s looking at it from Barack’s “black” perspective but really Nader. Come on. You should know better.

Although we all would love to say race is not an issue, it is. Just like big vs. small boobs is an issue; short vs long hair, tall vs short girls, etc. Everything that can have an opposite, or even a difference for that matter, be it physical, economical, social, whatever, it is an issue somewhere in the world. That is something we naturally do. No worries. The problem is that we try to make it seem like it doesn’t exist so we (and when I say we I mean Nader) think we can just say whatever the hell we want because we (again, meaning Nader) think that we can always fall back on the farcical notion that race isn’t an issue.

Nader, sweetness, honey love, retract immediately before the few black friends you have turn their backs on you.