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By Yeah how dare they!

September 4, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

How dare those Black people make Republicans look stupid!

Because you know, dem Haliburton Enron folks are just part of the crowd.

(psst….Wolves from a Helicopter.)

By dittohead

September 4, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

By dittohead

September 4, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

By dittohead

September 4, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

… It is NOT racial to call someone Uppity…..What idiot wrote that…Is is racial to call someone ELITISTS.??

By Nick

September 4, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Uppity meaning too educated? Maybe a little ambitious? He might as well say, stay in your place young black man. Well at least he’s consistent since he said the same thing to Dylan Glenn a few years ago.

By dittohead

September 4, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

… It is NOT racial to call someone Uppity…..What idiot wrote that…Is is racial to call someone ELITISTS.??

By RJ

September 4, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

What do you expect from a simple high school grad who was elected to Congress as a result of Affirmative Action(Racism).

By Nick

September 4, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Dittohead check your history. It is a historical racial connotation that the Congressman used. African-Americans who have education are uppity, out of their place. Tie that to the Congressman’s history of racially charged comments and what you get is an education assumption not idiotic at all.

By E$

September 4, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

he sees uppity, I see down to earth. I guess some are use to us being ghetto & nothing else

By Rick

September 4, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Clarence Thomas called his hearing a “hi-tech lynching of an uppity black man” meaning that they were excoriating him because he was a black man who was attempting to rise above the level the liberal Democrats felt at which he was supposed to remain.

It definitely is a racially-charged word. Westmoreland should be intelligent enough to know better than to say something so stupid.

It reminds me of Mark Twain’s famous quote “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

By MaryAnne

September 4, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Check this out about Westmoreland.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY

By Rick

September 4, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Clarence Thomas called his hearing a “hi-tech lynching of an uppity black man” meaning that they were excoriating him because he was a black man who was attempting to rise above the level the liberal Democrats felt at which he was supposed to remain.

It definitely is a racially-charged word. Westmoreland should be intelligent enough to know better than to say something so stupid.

It reminds me of Mark Twain’s famous quote “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

By H.E. Pennypacker

September 4, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

If by uppity you mean articulate and intelligent, then yeah Obama is uppity. Better than the retard we have in office now or the senile idiot running for the Republican ticket.

By Rick

September 4, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Clarence Thomas called his hearing a “hi-tech lynching of an uppity black man” meaning that they were excoriating him because he was a black man who was attempting to rise above the level the liberal Democrats felt at which he was supposed to remain.

It definitely is a racially-charged word. Westmoreland should be intelligent enough to know better than to say something so stupid.

It reminds me of Mark Twain’s famous quote “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

By Charles

September 4, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Maybe they are not uppity, maybe you and repulicants are trailer trash which is very common place here in the south.

By The Snark

September 4, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

I wonder if Lynn has memorized those Ten Commandments yet.

By john

September 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Uppity, elitist ? How about Cindy McCain wearing a $300,000 dollar outfit the other night. No I’m not making this up.

By John Henry Nations

September 4, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

So what if you think Moreland’s opinion of Obama has racial connotations? Get over it.

By Lingo

September 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Uppity is classic racist jargon. It is a a sad and pathetic slur as it highlights the insecurity and lack of self-esteem of those who use it.

By Ura Hack

September 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Republicans are mind-numbingly ignorant trailer-trash- everyone with half a brain is “uppity” to them.

By Hillary2012

September 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

The democrats are using the uppity comment to play the race card against Westmoreland. Just like they did Clinton during the Democratic Primary. Democrats no longer have the option to play that card after what happened to both Bill and Hillary Clinton during the primary at the hand of the Obama campaign.

By uncle jessie

September 4, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

What do ya’ll expect from redneck, trailer trash. Oh Oh!! Sorry, that sounds uppity.

By uncle jessie

September 4, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

What do ya’ll expect from redneck, trailer trash. Oh Oh!! Sorry, that sounds uppity.

By andy.westafer@gmail.com

September 4, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Isn’t this the same guy who said that Genarlow Wilson ought to get the death penalty. When are we going to stop electing rednecks to represent us in Congress?

By Cynthia

September 4, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Rep. Westmoreland, you can forget about re-election…wait a minute…your constituents will probably send you back to Congress in a landslide…never mind…

An Uppity Negro

By TW

September 4, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

Republicans like Westmoreland give white people a bad name.

By Longhorn

September 4, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

He’s running for the Highest position in the land….he better be Elite. This whole desire to have a beer buddy as president is insane.

By Dave Perry

September 4, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland is an idiot and has always been an idiot. Most respectable Republicans can’t stand to be around him, especially when he opens his mouth. What an idiot!

By Bill

September 4, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland is a blithering idiot.

By hmm......

September 4, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland doesn’t have a college degree. Come to think of it neither does our GOP Lt. Gov. and GA Sec. of State.
I think that tells you everything you need to know about the Georgia Republican Party. If expecting high level elected officials to be educated makes me elitist so be it.

By Heheehee

September 4, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

The Republican idea of hunting:

Shoot Wolves from Helicopters.

By Fulton Resident

September 4, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

You guys do know that Lynn Westmoreland is Black?

By Clint

September 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

I have had enough of the far right claiming intelligence is un-American. We have had an inarticulate boob representing this country on the world stage for 8 years and I say it is time to hire an educated person to run this country. The whole concept that being smart makes you “uppity” is vulgar. Almost as vulgar as using uppity to describe an African American. But what else would you expect from the Republican party of 2008?

It’s time the Republican Party quit celebrating stupidity and passing off ignorance as patriotism.

By Poor White Thrash

September 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

He is jealous. he knows no one with any class would invite a poor white college drop out thrash like him to any social event north of the mason dixie.

having a college degree is not even a requirement to be a representative.

Now you know why he responded the way he did. He is intimidated by the ivy league education.

In his dreams he wishes he was Obama. reality has set in and it is very difficult for him to accept that he can never accomplish what obama has so he thinks he can talk tough.

By Fulton Resident

September 4, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

You guys do know that Lynn Westmoereland is a black man, right?

By and Big Foot lives in GA

September 4, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Its stuff like this that I’m embarrassed to live in Georgia.

By ahh......

September 4, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Comments like hmm…..’s is why the Democrat party is viewed as elitist. So when you guys on the left wonder why you get labeled that way this is one example.

By Embarrassed Republican

September 4, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

I’m seriously going to switch to Libertarian or another party. This is more than shameful. Westmoreland sounds envious and desperate. He should be ashamed.

By Embarrassed Republican

September 4, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

I’m seriously going to switch to Libertarian or another party. This is more than shameful. Westmoreland sounds envious and desperate. He should be ashamed.

By Rusty

September 4, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

OMG, what isn’t racist this day in time? Remember that city councilman who thought the term “black hole” was racist? What an idiot. That was hypersensitivity and so is this. Pretty obvious really.

By Alex

September 4, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

That is usually what rednecks fall back on anytime there is possibly a black that is intellgent or more intellgent than them. I can just imagine what he really wants to call them and probaly does. I think most southern whites feel like that about backs with a little something on the ball, especially in Atlanta.

By flip wilson

September 4, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

This is the same moron who only knew two of the Ten Commandments. A typical ignorant racist, he resents any black person who makes the effort to get a good education. He’s a real credit to the state of Georgia.

By RJ

September 4, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

If the Obamas cared or had respect for Westmoreland’s ignorant opinion of them they would be offended.

