[lbo-talk] Ralph: Obama an Uncle Tom?

[John Thornton]

James Heartfield wrote:
> It wasn't that bad a choice of words, and a reasonable political point. Uncle Tom to the corporations that run the system, he said. It might sound like race-baiting, if you are of a mind to read it that way, but I don't think it was.

Are you joking or clueless?
Perhaps as a Brit you don't realize that calling Obama an Uncle Tom is 
hugely ugly?
Maybe it has different social baggage in the UK?
Not as bad a ni**er but not too far off either.

John Thornton