From the ArcaMax Publishing, Politics Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/politics/s-368839-546708
DENVER (UPI) -- Independent U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader
has accused his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, of trying to "talk
white" and appealing to "white guilt."
In an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Nader said he is again
running for president because the Democrats and Republicans are too
cozy with corporate interests.
Nader said the only one difference between Obama and Democratic
presidential hopefuls he has criticized previously: he is black.
"I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation
in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead.
What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk
white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson?" Nader said.
To win the White House, Obama is trying to appeal to "white guilt,"
Nader said.
"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."