Besides representing the well on matters of race what has Westmoreland done for the people of that District. On second thought, that’s about all they expect or want.

By Dr. Weiss

September 4, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

The nerve. Yes the Obamas have class, style and are very VERY well spoken. She probably was upset that she made her look like the trailer trash she truly is. SHAME on you Lynn Westmoreland!!!!!!

By Warren Sams Iii

September 4, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Rep. Westmoreland, you obviously are not the sharpest tack in the box. Woe be it unto your constituents.

By Liberal UPPITY Media

September 4, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

OK OK I have a question for the Liberal Left that I see on this blog….

What is the difference in Westmoreland calling Hussein Obama and his wife UPPITY and the yolks of the liberal left questioning Palin and her ability to be VP because of her children at home? Would that not be sexist? Is that ok or is that another double standard. I can’t wait for the day that we as a nation can come together and change this world without the involvement of the RACE CARD.

I am pretty sure many on this board have referred to Westmoreland as a REDNECK. This word is as offensive as the N-word as well as White trash. But its ok for us to type those words out on an AJC blog. Censor REDNECK and White Trash AJC.

By mo

September 4, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Amazing how childish many of those responding on this blog are. Uppity is not a “race” word in any form. I have watched carefully and closely over the last nine months or so both parties’ candidates - and most recently to include the VPs. As an independent, I’ve evaluated all of the remarks, gestures, mistakes, etc. I’ve evaluated the candidates experience and roles in both the political arena, and every-day life. Hands down - I would not vote for Obama and Biden for any amount of money. They may be in the White House soon - and I will support them and hope for the best - but today and leading into the election I will voice my concerns to anyone listening that those two guys do not represent the “normal” majority of the people in this country - they truly are in a group that are probably better suited with Hollywood individuals like Oprah (I like her - but not in Washington). So, I have to vote with Westmoreland - and you can use any word you want - but that entire Dem ticket is “snobbish”…(hope that word doesn’t offend anyone - and if it does - grow up).

By Lee

September 4, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Oh please Westmoreland, is that the best you can do. I’m sure being a child of mixed races Obama has been called worst. I wasn’t originaly for Obama but since Hillary and other have shown there true colors, to the next President of these great states, run Obama run. And since history seems to allude people there were 3 president who had as much or less experience as Obama and JFK was one of them. Was he also considered uppity? Make you wanna fo hum, don’t it?

By See dictionary

September 4, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

The dictionary defines uppity: affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.

I realize that this word has often been used for blacks getting ‘above their place’, and I would never condone it’s use in that context. But does that mean the word has to be stricken from the English language in case it offends someone? I’ve had my mother use that term growing up (“don’t get uppity with me!”) and I’m white. I don’t know how Westmoreland meant it as I’m not a mind reader.

Sorry, but many, many people think that the Obamas act snobbish and look down their nose at middle & working-class America. So in this instance, perhaps the definition fits.

By Vick

September 4, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Liberal-UPPITY Media

I expect more out of elected officials than bandying about racist terms to describe A senator and his wife. Don’t you?

By reebok

September 4, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Wow…Westmoreland has so much class, dignity and grace, I’m surprised McCain didn’t pick him for VP. Between this moron and the vicious harpy who spoke at the GOP convention last night, the Republicans seem determined to lose every state north of the Mason-Dixon AND west of the Mississippi.

By Peggy

September 4, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

When didn’t being educated become elistist? I would want my president to be an intellectual. I thought all presidents were college educated. I have never in life heard of a presidential candidate having to explain to the world why both parents are PH.D’s and he has a law degree. Barack & Michelle are both the American Dream. The people who are really upset are the ones who got a 400 year head start and their families still have nothing.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Fulton Resident, Lynn Westmoreland is white. They posted his picture besides the blog entry.

By mo

September 4, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Amazing how childish many of those responding on this blog are. Uppity is not a “race” word in any form. I have watched carefully and closely over the last nine months or so both parties’ candidates - and most recently to include the VPs. As an independent, I’ve evaluated all of the remarks, gestures, mistakes, etc. I’ve evaluated the candidates experience and roles in both the political arena, and every-day life. Hands down - I would not vote for Obama and Biden for any amount of money. They may be in the White House soon - and I will support them and hope for the best - but today and leading into the election I will voice my concerns to anyone listening that those two guys do not represent the “normal” majority of the people in this country - they truly are in a group that are probably better suited with Hollywood individuals like Oprah (I like her - but not in Washington). So, I have to vote with Westmoreland - and you can use any word you want - but that entire Dem ticket is “snobbish”…(hope that word doesn’t offend anyone - and if it does - grow up).

By DD345

September 4, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Obvioulsy “mo” you have no experience with racism in the South. “uppity” has long been used as a term by white’s to refer to African Americans whom they perceive as trying to attain the same status as white Americans. So er yeah… what were you saying?

By kclubmem

September 4, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this

Who cares what Lynn Westmoreland thinks anyway?

By hey Mo

September 4, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Yeah you’re ‘independent’ we believe you.

You just say you are but you really secretly like what the Republicans say but you’re too embarrassed to say you’re one of them.

Go run your bar and pine after marge.

By jane

September 4, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

Westmorland is not the most educated person in the State. That is clearly the case here. I hear there are some people in Fayette County that wanted to run against him in the primary this year, but were talked out of it. Maybe the party there will get behind someone educated who will not embarras us like this.

By pardon me

September 4, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland: another credit to the state of Georgia. Any more questions about why the rest of the country looks down on us?

By Jacquie

September 4, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

Lynn Westmoreland = Backwoods hick.

I haven’t heard the term “uppity” in 25 years, at least. And when I DID hear it, years ago, it was ALWAYS used as a negative term against blacks who were either more educated, more articulate, or better off, financially, (or all of the above) than themselves.

Poor White people hated Blacks who were perceived as “uppity” — and they sought to “put them in their place” whenever they could.

What a sad thing that in 2008 a U.S. Congressman would say something so insensitive (read: STUPID!). I doubt that the Obamas could give a flying fig about what Westmoreland thinks of them, though. I know I wouldn’t if I were them.

By Houckster

September 4, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

If I met Mr. Westmorland, I’d have a real difficult time not slapping him uppity the side of his head.

But Westmorland will have a lot of supporters and they’ll be the kind that would take about 5 minutes to get used to slavery again. An intelligent black man still threatens a lot of people to this day.

And I’m not surprised that there will be idiots who want to justify Westmoreland’s comment by claiming the Obamas have probably referred to Westmoreland as a redneck. I do wonder what holds their ears apart.

Yes, Mo, Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden will be our next president and vice-president. They will be elected by a clear majority of the American electorate proving that Georgia is not typical of the nation as a whole. I hope that you will find some reason for satisfaction in their policies.

By joe

September 4, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

I’m from a military family and can tell you that when Mr. Obama visited our troops in Iraq he was very cool - and I don’t mean cool as in friendly. He got his picture taken a few hundred times with troops in the area - but failed to spend any time with them at all. He was too busy posing for pictures - now is that uppity, snobbish, or just down right Hollywood for you? When asked why he didn’t spend more time with the troops he said he had to “check the box” with such a full itinerary that he just didn’t have time. Well I can tell you what box I will be checking in November - and it won’t have Obama’s name next to it.

By Sam

September 4, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

uppity
1880, from up; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive (first recorded use is in “Uncle Remus”). The parallel British variant uppish (1678) originally meant “lavish;” the sense of “conceited, arrogant” being first recorded 1734.

