Barack Obama dismissed Ralph Nader’s claim that Obama is trying to “talk white” and has failed to challenge the power structure to appeal to “white guilt.”The Rocky Mountain News reported that Nader said he was not impressed with Obama and that the senator was playing down poverty issues.
“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama... He’s half African-American,” Nader said. “Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. 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?”
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