Posted on 06/17/2005 6:23:41 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
If Ralph Nader doesn't stop dropping the N-bomb, Al Sharpton is going to wash out his mouth with soap.
"Nader is not a racist by any stretch of the imagination," Sharpton told me yesterday. "He has a good track record. But he ought to be sensitive that he does not sanitize that word."
Speaking Wednesday night at a Washington fund-raiser to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign, Nader complained that Democratic Party powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states as Georgia and Virginia - which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws that denied African-Americans equal rights.
"I felt like a [n-word]," remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Washington gadfly Evan Gahr reported Nader's comments on his chimpstein.com Web site.
"If Ed Koch had said what Ralph Nader said, we'd be marching," Sharpton noted. "This [scolding] doesn't rise to the level of a march. It rises to the level of a wrist slap."
Yesterday, Nader told me he was using the word in the same spirit as the Black Panthers of the 1960s - "as a word of defiance."
But Sharpton retorted: "He's not a Black Panther."
Democratic operative Harold Ickes - a former civil rights activist who lost a kidney in 1965 after being beaten to a pulp by white racists in Tallulah, La. - was also troubled by Nader's use of the epithet.
"It's not something that I would say," Ickes told me yesterday. "Having grown up in the 1950s and 1960s, I think it's not a word that whites can use.
"It's unfortunate and he may regret it."
Nader is just telling it like it is. Sharpton is a paid man of the rat party. If only Sharpton could have heard the conversation I heard between two black girls on the train going home. Sheesh.
Fill me in.
I wrote about it in detail on my blogspot but it was just really disgusting. Two very pretty girls just saying the word out loud for everyone to hear as if the train was their own little universe. Too much gangsta rap influence imho.
I honestly thought this thread was going to be about environmentalists and Nuclear energy.
overdue tagline change
Unless they're Democrats.
Meanwhile, every good liberal insists that censoring the f-word is the first step on the slippery slope to Auschwitz.
I was thinking the same thing.
So Rev. Al admits the he alone is the arbiter of who can use which words. Interesting.
This explains the lack of black support for Nader in the last two elections. Otherwise he was just so appealing.
I thinke whites need a word blacks can't use. Maybe there is one or more already?
But I really do apprecicate getting the double standard clearly in print. This is something we can refer to on a regular basis.
I always thought the word Blacks shouldn't use is "redneck" or "cracker"
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