Nader: Obama ‘talking white’

Staff Reporter, BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com

In an interview held on Monday with the Rocky Mountain News, Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama of avoiding black issues in an attempt to “talk white.”

“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. 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? We’ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.”

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