Ralph Nader is a racist.

As I said before, we're starting to see something of a Liberal pushback against other Liberals in the media. Hendrik Hertzberg's piece in the New Yorker is merely the most literate example of this.

But there was a another quote mentioned in the piece that got my attention. One saying that Obama is, and I quote:

"...an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations that are running our country.”

Sarah Palin picture, anyone?

Yes, I had a problem with this! (In case the title of this article didn't clue you in.)

If this was the first time Ralph Nader had used racially charged rhetoric in regards to this particular President, I'd have just been angry at him. But it's not.

It's the fourth.

June 25, 2008. Rocky Mountain News.

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic Party nominee, of downplaying poverty issues, trying to "talk white" and appealing to "white guilt" during his run for the White House.

July 28, 2008. Raw Story, in one that really bugged the @#$% out of me.

During a Sunday press conference and campaign rally attended by RAW STORY, Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader claimed that liberals and Democrats who will vote for Sen. Barack Obama as the "least worst candidate" are actually trapped in "political slavery."

And finally, November 5, 2008. Salon's War Room, where he said this crap...again.

During a radio interview on Election Day, independent candidate Ralph Nader said of Barack Obama, "His choice, basically, is whether he's going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations."

Okay, Nader supporters...what am I to conclude from this? Believe me when I say, there are plenty of ways to go after this President. I know this because I've watched you do it for the last six months, and as wrongheaded as I think some of the criticism has been, as much as it has pissed me off...I can't recall a single instance (and I've been trying) where Liberals and/or Progressives on this site or others resorted to racial rhetoric to get their point across.

Things have gotten plenty heated between the various clans of Liberals (though the polling doesn't back that up), but y'all have never gone there.

So why is Ralph Nader, your supposed hero, ALWAYS GOING THERE?!!?

Newsflash, white folks. Because of your history with African-Americans, because of slavery, Jim Crow, and the general crappy way you've treated us for the last three hundred years (as America's only involuntary immigrants), you have lost the collective right to use certain bits of the language.

Don't like it? Tough. You never paid up forty acres and a mule. I think you got off cheap.

Mr. Nader may think that by using incendiary language he's going to quote-unquote "wake people up", but what he's really telling me that he's got an inferiority problem. Like the Tea-Baggers, the Birthers, and frankly a majority of the GOP, he cannot believe, nor can accept the fact that a black man got elected instead of him. So he's going to go out of his way, to remind himself, that despite the fact that Barack Obama is now the President, he's still superior.

Let's be clear, this is about Ralph Nader. Not about you. Ralph Nader has every right to bash the President, to call him a Corporatist, a sell-out, what have you. He doesn't have the right to inject race into his arguments...

...and still, he keeps doing it.

This is about him. Not about you.

It only becomes about you, should you keep excusing this nonsense.

The only conclusion I can come to is that Ralph Nader has no problem sticking up for the little guy, as long as the little guy knows his place.

Ralph Nader is a racist.

Some of y'all are not going to like that.

Some of y'all need to deal.