Thank you Lynn, for taking another step back for Georgia.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Liberal Uppity Media, it is the same thing as when Rush Limbaugh blasted John Edwards for trying to run a campaign when his wife had cancer and he had two young children to raise. The reason you call it sexist is because Palin is a woman. In John Edwards’s case, it was simply called Family Values, by the Conservatives. Pot meet Kettle.

By Bruinfan

September 4, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Community Organizer-

Not that I am making any comparisons between men, only the title, but…

How can someone who was a “community organizer” be a good leader? I mean come on, who in their right mind who follow someone?….wait a minute, there was one guy back some time ago, I think he was a Jewish carpenter, and we celebrate his birthday some time in late December. He was probably just some uppity rabble-rouser that Christians would not believe in, anyway.

Before you get carried away, I am NOT comparing Obama to Jesus, only that community organizers can be good leaders.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Mo—- Are you new to the South? Even white people recognize the term as racist.

See Dictionary — Sorry, but many, many people think that the Obamas act snobbish and look down their nose at middle & working-class America.

They are upper middle class. McCain and his wife are filthy rich. I see the difference already. Who has further to look down their nose? Maybe the $300K suit lady?

By Mo

September 4, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

To the person who responded to my first blog. Yes, I’m independent and have always been such. Have voted across party lines in every election for over 30 years - local and national. Not embarrassed about anything to do with how I vote. And, yes - today I do like what the Rep say a heck of a lot more than what the dems say. Have spent the time to do my homework on these candidates. Don’t have a bar - but thanks for the advice that I won’t be taking. Please write something that has some value - or go away.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Joe — I’m from a military family and can tell you that when Mr. Obama visited our troops in Iraq he was very cool - and I don’t mean cool as in friendly.

So how was McCain’s visit?

By Mike

September 4, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Let’s give Lynn a little sympathy here - it is conceivable that he simply doesn’t know what “uppity” implies (which of course is good enough reason not to use a word) but just in case, you sir are an idiot. Obama may be arrogant and out of touch with most people, but he is intelligent and might be president one day (but not likely this year).

By marcus

September 4, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

This is just the beginning of how uglys things will become. Someone I garantee will us the N word before this is over

By mo

September 4, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

don’t need experience with racism in the south - although you are dead wrong. people choose to use words in ways that may be perceived as racist - and others choose to perceive them as racist because they need to to make a point.

grow up. uppity is not a racist word. if someone wants to put it in a phrase and try to make it as such then they are as ignorant as the person who perceives it to be such.

grow up!!!

By Get real

September 4, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Wow “mo” you sound awful uppity there telling people when they can and cannot respond to this story….

By mo

September 4, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

no melissa not new to the south - lived in lots of places in the world including 27 years in the south and south west US. Just know that people choose to hear what they want to hear and shape it and carve it to whatever they need it to be to make their point.

Grow up

By Uppity Guy

September 4, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Jeez mo, relax. And quit being so uppity.

By JUST A MINUTE

September 4, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

I have heard “uppity” used more to describe anyone who thought they were better than someone else. More than any time to describe blacks or anyone else of different racial backgrounds. Yet another attempt to witchhunt someone for no good reason.Check your facts first before stating an opinion and not a true fact or false stereotype.

By Farsider

September 4, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

The word “uppity” has been a racist buzzword in the South going back as long as I can remember, and I’m nearly 50 and have lived in Georgia all my life. I’ve never heard the term once in a non-racial context. There is no way a man of Moreland’s age could have accidentally made this remark without knowing it’s implications. That much is fact; all else is theory.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Mo — I will voice my concerns to anyone listening that those two guys do not represent the “normal” majority of the people in this country

What is more normal than putting yourself through school, succeeding, and making something great out of your life?

Or I should ask how normal is it in this country to be worth over $100 MILLION dollars? It must be normal also to have so many houses, you don’t even know how many you have and have to get some help from your assistants to answer the question.

I think that we have different ideas about what constitutes normal for most Americans. $100MIL and so many houses you can’t even remember isn’t normal for me.

By KA all the way!

September 4, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

As a son of The Old South… I can attest to the fact that this word in particular was used to describe black people almost exclusively. I also have no doubt… no matter what his intelligence level… that Mr. Westmoreland knew EXACTLY what he was saying. You don’t come from GA and describe a black guy like that without meaning the N word.

By Melissa

September 4, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Mo —- I wouldn’t think you’d think it was racist, you think a couple worth over $100M represents normalcy and understands the plight of the American family. You still have some growing up to do too.

By Henry Hamilton

September 4, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

You know this whole thing would be funny if not for the fact that Mr. Westmoreland is in congress. Any one born before 1980 should know that the word Uppity when referring to a person of color has racial overtones. He should be ashamed of himself not only for using the term but for not knowing that it has racial overtones. I by know means think he is a racist I just think he is stupid.

By Saved

September 4, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

I guess the trailer trash like rubbing elbows with the rich and famous that is why they’re republicans. Because if you just look at Cindy McCain’s clothes you can see who the uppity is. Here this woman is a billionaire and want a tax break. Even the backwood Georgian who has money don’t even look or dress like the McCain’s. You guys need to get real and deal with reality. Someone recently reminded me how the south was always democratic and when blacks started populating the south in huge numbers the white southerner changed to republican. That shows that the republican party still stands for segregation. Don’t get it twisted this country truly is not the land of the free!!!

By Jae

September 4, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Lynn Westmoreland was raised in the South and clearly understands the racist undertones in his comments. This election process has brought forward so much of what is truly in the hearts of people who claim to be Christian and who present themselves as being “dumb” toward understanding what comes out of their mouths. It is really ugly and does not go unnoticed by the American people. Adding insult to injury is the “spin” being placed on Palin’s daughter who is 17 and pregnant. Clearly, if this had been Obama’s daughter, she would likely be a “freak” and the pregnancy would be attributed to some “immoral” issue within the family. To suggest that this makes Palin a person of values around “right to life” is pure hypocrisy! Westmoreland and others like him are EXPOSED!

By james

September 4, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Apparently Westmoreland let the good ole boy come out. Seems like a closet racist to me! Uppity is a racist term to put down black people with ambition.

By Saved

September 4, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

I guess the trailer trash like rubbing elbows with the rich and famous that is why they’re republicans. Because if you just look at Cindy McCain’s clothes you can see who the uppity is. Here this woman is a billionaire and want a tax break. Even the backwood Georgian who has money don’t even look or dress like the McCain’s. You guys need to get real and deal with reality. Someone recently reminded me how the south was always democratic and when blacks started populating the south in huge numbers the white southerner changed to republican. That shows that the republican party still stands for segregation. Don’t get it twisted this country truly is not the land of the free!!!

By DS9Sisko

September 4, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

And why is anyone shocked when we know this is how most Republicans/conservatives really feel about Obama anyway? It was only a matter of time….

By Tony

September 4, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

Do you have any idea how many African-American people were lynched, murdered, raped, burned, and victimized for being “uppity” in the state of Georgia? Westmoreland represents a very negative thread in the fabric of this country. Too bad that knowing GA history is not a requirement for holding a political office. Westmoreland should resign.

By SouthPeach

September 4, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

How freakin ridiculous… The Demodumbs are GRASPING!!!!!

