Public Service Announcement: Calling Obama “Uppity” Is Racist
Just in case you didn’t know.
(CNN) – Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland was unaware a word he used to describe Barack and Michelle Obama on Thursday carries racial overtones, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN.
Westmoreland, who represents Georgia’s third district, described the Obamas as “uppity” when asked by reporters in Washington to compare Repubican vice presidential canidate Sarah Palin with the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate.
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said, according to the Capitol Hill Newspaper the Hill.
Westmoreland’s spokesman, Brian Robinson, insisted the congressman did not know the word has been used with a racially derogatory intent against African-Americans.
I didn’t know either, and would point out that in order for someone to be racist they should actually have to intend to be racist. Attempting to call someone racist by intentionally misconstruing a word they use is just plain stupid.
Maybe the Obama campaign should just issue us some sort of a guide to what terms are and are not acceptable for use when criticizing The One.
Hey “Jack”…
I suppose you think Sep. 11, 2001 was an “Inside” Job. Right?
First denial then the (poorly written) insults! You’re certainly following the GOP playbook page by page.
Racial quota politics. Of course, since it takes courage for a black person to become a known conservative(look what you lefties tried to do to Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice), and the constant race hustling by the Dems, there is less representation for blacks in the Republican Party, even though they are very welcome to join in supporting American values and principles, rather than the barely concealed Marxism of the Dems. It’s their choice; the Republican Party excludes no one who loves America.
As usual, you practice Goebbels’ tenth principle of propaganda.
Definitely not watermelon or fried chicken, RT!
Yes, that’s it, you’ve got it.
I advise nutters everywhere is to engage in dialogue like this with everyone you meet. In your stores, with your neighbors, in your churches with strangers on the street on your call in shows.
Yes.
Tell them you’re for John McCain/Sarah “Sambo beat the Bitch” Palin and unload whatever you have on your mind. I am assuming the mind part.
But this just could be the winning strategy for the nutter fatherland.
Sounds like not only the Obamas, but lefties in general.
BTW, what’s “historic” about Obama’s candidacy?
Isn’t it the obama campaign that deliberately places white people in the background, behind obama, in view of the camera so that it looks like he has more white support?
Lol, the dems are racist clowns ashamed of their alleged diversity.
and barry says: “NO HILLARY, NO WAY, NO HOW”
Just another liberal attempt to control speech. They have no respect for the 1st amendment or any part of the bill of rights that doesn’t favor their causes.
Let me see…unemployment is roughly the same or lower than it was under Clinton, and there are MORE people in the country today…
Why I do believe that Jack is either math impaired, or suffering anal/cranial inversion (or both!).
Or maybe just as gullible as the rest of his liberal fellow travelers!
I’m suffering from a Republican-created recession.
I’m suffering from the 2 million refugees fleeing Iraq.
I’m suffering from 605,000 jobs lost under Bush.
I’m suffering from 4000+ dead and 50,000+ wounded American soldiers who gave the last full measure to line the pockets of Bush’s campaign contributors.
I’m suffering from the cronyism and incompetence that allowed Katrina to almost destroy and entire American city.
What the fuck are YOU suffering from when all this death, stupidity, and naked greed doesn’t bother you in the least?
And then the gop welcomed them with open arms.
Southern stratagy.
Good riddance.
Who calls successful blacks uncle toms? answer: democrats.
up·pi·ty
–adjective Informal.
1. affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
2. rebelliously self-assertive; not inclined to be tractable or deferential.
Where are the “racial overtones”?
And good point Zsa Zsa
What can I say Jack, you’re an easy target.
Anna’s point is a good one. With Barack Obama the official nominee of the Democrat party, it is about time those who oppose his candidacy decided NOT to allow his supporters to determine what is and what is not racist.
Obviously, those on the Left will scream “racism” every time they are confronted with a challenge that they are intellectually unable to address. That is their history, and that is about all they have left (pun intended) with which to defend him.
