tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4315379806141378445.post1383085966720663716..comments2023-10-30T04:02:50.673-07:00Comments on JackRabbit Cafe: Campaign 2008 In Black & White.JohnnyRussiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762519937853743386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4315379806141378445.post-65237646364640033622008-06-25T11:03:00.000-07:002008-06-25T11:03:00.000-07:00I am a unabashed Nader supporter but not a blind l...I am a unabashed Nader supporter but not a blind loyalist. And sometimes Ralph doesn’t get it right. Consider this part of what Ralph said during the aforementioned interview…<BR/><BR/>"He wants to show that he is not a threatening . . . another politically threatening African-American politician," Nader said. "He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up."<BR/><BR/>What Ralph failed to know or understand is that Barack Obama is not creating some grand façade of false character. Obama is not a threatening white guilt wielding African-American politician by nature. He simply is what he is, a slightly left of center politician who grew up in a racially, ideologically, spiritually, and economically mixed environment. He is a little black, a little white, a little left, a little right, part Christian, part Muslim, with an absent dad, and a supportive mother. Obama is a homogenous blend that is the American dream for everyone. And that’s his appeal. So many people can relate to Obama because there is a piece of him that is a piece of them.<BR/><BR/>Obama’s very presence does say that black is beautiful and that white is beautiful and on greater scale, everyone is beautiful even my main man Ralph Nader.<BR/><BR/>TBLMISTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com