By Stuart

September 4, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

Yeah, it’s also important to note that in the dictionary, the word “moron” has your picture next to it. Hey, thanks for making us proud, Lynnie. And for reminding me to set my calendar back FIFTY YEARS!”

By Susan

September 4, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Is there anything negative we can say that won’t be misconstrued as a racial atttack? Put the race card away. It work work. I always thought uppity meant “snobby”. I’ve NEVER heard it used as a racial remark. Boy, some people think every word they don’t like means someone is being racist. Get over yourselves. You aren’t that important!

By Wackolibhack

September 4, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

It is Bush’s fault that there is racism. There was never any racism in this country before Bush. It is Bush’s fault that my democratic party cries racism when we are in trouble. It is Bush’s faul Palin will hurt Obama’s chances. I hate Bush!!!!!!

By Backatcha

September 4, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

You’re all uppity.

By Woman for Obama

September 4, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

So working really hard, getting accepted to and then busting your buns in a good college and making something of yourself makes you “uppity”? Westmoreland obviously didn’t do that, and doesn’t understand the meaning of the word. May I suggest a pocket dictionary?

By Liberal UPPITY Media

September 4, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

Melissa- Edwards and anything to do with the words family values should not be mentioned in the same sentance.

Also when you bring your liberal talking points from your liberal agenda sheet for sounding stupid you should take a look at Hussien Obama’s big summer vacation. I mean it is PERFECTLY normal for an average American to jump aboard a chartered jet along with his family and go on an island adventure where you stay in a million dollar home on a private beach-front. I mean if this is how you define normalcy then I need to live in your world.

What was it that you said “hello pot calling kettle”.

Not saying McCain ever worked a day in his life. But before you start talking about how he made his millions…lets talk about how Hussein Obama made his. Using his platform as a Senator to write two books? Imagine if he had put that info into passing laws or even voting YES or NO instead of voting present.Liberals kill me talking about Palin’s experience. What is present and will it be on the ballot under Hussien name so he knows who to vote for?

Vick- Got to say I agree 100% with you my man. So many things that need to be dealt with in this world that are more important then bantering about remarks made about Hussein and his wife. But since we agree on this can I ask you a question. What is the difference in referring to someone who is UPPITY and someone who is WHite Trash? Not being funny or trying to flame this blog anymore then it already is.I mean African Americans can’t be referred to as white trash can they? What about latino’s?

Mo- Becareful how you use your words in these here parts before you know it you will have called someone a racist term and not even know it. I agree with your post 100%.

Melissa goes ape s** in 5-4-3-2-1

By kj

September 4, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

I expect nothing less from an uneducated man who doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree. I’m sure this euphemism for affluent blacks who have been successful is commonplace among the likes of our Georgia Republicans. How else could Westmoreland (or other dumbed down politicians like Handel or Cagle) respond to people who highlight their inadequacies? These types don’t like be “sassed” by people they deem beneath them and they don’t like “uppity” blacks making them look bad.

By OutSideAgitator

September 4, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

I was born in 1949 in the rual racist backwoods of northwest Florida. Mr. Westmoreland’s words are those of an ignorant White southern racist.

By S

September 4, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Would someone put a plug in this idiot’s mouth, he is an embarrassment to the state of Georgia. I can’t believe he is our Representative.

By Frederick Douglass

September 4, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

To Liberal Uppity Media @ 5:06, how many Red Necks have been hung by the neck until dead while a frenzied mob yelled “Red Neck” at them. As for Sarah Palin, no one’s surprised by her family’s plight, this is how whites have handled things for centuries, but if she’s found not to be the mother of Trig, then she’s a liar, and shouldn’t be in this race. Lynn Westmoreland doesn’t merit a comment.

By gator10297

September 4, 2008 7:12 PM | Link to this

Westmoreland’s words are racist. He is LYING if he says he grew up in the South and never heard the word “uppity” to describe an African American person who “did not know their place”. I grew up in the SOuth in the 70’s and and 80’s and I know the connotation of that word. This jsut makes Westmoreland more of an idiot. Westmoreland is a racist, and he wanted to be. He repeated it when having the chance to reflect upon it. Let’s be clear - the Republicans have abandoned their discreet Southern Strategy and their code words and are just being more direct about what they think. Westmoreland is an ignorant racist. Camp in ‘08!

By JL

September 4, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

Hey everyone, isn’t a little ironic, well hypocritical to lambast him for his so called “racist” use of the word “uppity” while you yourselves are calling Westmoreland and others you don’t like “trailer trash”,”poor white college drop out trash”, “senile idiot”, “retard”, “redneck”, etc.

Come on, grow up people…I may not like the man but he is entitled to his opinion, whether or not he is a racist or not. Using the term uppity to describe someone in my book isn’t racist. My family grew up using that word to describe white and blacks equally, it was derogatory at best but NEVER racist, pretty soon the word poor is going to become a racial slur -

“Sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you.”

By Billy Otwell

September 4, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

Whoa….where’s your attribution for this line “For decades in the segregated South, “uppity” was a word applied to African-Americans who attempted to rise above servile positions.” Who told you that or did you simply invent it yourself. Uppity applies to ANYONE who feels they are better than those in their present company. You’re sounding a little uppity yourself.

By JW

September 4, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately, he probably is a good representative of the Georgia mindset. They love to live in the past and long for the “good old days”. He said it and he is proud of it. The people who elected him probably feel the same. The good news is that this election has provided a path of escape for those who are looking to the future. We may not get there this time, but it will not take 45 years. Too amny good people, black and white, have had their eyes opened and they will not go back to sleep.

By CB in McDonough

September 4, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Shame on you AJC and shame on you Jim Galloway for even publishing such divisive, blatantly racist comments. This comment has absolutely NOTHING to do with NOTHING. And it goes to show that unfortunately, Georgia still has some racial issues to resolve. Why don’t you print comments from people (both African American and White) who praise the Obama’s? Why must you all always post comments that degrade Obama and African Americans? It’s funny how we see all of these polls and predictions from this right-wing paper of how GA will vote, I can’t wait for African American’s, Hispanics and Caucasians to prove you all wrong!!!

By Susan

September 4, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

“uppity- putting on or marked by airs of superiority” It says nothing about anyones race.

By Westmoreland ain't too bright

September 4, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

A lot of people are elitist to Lynn Westmoreland. He’s one of only a few Congressman who lack College degrees. If expecting members of Congress to be educated makes me an elitist than so be it.

By Millard Barack-al-Biden

September 4, 2008 7:53 PM | Link to this

Clarence Thomas is not black or African American. The establishment of the Liberal Black media and Democratic party consider Thomas an Uncle Tom because of his independant position on key issues such as Affirmative Action and government social welfare programs. Additionally he married a white woman so the typical African American such as Obama with his statement to the Saddleback church shows essentially their bigotry which undergirths their racial hatred while promoting unity.

By Rodney Jackson

September 4, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

I think it is unfortunate that Senator Obama and his wife Michelle, because of their success, are being label by Rep. Westmoreland as “uppity”. It is amazing to me that we live in a country that prides itself on being a nation of high achievers and we have a leader in government (Wesmoreland) who has reached a level of success himself, yet still uses the word “uppity” to label the success’ of fellow Americans (Sen. Obama and Michelle). Maybe it true after all that some of us did evolve from apes………………..