Its about time conservatives decided to overlook every bleating cry of racism by the left. If Hillary had won the nomination, all we’d be hearing every time we disagree would be virulent accusations of “sexism!” So what!?
Jack, were you born that way, or did your inability to attract the opposite sex turn you?
HG:
Deny, deny, deny. It’s all you (and McSame) have to offer.
Keep it up until the nation throws y’all into the trash on Nov 4.
Show me one and win two hundred dollars, my bitch. We both know you can’t.
Oh, and he IS uppity as hell!
AND the majority of the American people see it and he will lose for it.
How do you like dem apples?
Jack,
denying liberal tripe is to live in reality.
Gee, I wonder what kind of emotion leads leftists to blatantly lle about a person if not hate?
News flash:
Racism, lynchings, disenfranchisement, Black Codes, and racial segregation laws are primarily from the democrat party. It was democrats who opposed the 14th and 15th Amendments overriding the Dred Scott decision to provide both legal and voting rights for black Americans.
It was democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, legislation that was actually enacted but effectively eviscerated by Democrats until re-enacted in 1964 and 1965 — a hundred years later.
It was the Democrats who had spent 165 years from the party founding in 1800 to about 1965 benefiting politically, socially and financially from support for both slavery and segregation, establishing Jim Crow laws and refusing to support anti-lynching legislation.
Playing the race card is at the very core of the democrats and the way they address any number of issues. In every and all instances the bottom line for democrats is always the same: race, race and race again. How to make it pay off financially, how to gain from it politically, how to scare with it or how to ruin someone’s career with it.
Can Obama lose? Yes he can.
Who calls black Presidential nominees SAMBO?……Republicans.
Good point RBB.
Please, everybody here—PLEASE spread this stuff wherever you go.
Let the world see the ugly, racist, hate-filled face of your party. Don’t censor yourselves! Give America a good look at how you truly feel!
Jack cries and lies, I’m suffering from a Republican-created recession.
You’re a victim suffering from a non-existent recession. Haha!
I’m suffering from the 2 million refugees fleeing Iraq.
How?
I’m suffering from 605,000 jobs lost under Bush.
Another non-existent problem. You’re living in make believe land, Jack.
I’m suffering from 4000+ dead and 50,000+ wounded American soldiers who gave the last full measure to line the pockets of Bush’s campaign contributors.
Not only are you living in make believe land, but you’re a liar as well. Nice mixture of evil you’ve got going on there. Does it come naturally, or do you have to work at it?
Pity the tens of millions freed from a dictator. Pity.
I’m suffering from the cronyism and incompetence that allowed Katrina to almost destroy and entire American city.
Then blame Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco. They were the ones in charge.
What the fuck are YOU suffering from when all this death, stupidity, and naked greed doesn’t bother you in the least?
That was pretty stupid, Jack.
You poor lying, fairy tale living, victim. Poor Jack.
Out of 2300+ gop delegates, how many were black?
36.
Who does not feel welcome in the gop?
Prior to starting his run for the White House,and according to released tax records, the Obamas were niggardly with their charitable contributions as a percent of their income compared to John McCain.
I haven’t heard anyone use the word “SAMBO” in at least 30 years. But now I read a democrat supporter use it, hmmmm.
Closet racist.
Jack – Lies and denial from lik. No surprise there!
How about you do something unique: prove what you say.
You say that we are in a recession: prove it.
I say that we are not (and reality backs me up here). It’s not a “lie” nor is it “denial” to recognize reality.
Freedom: translation – that which permits every individual control over their own future and prosperity and inspires some to fight to secure it for future generations.
You fricken ingrate Jack.
Lie:
Lie:
.
Lie:
It’s all you have Jack.
Yea, like KKK leader Democrat Senator Byrd, I guess…
You DNC plants are utterly worthless.
Just who do you think you are convincing? You actually think you can change minds here or do you just get paid for trying and feel better about your lies and exaggerations?
Why don’t you just stay at KOS and feel better?
I thought we all tired of the ‘race card’ ages ago. This campaign of O’s is starting to crater. We are so over this loser.
