Meet Lynn Westmoreland. He's a Republican Congressman from Georgia who once co-sponsored a bill to place the ten commandments in the House and Senate, even though he was unable to name more than three of those commandments during a visit to the Colbert Report. But that's not why I'm bringing up Westmoreland here today. This is why:
"Just from what little I’ve seen of [Mrs.] and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.
Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”
In other words, these are a couple of black folks who don't know their place, which is, presumably, polishing Westmoreland's ten commandment plague to a spit shine, not occupying the White House. Eventually, maybe even later today, the 58-year-old Southerner will release a statement saying that he is "sorry if anyone is offended," that his impromptu comments had nothing to do with race, and he might even try to make the argument that he had no idea that "uppity" had negative racial connotations. He, like so many others before him, will be lying through his teeth. [The Hill]
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Well at least he didn't text it. smh
–if you can't beat em, join em.
Girl, I'm so sorry but after seeing Sarah Palin today in her stars and stripes bikini holding a shotgun and all the rest of her hotmama photos, I've just decided the standards done SLIPPED.
OK –now the GOP says the pics are fake. (somehow everything that comes up with them is fake… *shrugs*) But yeah, back to this man. That uppity comment is nothing in the grand scheme of this reality show we've got going on here.
How can these GOP folks call Obama "elitist" in one breath and then insult him for being a community organizer in the next? The Republican contradictions in this election would be laughable if they weren't so infuriating.
I find the differences in the tone of Mollygood vs. Stereohpyed comments posted in reply to race-related posts like this one are hilarious.
Since college, I've decided that I never want to have another "educate the clueless-but-well-intentioned white person" conversation ever again; I did my time (and will probably have to do more when I hit law school next year). But gosh, I sure am glad that somebody is over there doing it.
LAWS, does mah use of pronouns and 'be' as a verb make me uppity, too? So sorry, Massa Westwhiteland, I's as sorry as Prissy on birthin' day!
DLS, I agree. I went through my phase of SUUUUUPER Neeeeegro: "It is my job alone to educate white people" but these people say 99 dumb things a day. What
I look like devoting whole chunks of my life trying to school these people???? Man, I got snorkeling to do. I don't have time to be educating them. When would I ever get to enjoy life? When would I ever get to have fun? While they continue to spit cockamamie ridiculousness day after day, when would my blood pressure ever drop?
So this random man who I never even heard of before called the Obamas uppity. *yawn* I long ago quit worrying about the perception of Black people in the media and I started concentrating on my perception of me. I can't be so bothered about mainstream whitefolk and their neverending ignorance-arrogance (ignorance-arrogance used interchangeably… feigned ignorance when you call them on their stuff but the arrogance to say it in the first place.) That mess is too exhausting. The ones who don't know don't want to know. That's on them to learn.
ok… i aplogize but i didn't know that "uppity" has a negative racial connotation. my old college roommate used it all the time and i just thought it meant stuck up. ?? please explain. thanks.
LeeLee,
Back in the days of slavery and Jim Crow. the term Uppity Negro was used by whites to say that Blacks were acting out of place or not being submissive. Otherwise they weren't holding thier hat in thier hands, with their heads down, saying "What ever you say Masser". Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas would have been considered an Uppity Negro and don't let a Negro get some education.
They new once you became educated the opportunities were endless and you could no longer be controlled and dominated.
I love that the Congressman really showed his true nature and how some white americans really feel about intelligent, educated, upwardly mobile, blacks. But in 2008 the word is Elitest and not Uppity Negro. Good to know just in case I'm ever called Elitest.
god… how are white people SO clueless???????? smh. thanks for the background.
Will this ever end?
I am very saddened.