Ralph Nader and his civil rights banner…
Okay, before I give up the goods on our newest bass-ackwards cracker-bread hero sandwich of a politician talking his shit… (sorry if I bounce from eloquence to profanity and back again… but this ticked me off!)
Let me fill my folk in on a little back story. This comes from ABC News online:
Nader: Obama Not Black Prez He Hoped For
August 06, 2008
ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader ripped Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on Wednesday, saying that the presumptive Democratic nominee would not make the kind of African-American president that he and other members of the civil rights movement worked to make possible.
“People who have fought the civil rights battle — politically, economically, legally — as we have since the 50’s would often talk about, ‘Look what would happen if we had an African-American president or chairpersons of major congressional committees,’” said Nader. “It doesn’t look like it’s going to be what we all thought it would be.”
“I lost respect for him,” Nader said of Obama “when I saw him over a year ago on C-SPAN vigorously opposed to the impeachment of Bush and Cheney — vigorously opposed. He said it would be ‘divisive’. That is a cop out word. We have the most multiply impeachable presidency in American history.”
Okay, here’s the skinny, my black people, whether he “walked side by side with King” blah, blah, blah… matters not. I have serious issues with the way the civil rights movement was lead, arranged, diluted and ultimately dissolved. All of these people claiming their civil rights banners can really kiss my ass. Nothing has changed. They just learned how to shut us up. Read More »