By Rodney Jackson

September 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this

I think it is unfortunate that Senator Obama and his wife Michelle, because of their success, are being label by Rep. Westmoreland as “uppity”. It is amazing to me that we live in a country that prides itself on being a nation of high achievers and we have a leader in government (Wesmoreland) who has reached a level of success himself, yet still uses the word “uppity” to label the success’ of fellow Americans (Sen. Obama and Michelle). Maybe it true after all that some of us did evolve from apes………………..

By Lynn Westmoreland

September 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this

No hold on there, y’all. Dagnab it, I meant nothing by my remarks. Y’all are being racist to me.

I get so mad when these affirmative action programs let uppity (oops, I meant elitist…dagnab it, it just happened again) people who have Harvard or Columbia degrees get ahead of us white folk with high school diplomas. It just ain’t fair they get an advantage over us. Dagnab it.

By Frederick Douglass

September 4, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this

If Clarence Thomas wants to find out if he’s black or not, he need only drive up to north Georgia, above Cumming, get out of his car and walk. An even better barometer, would be for Thomas and his wife to stroll hand in hand around Dawsonville and smooch perodically, then and only then would he know for sure wheter he’s an uppity black or not.

By S.C.

September 4, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

It’s amazing how irritated Whites get when African Americans have any level of power, allure, intelligence, prestige, money, etc. Neither Barack Obama nor Michelle Obama are viewed by me as uppity; they are quite simply two people who have chosen a path of education, which has lead them (just as it does Whites, only easier) down a successful path, despite the hurdles placed before them, often by envious Whites like Westmoreland. They’ve done it with grace and style. Ignorant Whites like Lynn Westmoreland will say or do anything they can to hinder the progress of any African American that shows signs of prosperity. I’m a proud African American who gets such a kick out of seeing my White neighbors seethe when I pull out of my garage in my 2009 Benz, from my beautiful house on the hill, with a pocket full of money, on my way to the bank to count more of it while they drive to their 9-5! Hah-Hah. And no, I don’t sell drugs. I did it the right way - - through prayer and reverence to God and a college degree! Eat crud Lynn! I truly am uppity and right now Lynn, my friends and I are having dinner from a menu which includes Seared Duck Breast with Blackberry Puree on Brioche, Butternut Squash Bisque with Apple and Mint, a Salad of Baby Greens with Lime Infused Scallops, Marinated Filet Mignon Topped with Bleu Cheese and Dates, Served with a Balsamic Cabernet Reduction Sauce, Baby Red Potatoes Roasted with Garlic Cloves and Thyme with Saute of Seasonal Mixed Vegetables, Banana Bread Squares and Petite Pastries all along with an excellent bottle of Riedel Sommeliers Bordeaux Grand Cru. Oops, I’m sorry Lynn, you’re a REDNECK who has no idea of what I’m talking about. Forgive my horrible manners.

By laffin@repubz

September 4, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this

for the 3 or 4 of you who are basically refuting the testimony of roughly 90% of the people who responded to this story, why do you think that because it doesn’t scream racism “in your book,” that historical fact and experience across age and regional demographics should be ignored? because that is what you ppl are suggesting. just because you don’t understand algebra, that doesn’t mean it’s imaginary. it just means you don’t get it. fine. nasty disillusioned lot, u repub supporters.

a couple of questions (that i’m sure i’ll get sound-byte, unresearched answers to):

what exactly makes sen. and mrs. obama ELITIST? i hope your answers don’t have anything do do with net worth, as even u dim bulbs can see that the mccains are worth SCORES more.

and to the guy refering to sen obama as hussein…what exactly is the purpose of that? if u know he’s not muslim (which we all do), it has no significance…unless it’s a tactic to exploit peoples kneejerk reactions to the word HUSSEIN, which is based in deceit. just like the tactics of the repubs you support…you all know that u can’t talk about the issues honestly because you’d lose all support.

and as a proud TRULY independent American voter, i think that anyone who would sacrifice the greater good of this country to enforce personal vendettas is a disgrace to the flag and all who have ever bled for it.

it is tantamount to treason to put up a smokescreen of empty baseless false misleading information to further the agenda of a corrupt group of tyrants when so many americans are hurting and right now and so desperately need help. the truth is the light and those who would obscure it for political purposes are the TRUE enemies of the state, as you’re hurting american progress in every possible column. shame on you and God bless America!!!!!

By ga_tech_92

September 4, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

This is stupid. He wouldn’t have said the word and repeated it, if he though it was racist. Why would he do that? He wouldn’t. Pot…kettle…BLACK.

By ga_tech_92

September 4, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

This is stupid. He wouldn’t have said the word and repeated it, if he though it was racist. Why would he do that? He wouldn’t. Pot…kettle…BLACK.

If he didn’t feel like it was racist…then it wasn’t intended as such…the truth of a matter is intent…he did not intend it to be racist…only race baiters (the true racists) will turn it into that.

Sticks and stones…hurt bones…words not so much…grow up.

By laffin@repubz

September 4, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this

for the 3 or 4 of you who are basically refuting the testimony of roughly 90% of the people who responded to this story, why do you think that because it doesn’t scream racism “in your book,” that historical fact and experience across age and regional demographics should be ignored? because that is what you ppl are suggesting. just because you don’t understand algebra, that doesn’t mean it’s imaginary. it just means you don’t get it. fine. nasty disillusioned lot, u repub supporters.

a couple of questions (that i’m sure i’ll get sound-byte, unresearched answers to):

what exactly makes sen. and mrs. obama ELITIST? i hope your answers don’t have anything do do with net worth, as even u dim bulbs can see that the mccains are worth SCORES more.

and to the guy refering to sen obama as hussein…what exactly is the purpose of that? if u know he’s not muslim (which we all do), it has no significance…unless it’s a tactic to exploit peoples kneejerk reactions to the word HUSSEIN, which is based in deceit. just like the tactics of the repubs you support…you all know that u can’t talk about the issues honestly because you’d lose all support.

and as a proud TRULY independent American voter, i think that anyone who would sacrifice the greater good of this country to enforce personal vendettas is a disgrace to the flag and all who have ever bled for it.

it is tantamount to treason to put up a smokescreen of empty baseless false misleading information to further the agenda of a corrupt group of tyrants when so many americans are hurting and right now and so desperately need help. the truth is the light and those who would obscure it for political purposes are the TRUE enemies of the state, as you’re hurting american progress in every possible column. shame on you and God bless America!!!!!

By 14u2thinkabout

September 4, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

Sad comments in 2008 for someone who may run for Governor in 2010.

By Frederick Douglass

September 4, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

Go get em SC, I feel the same way when I’m mowing the lawn around Douglass Manor, and jealous American patriots throw trash from their cars for me to clean up. They criticize you when they think you’re on the government dole, and hate you when you attain something through hard work.

By Curious

September 4, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

Why is it that blacks themselves say that when a black man or woman gets educated, speaks properly and has a successful career that they are “trying to be white”? Is it a “white thing” to be successful? Is it a “black thing” to be a failure, unable to speak proper English? Just curious.

By Roosevelt Walton

September 4, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

Gov Palin is a well spoken, articulate presenter of the current republican party. I have a suggestion: If elected, I am sure that Jerry Springer would be interested in a cabinet position. Roose, Ga.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 4, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

I have never heard the word ‘uppity’ used in connection with a white person. In fact, it is never used in connection with caucasians. It is reserved to describe people of color only. Westmoreland is not an anomaly! He’s just a regular old Republinazi, fascist b*******!

By Roosevelt Walton

September 4, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this

Cheers for the republican party….If they can get Jerry Springer as minister of culture they will be un-beatable.

