Liberal nut job, fringe environmentalist, white multimillionaire are all fitting descriptions of former Presidential Candidate, Ralph Nader. But Wednesday night he added a new one to the list.
The New York Daily News reports:
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.
And sure enough along comes Al Sharpton to put Nader in is place.
"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."
WHAT??!!! Where’s the outrage? Where are the Marches? Isn’t Jessie gonna demand that he apologize and extort money from him?
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the double standard. The same thing happened back in 2001 when California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante dropped the n-bomb in front of a group of 400 Black businessmen at a Black history month event. When I say the same thing happened, I mean nothing happened. He got a pass.
But there is clearly a double standard as to who gets a pass. Had any Republican said such a think, there would have been a liberal lynch mob formed in every urban city in America. The broadcast media would have cut into regular programming with a special report. And the newspapers would have run and endless series of editorials demanding that he apologize and step down from whatever position of authority he holds.
But since it’s Ralph Nader…. Nothing.
I think Larry Elder put it best in his 2001 piece “Understanding the 'N' word”
The bottom line? Jesse Jackson says "Hymie" and "Hymie-town," apologizes, and all is forgiven. Activist Al Sharpton calls Jews "diamond merchants" and "white interlopers," and merely apologizes. "Good guys" like Bustamante survive, but "bad guys" like Rocker, Campanis and Snyder go down.
See, use of the "n" word automatically means you're a bigot, unless you're a "good guy." Then your past record determines whether we call you racist. Unless it doesn't. Got that?
***UPDATE***
In case you are wondering why I used the word "Nigger" instead of "N-bomb, N-word or Ni**er"Please let me explain.
There are few perks to being a Black man in America. And being able to unashamedly use the word "Nigger" (Ebonicly pronounced "Nigga") is one of them. So I have decided to take full advantage.
So can you. Give it a try!
*WARNING!!!!!
To all White Conservative Readers- Attempt at your own risk!
*(White liberals get one free pass!)
Craig DeLuz
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www.craigdeluz.com
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