[lbo-talk] Nader: not the only one to use the phrase 'Uncle Tom'

[James Heartfield]

Those leaping to defend Barack Obama from racial epithets seem to have let the same slip by when it came to Condoleezza Rice, who was called a 'House Negro' on this list http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-September/019971.html and a 'Black American Princess' http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2002/2002-December/028191.html
Marvin Gandall defended the use of 'Uncle Tom' to describe establishment blacks here http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-May/008881.html  and Doug called Juan Williams 'Uncle Tom' here http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-January/000560.html

I guess it is not the words 'Uncle Tom' that people are objecting to, but that Nader dared to criticise Obama.