Roose, Georgia

By carolyn williams

September 4, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

This week’s convention should be go down as one of the lowest points in American history. The republican party is in a sink hole that at this point has only grown deeper.
Glad to see the Obama team taking a high road. The dems need do nothing more that sit back and watch as things implode for the party of Lincoln (now spinning in his grave like a top).

Sad to even think that young people, African Americans or Latinos would be willing to attend this event as delegates, even more frightening is to know that anyone serving in Iraq would support a veteran (McSame) who has the best health care provided in this country, yet at each opportunity votes again any bill that would benefit veterans. joe, i just hope you survive Iraq in one “peace”, mentally and physically, because you can bet McCain will not be there to help the likes of you.

By Hasell Brown

September 4, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

Rep. Westmoreland has shown the true nature of the GOP; is it a wonder that many African-Americans believe that “R” besides a politician’s affiliation means RACIST??

From the migration of the Dixiecrats to the GOP in the early 60’s to current times, the policies of the GOP/conservatives are to marginalize the minority vote by any means necessary, minimize minority success, and eliminate the minority voice.(Note: Florida-2000 and Ohio-2004) If anyone has noted the dearth of African-American delegates in the convention…..and the lack of policies coming from McCain/Palin…it should be quite evident that the racism that Rep. Westmoreland has towards his African-American constituents guides his party’s decisions as representative of the greater population.

By HenryCo

September 4, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this

Didn’t he oppose the Voting Rights Act and also have a nasty primary runoff with Dylan Glenn?

By Steve

September 4, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this

.

Hasn’t ANYONE Learned ANYTHING ? ?

You Cannot Criticize a Black Person …

geez …

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By Fran

September 4, 2008 10:20 PM | Link to this

… and then he claims not to have understood the meaning - and significance - of the word “uppity!” Lying, cowardly scumbag!

By Mark

September 4, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this

I’m a white Southerner about the same age as our distinguished representative and even if he didn’t intend for “uppity” to be a racist comment he certainly can’t say that he didn’t know it is commonly used in the South to denigrate blacks who “don’t know their place”. At the very least, Westmoreland is a liar.

By George

September 4, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this

Quote - 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,” Westmoreland said. - end Quote …

Get the chip off your shoulder people, and stop always looking for someone to ostracize …

Damn, y’all are wearing me out … .

By Jim

September 4, 2008 10:31 PM | Link to this

Uppity = A Black person that does not know their place. That simple. That is what it has always meant in the South.

By Marie

September 4, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

Let Westmoreland run if he wants. Jealous fool.

A black man made a white man jealous! Ha! H1

By Bob

September 4, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this

I was raised in the South, and I took the word Uppity to mean Snobbish …

yawn, whatever …

By JATL

September 4, 2008 11:09 PM | Link to this

Great -another idiot making Georgia look like a backwoods Klan hole. I grew up near Sharpsburg, and if he truly has never heard the term “uppity” used to describe Black people who racist Whites think are exhibiting too much confidence or trying to rise above their station in life, then he’s too stupid and oblivious to serve in any capacity. He’s also a great deal older than me, so I KNOW he has had to hear it. I grew up in the 70s and heard it -and not infrequently! He basically just slipped up and let HIS true colors show.

By ad

September 4, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this

anybody with good “Southern” sense knows exactly what he meant. He is a disgrace and should be censored, tarred, and feathered.

By Expected

September 4, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

This pins and needles paralyzed by PC is what we can expect over the next months and hopefully NOT over the next 4 years.

By Mike In Woodstock

September 4, 2008 11:43 PM | Link to this

Anyone who says anything critical of the Obama’s is a racist.

By Otto

September 4, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this

Osamabamadingdong is uppity!

By Dan

September 5, 2008 12:07 AM | Link to this

Westmoreland is a racist just like all his fellow Republicans. We all know what he meant to say does he really think we are all dumb and stupid. Mr. Westmoreland please do not insult my intelligence.

By Sam Folds

September 5, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this

Correction: In order for “uppity” to have a racial element, you have to say “uppity negro”, or some variation of the word negro.

Describing someone as “uppity” just means “snob”.

Subtle but major difference.

By crass realist

September 5, 2008 12:36 AM | Link to this

If anybody is uppity here, it is Michelle Obama. What a complete angry bitter person she is. How does one go from the poor southside of Chicago to the Ivy League? Has this diversity push really improved things? It is ridiculous. Affirmative Action has created a class of people like the Obamas who are such hypocrites…

By Indie Voter

September 5, 2008 12:40 AM | Link to this

No doubt, it was a mistake, and no doubt he regrets saying it. But this Georgia native is obviously lying when he claims he didn’t know that “uppity” was a word designed to dismiss and put down African Americans. Is that word ever used for anything else? And what else does Rep. Westmoreland lie about? His constituents should remember that on election day.

By DisgustedtobereppedbyanIdiot

September 5, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this

He is incredibly IGNORANT.

Of COURSE “uppity” is an ugly, hurtful term, full of ugly history…and it did NOT need an adjective to precede it (as some have suggested).

The fact he even clarified that he said it shows his complete lack of understanding outside of anything outside of his little, white world.

I am NOT a minority-but I am sick to DEATH of fellow Georgians-esp. elected ones-proving over and over again that this state is filled with stupid, ignorant, insensitive people.

I’d sooner vote for Uppity Obama than anyone ol’ Lynnie associates with…..

By What is a Community Organizer?

September 5, 2008 12:46 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama blames all criticism of him as racist. The time for apologizing to this self-centered, prideful man is over.

When the Illinois senator loses the election in November, he will once again reach into his bag of excuses and select racism as his excuse-of-choice.

“As part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama’s official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate’s trademark “O” symbol.”

Obama acquired his elitist label the old fashioned way: He earned it.

By ccyr

September 5, 2008 12:51 AM | Link to this

Dear Disgusted - You know that precede means “to appear before in sequential order,” right? No doubt, you meant, there is no need for a noun or pronoun to follow the word uppity (again, rather than an adjective). I suppose, in your disgusted state, you merely confused “precede” with “follow” and nouns with adjectives. No worries. It can happen when one is in a disgusted mindset (but it kind of made you look stupid and ignorant).

By Sarah

September 5, 2008 12:52 AM | Link to this

OMG,

Why must we have these Georgia politicans who time and time again show their ignorance. Is it any wonder that the rest of the country think that Georgia is a* backwards when we have an a* in office representing us.

Westmoreland can forget about running for govenor in 2010, who the hell is gonna vote for him after making that racist, stupid comment—he really showed his true colors (no pun intended)

By ccyr

September 5, 2008 12:55 AM | Link to this

FayetteConstituent - You know that to refer to an African-American as “well-spoken” is also considered to be a racial slur, right? And, I guess, if you are refering to two African-Americans as “well-spoken” it’s doubly racist. I’m certain that you meant no racial offense but you need to be more careful.

By Salty Dog

September 5, 2008 12:59 AM | Link to this

Democrats play the race card when they can’t argue a point on its merits. Just call a Republican a racist and people will jump out of the woodwork to club him to death. But the facts paint a difference picture.

Actually, Democrats don’t care about race discrimination. They are the party of race discrimination. George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Bob Byrd—all Democrats. Senator Byrd, a former Klansman, is hailed as the “dean of the Senate” by his colleagues.

