Naderz* With Attitude

This is slightly stale news, but did you see where Ralph Nader is dropping N-bombs and comparing himself to the Black Panthers and victims of Jim Crow laws? From the New York Daily News:

Speaking Wednesday night at a Washington fund-raiser to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign, 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.

"I felt like a [n-word]," remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. […]

Yesterday, Nader told me he was using the word in the same spirit as the Black Panthers of the 1960s -- "as a word of defiance."

Link via Sploid, who remark on the incident's non-traction thusly: "Could it be that Nader is finally, mercifully irrelevant?"

My May 2002 take on how Nader speaks lies to power here. During his 2000 campaign, I wrote a rambling bit on the awkward consumer crusader's weird problems with race here.

(* "s" changed to "z" at the suggestion of commenter Monkey RobbL.)