Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
Originally posted by: Martin
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.
All the apologists are either playing stupid or really are socially retarded. I immigrated to Canada, haven't lived anywhere near the south and even I know what uppity means when applied to a black person.
When someone suggests that a white person born in 1950 in a place with Jim Crow laws doesn't know it has racial overtones, it just leaves me speechless.
What's even more saddening, is that people believe him, or believe that it has zero racial implications, I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and know exactly how bad that word was when associated with another word, and even on it's own, one could surmise exactly what was implied.
Now, to top all this off, it was that fucktard from GA, who wanted the 10 commandments displayed, but couldn't list them? Jebus Horatio Cristobal. That's just sad, depressing and sad.
OPEN YOUR GODDAMNED EYES AMERICA. WAKE THE FUCK UP.