In two important legislative measures, Republican support exceeded that of Democrats by a substantial margin. Eighty percent of House Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act, but only 63 percent of Democrats. Eighty-two percent of Senate Republicans voted yea, while only 69 percent of Democrats did so. In the Senate’s final vote of the National Voting Rights Act (1965), 49 Democrats and 30 Republicans voted in favor of the measure, one Republican and 17 Democrats opposed. Senator Byrd voted against the measure. Byrd is the only Senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African Americans to have been nominated to the court. President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, nominated Thomas to the Supreme Court. Bush 43 chose Alberto Gonzales as the nation’s first Hispanic Attorney General. Under pressure from Democrats, Gonzales left office.

Democrats used race discrimination against Judge Bork in 1987 because they believed he would support overturning Roe v. Wade. Judge Bork had filed legal briefs in major civil rights cases and earned the respect of Justice Thurgood Marshall who said that Bork got a “bum deal” and had been “tarred unfairly as an enemy of black people” by the Democrats. Marshall also said “I think he’d have been a credit to this Court.” The Democrats couldn’t honestly debate any differences they had with Bork and reached for the “racism hammer.” And yes, it worked. Democrats also used the racism hammer against the nomination of Charles Pickering for a federal judgeship. Pickering was a Mississippi judge who prosecuted (and testified against) the Ku Klux Klan and whose family had to be protected against Klan death threats. All Democrats had to do was call him a racist and the willing suspension of disbelief ensued.

The NAACP ran ads calling President George W. Bush a murderer and claimed he was responsible for the 1998 death of James Byrd—a Black man who was savagely murdered in Texas. Two of the three defendants were sentenced to death while the third was given a life sentence. The NAACP used the racism hammer by running the ads. No wonder leading Republican candidates refrain from being used as cannon fodder by the Democrats.

Republicans support measures such as school vouchers that would remove Blacks from the permanent enslavement of public schools. Tonight, John McCain described education as the civil rights issue of this century. Republicans favor strong law-and-order measures that disproportionately benefit Blacks. One example: As Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani reduced crime by 70% compared to his predecessor, Mayor David Dinkins (a Black Democrat). Blacks benefited disproportionately because of the same-race nature of crime in that city. Expressed differently, more Blacks are alive in NYC than would have been the case in a Dinkins administration.

The racism hammer is the only reliable measure that Democrats can use against Republicans since they seldom win on the facts. Racism and name calling are the “one-two” punch of the Democrat party. At present, Blacks largely tow the line in the voting booth and are a reliable vote for the Dems.

But African-Americans are slowly but surely realizing the Republican party offers them a home. Black Republicans hold high offices in the current Bush administration and have run or are running for gubernatorial slots in a number of important states. In Georgia, Herman Cain ran a strong contest a few years ago and would have made an outstanding U.S. Senator.

Americans are tiring of racism as an excuse for poor performance, low standards, and crass behavior. Increasingly we are not afraid to speak out about it. Get used to it.

By LJ

September 5, 2008 1:05 AM | Link to this

It never fails to amaze me at how the liberal left grabs at straws in an attempt to twist, manipulate and create controversy. I can’t help but be amused by the double standards spewed. I suppose we conservatives could claim Hussein Obama called us all members of the KKK when he said we “hide behind our religion and our guns.” One definition of “uppity” found on dictionary.com is:

uppity

1880, from up; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive (first recorded use is in “Uncle Remus”). The parallel British variant uppish (1678) originally meant “lavish;” the sense of “conceited, arrogant” being first recorded 1734.

The only parallel between “uppity” and the “N” word is they both originated with dark complected folks; directed at dark complected folks.

In this Florida “crackers” vocabulary “uppity” means snobbish, putting on a false front and/or an appearance of I’m better than you, so there.

I don’t consider myself a racist, but if this nonsense continues over every little nit-picky innocent remark I just may go over to the “dark side”. Perhaps I should re-phrase that. I may just start talking the talk and not give a damn. I, along with my fellow Conservative Republicans are going to get accused of being racists anyway.

You can start calling me a racist when “we” get dedicated “white” television stations, a “white” history month, an “ivory” magazine, a “white” beauty pagent, a “white” American College fund,and so on and so on and so on.

I cry foul!!! I’m tired of being discriminated against because I’m WHITE!

By Frederick Douglass

September 5, 2008 1:24 AM | Link to this

“What is a community organizer”, you have my complete gratitude. You laid out a convincing argument for me to cast my vote for Obama,because if vile people like you disapprove of the man, he must be the guy we need to set this leaky vessel upright.

By RaymondRalph

September 5, 2008 1:45 AM | Link to this

I will tell you what is racist. Jesse Jackson is a racist. He uses the N word all the time. To watch some of his highlights watch this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY

By Rufus Paige

September 5, 2008 1:55 AM | Link to this

Westmoreland can forget about being Governor of Georgia. I will remember his racist comments towards the Obamas. We are not stupid and we all know that he used the word “uppity” in the racist code used in the South. The word does not fit anybody and I am sure a lot of Southern Republicans think that way about the Obamas. Dam if you do and Dam if you dont. Face it, there are people who are accomplished no matter where they come from.

By Herman

September 5, 2008 5:59 AM | Link to this

Anyone who saw this racist redneck on the Colbert show knows how ignorant and DUMB he is…and he had NO IDEA Colbert was playing him like a drum.How do people like this get elected? Anyone from the South knows the word uppidity applied to blacks who were perceived to aspire to rise above “their place”. This guy either knows that or is unbelievably DUMB.

By Dan Deacon

September 5, 2008 6:16 AM | Link to this

Have you noticed most everytime a black person is factually depicted….uppity, unkind, selfish - you know everyday descriptions of people (whether black of white) in general that fit the character, it’s all of a sudden “racial”. Let me tell the blacks the facts. If you’re uppity, you can that whether you’re white or black. That’s never been a racial characterization. The idiot that believes that is a moron. I suggest blacks start accepting responsibility like the rest of have to do and stop whining about someone being racist because they don’t believe what you believe or don’t agree with you. If you’re characterized by someone that you really are, then you have that characterization. If you’re characterized wronly (and it’s not racial and you must start to understand what is racial and what is not) then you’ve been wrongly characterized….NOT VICTIMIZED BY RACISM! Start taking responsibility and quit the whining. I’m tired of hearing it when it ain’t true. It makes the black person, crying racist without merit, a racist at that point. Take a moment and think about it.

By Renee

September 5, 2008 6:30 AM | Link to this

I hope this man loses his relection. There sure are a lot of racist comments on this blog. I’ts 2008. It’s itme to get over it. Skin color is simply pigment. The south can move into the 21st century or they can continue to watch the rest of the nation move forward while we sit here stagnantly.

By GodHatesTrash

September 5, 2008 6:43 AM | Link to this

Westmoreland is a wannabe lynchmobber, from a long line of racists and lynchmobbers. Georgia’s political history is full of halfwit kkknuckledragging morons just like Westmoreland - the Talmadges, Tom Watson, Lester “Uncle Fester” Maddox, and Zig-Zag Zell, who ran for Congress as a segregationist back in the 1960s.

He’s pure trash.

By Tom

September 5, 2008 6:54 AM | Link to this

Westmoreland clearly grew up in a different Georgia that I did. I’m in my mid-forties, white and a native Georgian and I have a hard time thinking of a time I heard the term “uppity” when it was not being used in a racially derogatory sense.

