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[Clifford Thornton]

> An Open Letter to Ralph Nader About His Dis to Obama
>
> By Davey D Davey 
> D's Hip Hop Corner 
> November 7, 2008
> 
> http://hiphopnews.yuku.com/topic/917
> 
> Oh, Mr. Nader, in your bittersweet resentment of Barack
> Obama you have allowed your envy to dictate your action
> and called our first Black President-elect an "Uncle
> Tom", and allowed the enemy to call the kettle black.
> 
> I can understand that as a revolutionary you may simply
> see just another Democrat taking the throne of an
> American presidency. You may think that he is an
> establishment leader and thus the change he brings is
> nothing more than temporary reform.
> 
> You have chosen to focus on the tree instead of the
> forest so that you can continue to promote your own
> political agenda.
> 
> When southern Blacks forced integration, they did not
> build black-only diners and then open them up to the
> whites. They walked into already established whites-
> only restaurants and took a place at the table. The
> only way to revolutionize the establishment was to
> become a part of it and then redefine it with new
> institutions both tangible and abstract. And even when
> they played by the constitutional rules, they were still
> killed, beaten and broken down.
> 
> You Mr. Nader may believe that your revolutionary
> stance and inclusive policy proposals allow you the
> right to critique this new Black president and his so-
> called "change" platform in the manner that you did.
> But you certainly never called any other president an
> "Uncle Tom." And quite frankly you sounded like the
> white boy who got invited to the house party and
> thought he was cool enough now to use the "N" word.
> 
> And like the white boy at the house party, you were
> sorely mistaken.
> 
> Your points were relevant when you questioned Obama's
> economic policies and voting record. However, when you
> decided to use a racial epithet to describe the type of
> man Obama might be should he not hold the corporate
> elite accountable, your ideas got lost in translation
> and you became a "racist. "
> 
> You gave fodder to FOX News, a white supremacist news
> network, to use against our movement and highlight a
> division that may or may not truly exist. Honestly, you
> are from an older generation that sees race in terms
> quite differently then my own generation. My
> generation, my people, Hip Hop culture, gave rise to
> this Black president because we understand that you
> must free your mind first and the rest will follow.
> 
> Mr. Nader, come join our revolution. Let your fear go.
> Your time has passed you need to embrace the future.
> 
> Krsta Keating of Revolutionize yo' Block
> 
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