June 17, 2005
AN N-WORD DOUBLE STANDARD CONFESSION
We always knew it existed even though it was denied. Nice to see the two faced mask slip.
"I felt like a [n-word]," remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.I still marvel at the similarities between his background and that of your average Black Panther. Not! You do have to wonder if Nader understands what the Black Panther's were though. The murdering, drug crazed cons or the myth of innocent civil rights activists. Rest here.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.
Posted by Sid at June 17, 2005 01:11 AM | Race
