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:	post by Murph at 2008-11-05 11:15:39

So, since I've had an entire class regarding Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and actually understand what Nader meant, it's not the most tactful comparison but it is correctly used. Since the average person in this country has not read the book and is ill-informed, an "Uncle Tom" is a black male who is subservient to a white master, at least as defined by black Americans themselves in the late 19th century.

So, in his usual fashion, Nader tries to shift a paradigm and place every listener and himself as understanding history and being able to use its connotations and definitions at will. Unfortunately, what is probably a decent sound bite and somewhat, albeit crudely, relevant, is looked at as an uncaring, probably racist remark. "Uncle Tom" is not a white denotation, it is a part of black culture. The Fox News interviewer obviously does not know this, and thinks it is a racist slight to Obama. Which, it isn't, it's just kind of crude.

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