Republican says he didn't know "uppity" was a slur

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.