Yes, we knew racism has lurked behind the hostility against Obama. Obama's probably a ten times more intelligent than this dufus GA Congressman, Lynn
Westmoreland, who know claims he didn't know 'uppity' is a racially loaded term. http://www.ajc.com/metro/...d_michelle_obama_are.html
Ga Congressman: the Obamas are "Uppity"
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'Uppity' is right out the Jim Crow and antebellum dictionary and Westmorland's explanation is weak. I also ready that according to exit polls, 36% of Clinton supporters in West Virginia said 'race was an issue'. 36% represents the number who said this publically. |
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Come on....I grew up in the South. Uppity = the silver spooners, the Country Club Set. The term refers to class not race!
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says..."OH, SHIT...SHE'S AWAKE!!. |
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IMHO, that's B.S. SouthernLady GA. I've lived in the Deep South for more decades than I care to admit. My range of social acquaintance and experience
is diverse. I lived through the civil rights movement.
I've only heard 'uppity' used to describe blacks who were perceived to be stepping above their 'place.'
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Posts: 2192 (09/05/08 09:46 AM) Beat the odds! |
I would agree MA7.....have lived both in the north and south and my honey raised in Georgia.
Uppity not a compliment and used in reference of reminding of one's place. And borders on preposterous residing in the south and not having heard it used in this sort of context. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away... |
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Posts: 1671 (09/05/08 09:58 AM) Smart Student |
I've only ever heard the term "uppity" that I can recall when referring to the attitude towards prosperous or successful blacks, too.
"Guess what? I have flaws! What are they? Oh, I don't know... I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me. No, don't sue me. That is... that is opposite the point I'm trying to make." --Michael Scott at "The Office" |
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Posts: 88 (09/05/08 10:02 AM) |
Cobb County GA. Many members of Old Towne Tennis were uppity, none were black. The term was used often for a click that was "stuck up". They also
happened to not be that good at tennis, but that wasn't the reason they were disliked.
I've heard the other cannotation only in old movies and I assume racists still use it, just not in public. |
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Posts: 2194 (09/05/08 10:35 AM) Beat the odds! |
I've heard the other cannotation only in old movies and I assume racists still use it, just not in public.
Sorry and true. I had to curb my eye twitch, eyebrow arch, and head shake" ( I didn't just hear that did I?!!!!!!!!!!) Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away... |
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Uppity was generally followed by either the crudest N word, or in polite society uppity negro, or uppity niggra was used. It's a term I have never heard in
reference to a white person. I've asked around today amongst GA and Alabama natives and nobody else had either. Middle and lower class people still use it
to refer to blacks who are moving out into Atlanta suburbs, and purchase nice homes. A friend of my sister used it in that context recently saying I
couldn't understand her frustration with the 'uppity blacks' who are moving into her town and bring down the property values. There is a fair
amount of dislike between blacks and whites out in Rockdale County and whatever county Covington is in.
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Posts: 6722 (09/05/08 04:05 PM) Ann: eyes that laugh |
Oh, for God's sake! Is this what we've sunk to?
Wisdom is self-regenerating. The more you use it the more you have. It's not using it that causes you to run out. ~ BoardFlak
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Posts: 3400 (09/05/08 04:38 PM) Man that |
I have heard U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland speak before. To say the least he is not the brightest bulb in the lamp. He may be guilty of some serious pandering.
He has pushed hard to have the 10 Commandments be posted everywhere. But when he was asked to recite the 10 Commandments, all he knew was that he was not
supposed to kill or steal, after those two commandments it was stone deaf silence from the Representative.
All Lynn did was drop the second word that usually accompanies uppity, the N word. The truth of the matter is that the word uppity with, the N word, has been used for generations to denigrate African Americans. When applied to a person of color the N word is now implied, it no longer has to be spoken, it is offensive just like calling an Adult African American male, "boy." Both are code words and everyone knows the true meaning. Aew, you mean is this what U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland has sunk to.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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Posts: 270 (09/05/08 10:46 PM) |
Ya'll must be referring to South GA....North GA is quite different.
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Posts: 1675 (09/05/08 11:15 PM) Smart Student |
SL - it's pretty well known via the media, regardless of how it's used locally. There's a suburbarn neighborhood with a lot of white
super-upper-class near D.C. that some people (I've only ever heard Hispanic people) call "Uppityville" because its name is something ridiculous
like Upper Meadow Falls. But even with that known locally, people still don't use uppity because of the way it would be perceived.
"Guess what? I have flaws! What are they? Oh, I don't know... I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me. No, don't sue me. That is... that is opposite the point I'm trying to make." --Michael Scott at "The Office" |
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Posts: 2421 (09/06/08 10:30 AM) Magnificent Mac |
Oh, for God's sake! Is this what we've sunk to?Car's packed, Thelma...get your purse. Louise
"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?"~ Elayne Boosler
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Posts: 1421 (09/06/08 10:52 AM) Buckheads |
I don't hear the term uppity too much, but I can't think of a time I have heard it used by anyone other than white women talking about another white
woman.
I'm glad I have never used the word because I would have had NO CLUE it had any racial meaning for some people. |
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Posts: 3448 (09/07/08 05:17 PM) Man that |
SouthernLadyGA, do you consider Atlanta to be South Georgia? I always kind of thought it was in Northern Georgia. In any case someone at the Atlanta Journal
Constitution recognizes the racial overtone of the word, "uppity."
Does anyone have a feather to throw at Westmoreland? 'Uppity,' the explanation http://www.ajc.com/blogs/...pity_the_explanation.html
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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Burg..anything south of Macon, GA is considered SGA. Macon is about 50 miles south of ATL. I live about 20 miles NW of ATL.
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Posts: 3452 (09/07/08 06:41 PM) Man that |
Lady, you never know how states divide themselves. In Illinois the state is divided between the Chicago area and downstate, of course downstate can be North of
Chicago. The population is fairly evenly divided between the Chicago area and the rest of the state.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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Posts: 1682 (09/07/08 10:43 PM) Smart Student |
And in Virginia, don't ever start a discussion in Virginia about what constitutes Northern VA. It will never, ever end and there will be acrimony on all
sides.
"Guess what? I have flaws! What are they? Oh, I don't know... I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me. No, don't sue me. That is... that is opposite the point I'm trying to make." --Michael Scott at "The Office" |
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Posts: 852 (09/08/08 03:49 AM) Lebanese Inuit |
anything south of Macon, GA is considered SGA. Macon is about 50 miles south of ATL.....And you yankee Northern Georgia carpet baggers better stay north of that line too...  And OMG! the term "uppity" is now right up there with the "N" word?
I'm sure the rich snobs across the country are toasting their glasses now....
"40 years of economic chaos brought to you by the two party system"
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Posts: 2205 (09/08/08 06:15 AM) Beat the odds! |
As it should be or always was Danny.
I find it difficult to believe one spending their entire life in the south weren't familiar with the word or it context. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away... |
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