Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: ayabe
I've lived in FL my whole life and I know for sure, precisely what "uppity" means. There is no context that can be provided that will alter its meaning.
Then I suggest you start reading my links and educate yourself.
All of them were from BEFORE this who thing came to light.
And several of them are from foreign countries!!!! Damn racists all over the world it seems.
It is, indeed, possible for non-blacks to be called "uppity". The term may, indeed, be used by non-southerners.
It is, however, categorically impossible for someone to have grown up in Georgia in the 1950s and 1960s and
NOT understand the racial overtones of a Southern white applying that term to a black man and woman.