Bringing Ralph Nader to Harlem

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Notes

1. Matea Gold, “Kerry Seeks to Connect to Blacks.” in Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2004, A.1.

2. Ibid.

3. Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 2002 National Opinion Poll.

4. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1992.

5. ChIP is a project of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, the nonpartisan think tank for independent politics that I co–founded in 1994 with Jacqueline Salit, who is now its political director, and that I chair.

6. See Harry Kresky, “A Constitutional Crisis,” in The Neo–Independent, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2004), 11.

7. Richard Carter, “We know Kerry and Bush, but what of Nader and Fulani?” in New York Amsterdam News, October 14, 2004, 10.

8. Edmund W. Gordon. Changing the Script for Youth Development: An Evaluation of the All Stars Talent Show Network and the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth.Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Teachers College, Columbia University, June 2003.

9. The series aired on PBS affiliates around the country between February 3 and 4, 2003. The full text of my interview appears in a companion volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans. New York: Warner, 2004, 104–121.

10. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitan Patriots,” in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (Spring 1997), 617–39.

11. J.S. Jackson. National Black Election Panel Study, 1984 and 1988 (Ann Arbor: Inter–university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1993). In 1984, before the question was asked: If Jesse Jackson ran as an independent presidential candidate, would you vote for him, Walter Mondale, or Ronald Reagan?

12. Ibid. In 1988 the question was asked: If Jesse Jackson ran as an independent presidential candidate, would you vote for him, Michael Dukakis, or George Bush?

13. Richard Hatcher: National Black Political Convention. March 10–12, 1972. Gary, Indiana.

14. The title of the forum was “Liberalism Regained.” In addition to Daniels, the other participants were Lewis H. Lapham, Ralph Nader, Eric Foner, Kevin Phillips, and Frances Fox Piven, Harper's Magazine. August, 2004.

15. Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.