[lbo-talk] Nader: Obama an Uncle Tom

[James Heartfield]

Since Nader is Arab-American, maybe you should ask him whether Uncle Tom is what he meant to say. I read in the papers today that Obama was often taunted as an Uncle Tom, or a 'white man in black face' by African Americans when he was in the state senate in Illinois. It is not an argument I would make (because it never struck me that there was anything about being black that made anyone more correct), but it is a part of the political discourse.