nader sparks controversy
Ralph Nader said that the efforts of the Democratic Party against him had made him feel like a nigger. “I felt like a nigger,” remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Nader complained that Democratic Party powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states as Georgia and Virginia – which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws that denied African-Americans equal rights. Yesterday, Nader said he was using the word in the same spirit as the Black Panthers of the 1960s – “as a word of defiance.” Al Sharpton pointed out, “He’s not a Black Panther.”
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