By GottaLaff
Just overheard on my local Progressive radio station KTLK that Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, who used the racially-tinged term "uppity" to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama , says he didn't know it was a racial slur.
The report went on to say it was because, see, he was brought up in the '50s and '60s, see.
Raise your hand if you were brought up in the '50s and '60s. Now of those raising your hands, how many of you knew that referring to an "African American as "uppity" is racist?
Here's another question: Who out there lives in the 21st century and reads? Apparently Westmoreland doesn't.
One more: If you represent an entire state, and you're a member of Congress, how could you be such an ignorant ass? And that's being generous by assuming it was simply ignorance.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Republican says he didn't know "uppity" was a slur
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Klan member ?
Nice try, Westmoreland.
Yesterday, he broke out the dictionary to defend his use of the word, and still claimed it wasn't racist to use it. I kid you not. He must have simply overlooked the part of the definition that indicated the term was racist.
He can read?
pro'lly not
I hope I'm in his district. I look forward to voting against him next election.
@#$%, I'm two counties too far north!
Does he know that "liar and racist" is an insult?
Probably not, being a repub.
My ass he didn't know it was racist. He probably spends so much time with other racists that his dumb ass forgot that you can't use that term around real people.
Same Congressman who was on Colbert Report advocating placing 10 commandments in government buildings.
Colbert asked him to recite the 10
commandments. Couldn't do it.
The same guy who defended his lack of original legislation by telling Colbert, "there's one more do-nothin'er...can't remember his name but he's a Democrat."
Having lived "way down South" since '58, I would not believe anyone from deep in Dixie who claimed they didn't know "uppity" was a loaded word. Especially if they date back to the Fifties and Sixties.
Westmoreland shot from the lip and got caught at it. That's about as sharp as a sack of doorknobs.
If you're ever in Peachtree City, GA, you'll have no doubt that people there know exactly what "uppity" means.
Actually I did not realize that either
As a Black woman, also reared in the 50's and 60's, that would be the reason one would know. I need him to know that it is not a word that usually stood alone - it was an adjective for the N-word.
I had truly hoped that he was reared in the 80's 90's. Now I know he is lying.
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