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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Uppity Means What?

Lynn Westmoreland has lived in Georgia all his life, has been white all his life, and yet has never heard the word uppity used with a racial connotation.

“I’ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of ‘uppity’ is ‘affecting an air of inflated self-esteem —- snobbish.’ That’s what we meant by uppity when we used it in the mill village where I grew up.”


I guess he missed the Clarence Thomas hearings, then.

You know, bearing false witness is the Eighth Commandment, Lynn. I know you only know about three, but...

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