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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Nader: not the only one to use the phrase 'Uncle Tom'
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 3:54 PM
> 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.
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