Of course Bush had nothing to do with 9/11. You know how I can tell? BECAUSE IT WORKED!
Seriously, tho’—the people who really have something in common with the 9/11 Truther nutjobs are the people who think cavemen rode around on dinosaurs, like Ms. Palin.
Ironic. It is the democrat history that is rich in bigoted, racist history. From the KKK to the Jim Crow era it was all about democrats and their ugly racist beliefs.
When democrats talk of Republicans trying to turn Obama into ‘the other,’ it is this type of bluster from the left that truly threatens Obama with that status. Why shouldn’t he be required to walk through the same flames as every other presidential candidate? Deliberating citizens will ask themselves. Why am I a racist if I have some questions about this freshman senator?
To be unable to criticize or question Obama’s candidacy or policies out of fear of rhetorical retribution is something that will almost certainly brand him as The Other. And it is not racism to note there are wide swaths of this nation comfortable enough in their own skin to not simply be bullied into voting for a candidate because a gaggle of reporters and liberal bloggers are saying “…or else.”
Obama supporters expect Hillary Clinton to be satisfied with her accomplishments without branding Democrats as sexists, so Democrats can do the rest of us the favor of not branding us racists if their candidate loses.
And YET Barry says, “NO HILLARY, NO WAY, NO HOW”
Freedom.
Lies and denial from lik. No surprise there!
I’d say an extreme inferiority complex, or in Jack’s case, an inferiority simple!
that is from the hungryblues.net site:
I suppose this might seem hyperbolic to some. It is a factual, historically accurate statement.
When I interviewed the children of Samuel O’Quinn, an African American man who was shot dead by a sniper at the gate to his property in Centreville, MS in 1959, they said that the main problem their father had with whites was that he was well educated and successful.
Samuel O’Quinn was a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute–”the highest form of education you could get” at that time, if you were Black, Rance O’Quinn emphasized.
“My mother and father gave away a fortune,” Rance O’Quinn continued. “They gave money to every cause, the building of every church. They bought the bus for the kids to go to school and paid the bus driver to take children to school.”
“That’s why he was hated,” added Phalba O’Quinn Plummer. “They said he was biggity. They would say ‘uppity’ and ‘biggity.’ ‘Biggity’ means too big for his britches.”
Five years after Samuel O’Quinn was murdered, in April 1964, his eldest son, Clarence, was attacked on the Centreville Post Office steps by Chief of Police Bill Ivey. “You damn uppity nigger, you think you own the town,” Ivey said, as he beat O’Quinn with other whites looking on.
“That Uppity McCan went and hit that reporter in the head with balloons”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/andrea-mitchell-attacked_n_124124.html
That was a blazing saddles, uppity, watch Andrea get pelted by balloons combo pack.
And with that one comment all hope for Jack went down the toilet.
Bank failures
Gas Prices
Unemployment
Weak Dollar
I’d offer more but what would be the point, lik? Your masters say there is no recession and nothing will convince you otherwise.
Your mind is made up so I’ll stop confusing you with facts.
As for me i’m going to use the word ” niggardly” at every oportunity this campaign season. No longer will cheap, miserly, tightfisted, stingy, ungenerous, grudging, mean, parsimonious, tight, suffice in my correspondence. I’ll do this, primarily, for two reasons. The first reason is simply for laughs,as we all know a large portion of our more dense citizens will go into wild, uncontrolled, convulsions upon reading the word. The other reason is to cause left leaning, are there any other, writers to chastise those using the word and , in so doing attack an adult instead of, for instance,a vulnerable seventeen year old pregnant girl. What say you, are you with me?
LOL.. wait, does that mean C.Y’s coonhound avatar is racist?
If someone “Wins” the nomination for “President” in a Major Party like this.. And, is “still” this sensitive about his Race..
What’s wrong with this picture..
Well that was niggardly of you. /just joking
DD, damnit! You did it again.
Having been raised in the south I can assure all our leftarded commentors that “uppity” is not just a term applied to arrogant whitetrash such as Barack Hussein Obama. It is applied to ALL arrogant trash such as Barack Hussein Obama.
