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...