[Reader-list] Ralph Nader, "White" Boy?

[Paul D. Miller]

Ps, yes, I was joking about Elvis. Gotta get on my flight. I'm offline for 8hours.

Paul

Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com> wrote:

>Not sure if you were being tongue-in-cheek regarding Elvis, but Ralph Nader
>is definitely Arab-American. During his first run, the press even made
>something of the fact that he was the first Arab-American Presidential
>candidate (thus making him another minority candidate after Jesse Jackson).
>Of course Nader's identity is as a consumer advocate, not as Arab American,
>and he himself rarely talks about it, so this never gets much play (nor does
>it have to, a man's free to identify as he likes).
>
>I agree that Nader calling Obama "Uncle Tom" is off the mark, and people are
>understandably riled by the comments, but Davey D's guest blogger calling
>Nader a "white boy" is also an incomplete reading.
>
>
>On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Uh, yeah. So was Elvis...
>>
>> Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Uhh, Ralph Nader is Lebanese-American.
>> >
>> >>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
>> >
>> >>
>> >> And like the white boy at the house party, you were sorely mistaken.
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