Just glad I could clear that up for all you ignorant,arrogant, leftarded trash out there. Regardless of color. I am a practitioner of EEO. Treat you all the same, just like shit.
How about “historic” as in his “historic” nomination?
It’s not “historic” to have a Dem man running for President, so what could that mean? Racism?
Jerry.. this is just the beginning and it really is quite worrisome that Obama and his cronies racial whining can have such an affect on people.
Hussein and Michelle Obama are, in fact, a couple of dad-blame uppity niggers.
Mickey,
Thank you for the irrelevant history lesson. Now tell us where all of those former Democrats went when the party changed into what it is today? Yup, the Republican party.
Moron: I just destroyed your bullshit on this thread; you haven’t enough money to pay off on your bullshit “challenge”, because I have made thousands of factual and logical arguments, and that’s just on this blog. The fact that you are too stupid to recognize them is your problem, not mine.
Save your lunch money, kid; buy some econ books and learn something. You humiliate yourself with your every comment.
I ignore you generally because you aren’t worth my time.
I destroyed your last bullshit assertion, as well. Humiliated again, moron.
Moron: A recession is at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Not only is that not happening, but growth is increasing. Educate yourself. Save your lunch money and buy a basic econ book. You might not humiliate yourself so much.
Geez, someone has watched Blazing Saddles one too many times….
“That uppity nigger went and hit me up the head with a shovel!”
Just for the record: the “SAMBO” charge up above comes from two racist liars. These liars belong to the political party of Democrats, they who do use the slur.
What’s up is down in Democrat land. The Obama supporters call this racial lying “Hope” and “Change”.
What Reality are you in Bob?
Can’t be Earth based.
As you can see, there is not a universal racial connotation to the word.
Han-Job: You should know that even the left leaning MSM wouldn’t go with that bogus story without a reliable source and some corroboration.
You’re grasping at straws and repeating a scurrilous slander. You must be a “New” Democrat!
I’ve been diggin’ out my un-cut Blazin’ Saddles DVD!
I found it & will enjoy an evening
Is that racist towards Obamas whiteness OR his blackness?
I’m still waiting for you to stop shouting insults and prove yourself for a change.
Guess I’ll be waiting a long time, my bitch…
Oh boy…..profound /sarcasm. Did you do some reading today Liqwid and thought you you would give a go at putting together a properly structured sentence, for once, or something?
Nice try, but that made absolutely no sense. So the word Democrat (which is racist) shapes up the day??
Translation: “I have no answer so I’ll just type a buzzword.”
You people are such losers…
Jack,
You may be upset about those imagined injustices, but if there is any suffering involved in this economy it isn’t from a non-existing recession. If there is any suffering involved in fleeing Iraq, it isn’t you who is suffering and most of those who are suffering are far better off than suffering under Sadaam. if there is any suffering involved from the current econcomic downturn and subsequent job losses the solution isn’t liberal tax increases. Our soldiers suffer voluntarily so you and I don’t have to, you ingrate.
According to Jack the republican party is a ugly, hate-filled racist party.
What is it that someone who carelessly casts such derogatory accusations around is suffering from?
The biggest racist word shaping up today: Democrat.
If calling obama uppity is racist, does that mean obama can’t have crackers?
When I used the word uppity, Proof said I was playing the race card. So Proof knows the history of the word.
There is no way Westmoreland grew up in Georgia and doesn’t know the term “uppity nigger”.
He knew what he was saying.
HG:
You’ve raised denial to an art form! Your masters must be very proud of you.
Jack – I’d offer more but what would be the point, lik? Your masters say there is no recession and nothing will convince you otherwise.
That’s your argument? Make up your own definition to a well established word and then insult those who recognize the real definition?
Wow. That’s weak.
He didn’t say that; you did. Your imagination, not his words.
Lynn’s not a racist , he just talks like one.
He hardly speaks English.
Now you’re bringing penises into the thread.
RebTex:
Is the uncut version longer?