By mike

September 5, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it always amazing those on here who decide terms long used as racist terms of endearment now think these terms should have a different meaning just because they think so. Maybe you need to stop worrying about what black folks think about terms white folks use. Is it down deep in your heart you actually want things to go back the way the way it was. Lets see women not allowed to vote. Slaves to be had by folks who look like Duncemoreland.

By ATLDawgy

September 5, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

How can Obama be uppity but not Palin or any other politician these days? Just because you don’t agree with his platform doesn’t mean he’s uppity.

McCain and Biden are self-serving career politicians while Obama and Palin are trying to advance their careers but atleast they both have upside in their relative youth.

By Get Real

September 5, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

Look at it this way folks…If O’Bama Lama gets elected the race card can never ever be played again.

By Chester White

September 5, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

HA!

You see my comment just above? The word I used has nothing to do with the famous racial epithet; it’s derived from a Scandinavian language and means “parsimonious.”

Thank you SO MUCH for making my point, you mopes.

By Susan

September 5, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

I find it ironic that Westmoreland refers the them as “uppity.” I went to school with his daughter for several years, and never encountered someone so snobbish and elitist. I wonder where she learned that from? And by the way, I’m a Republican.

By news to me

September 5, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

I’m a 39 year old white male born and raised in the south and I’ve never heard uppity used in that connotation until this story broke. I suppose it’s a positive that I’ve never heard it used that way but sad that we still walk through a verbal minefield for the sins of our fathers, never knowing what archaic word is going to blow up in our faces.

By pam clayton

September 5, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

is it because you’re jealous of obama …………I think so!!

By WM

September 5, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Should the man lose, this country will burn. Ya’ll thought that no good Sherman burning Atlanta was bad, we haven’t seen nothing yet. The country is a racial powder keg and just needs that one spark to set it off…that spark could be the day after the general election and if Obama doesn’t win, well God help us all. I mean just look at this blog. So much hypocrasy and name calling. So the man used uppity as an adjective to describe a person. And so such person happens to be black. Id be willing to bet that nearly 100% of you that were “offended” by the use of the word in this context, didnt know the word may have had another meaning until the AJC wrote a column about it. Now, its “Oh he done called me Uppity!! He’s a racist” You want to ostrasize Westmoreland for setting back Georiga 50 years by using an adjective, yet many of you who sit around and analyze ever word that comes from a white person’s mouth do exactly the same thing. But I digress. I guess the mantra today is, if they don’t agree with me their racist.

By Jane

September 5, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Good grief, some folks can make any remark a racist one. “Uppity” = “snob.” The smartest thing I’ve ever heard Jesse Jackson say — “Barack Obama talks down to black people.” Well, yeah, he talks down to ALL people. Even the Reverend sees that! You think McCain could have gotten away with referring to a female reporter as “honey” (I think that’s what Obama called her. He had to publicly apologize the next day.) But he and Michelle do come across as snobs. I fail to understand how that possibly is construed as a racist remark. But, then again, ANY criticism of Obama seems to be construed by some people as being racially motivated. If you’re a Democrat and African American, wouldn’t you get sick and tired of being accused of just being racist anytime you criticized John McCain or George Bush? Perhaps you just disagree with their politics, and the color of their skin HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Get over it already!!!!!!!

By TIMEFORCHANGE

September 5, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

I have watched Obama, Hillary and McCain and the only one who has used the race card is Obama and he does it quite often. He is taking the position that the American people are stupid and I take that as an insult.

Obama has said there will be change but what? Higher taxes, more government funding bailouts for Freddi and Fannie, promising free healthcare to millions of people but taxing the daylights out of them to accomplish this, more earmarks for stupid things like fixing up a pink pig in the center of ones town.

Obama has an adjenda and its to become the next President. Not so fast there Obama. When your campain stoops so low as to go after children and boyfriends of the Republican Vice Presidential candidate you tell me one thing. You have no values as a man or a politician and you have lost my vote. Attacking children is unjust and in poor taste. I dont want anyone with those type of values running my country and providing my safety. If you will attach children to get what you want, think about what you will do to the general population. I dont want to know.

By Alex

September 5, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Having grown up during segregation this term “uppity” was used to define blacks that had the audacity to speak up and out against white supremacy. I heard it as a child being used in stores on the street and common place in the news…so dont tell me Westmoreland didn’t mean any harm. He knew exactly what he was saying. You’d have to have lived through it to understand .

By Proud Democrat

September 5, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Lynn thinks we’re too stupid to realize what the intent of his statement was. Lynn, we get it. Shame on you! Why don’t you just concentrate on McSame, scary Cindy and liar Sarah Palin who touted all the untruths about the Dem ticket the other night instead of mocking your opponent. You people are shameful. Kiss my arugula.

By Tomb

September 5, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Is it racist to refer to Obama as a “Mulatto” which he legally is?

By robert

September 5, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

I think the poorly educated, lack of common sense Republicans, in Georgia (remember they could not even get together and pass much needed tax breaks for us uppities) should be given any space in print or over the airwaves. We only need to hear they have been defeated in their next election. This will be happening in South Georgia with the dense jack Kingston.

By dogfan

September 5, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Bull! I was born and raised in the South and spent over 20 years in the Air Force and I have never heard “uppity” used in any racial connotation. Uppity - simply means snobbish. Anyone who tries to say otherwise is full of crap. I’ll leave it up to you to define “crap”.

By down south

September 5, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

any word used when speaking in a negative context about blacks is always racial. the double standard that exists in this country is sickening. I was raised in south ga & heard “uppity” all of my life & never thought it only applied to blacks. it was always used to describe anyone who thought that they were better than their peers or others. which should apply to all people of all races as that is one of the most repulsive traits that one can possess.

By Billy Slocumb

September 5, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

It takes an “uppity” to know one… Westmoreland (being a wealthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male) seemed a little “uppity” to me in 2004 when he voted to write hatred and discrimination into our state’s constitution.

By Brickton

September 5, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Let’s be honest about this. Westmoreland is a racist scumbag! The Obama people know it. They did the right thing by letting this go. You are better off not dealing with losers like Westmoreland.

By LJGetsTheFinger

September 5, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

LJ, there would not be any need for any Black/African American or Hispanic/Latino anything if America was fair. As far as Black History, there was only ONE history, but America did not put the contributions that blacks and others made to help build this Country in the history books. During Black History I was amazed at all of the inventions of black people that you use everyday that they do not get any recognition for in the American History books. Iron, ironing board, traffic light, etc. I am against having Black History month which is the shortest month of the year, when blacks and others should be in the American History books. Whites did not build this Country alone, but they want the credit & the glory. Now that is as racist as you get. You don’t even know the half of it being discriminated against as White. I am tired of MOST White Americans thinking that it is their “birthright” to be given the best schools, jobs, homes, etc. and not lift a finger to work for it. That’s what I am SICK & TIRED of. Stop looking in from the outside. This Country is suppose to be built on Christianity & it is the most racist of them all. I am not voting for Obama because he is Black/African American, but I feel he has more in common with the majority of America which is the working class. Rich people that have been rich all their lives don’t know what it is to struggle so they can not began to understand what Americans in America needs. The majority of the working class is not in their 70’s either. The working class keeps this Country going. If no one shows up for work the Country would not survive. My hats off to the working class. I do pray the struggle will be less soon.

By Lois

September 5, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

It sounds to me that this man has a problem himself. Perhaps he could describe himself with the same term. “Uppity”

By Steve

September 5, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

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WHEN was the Last Time that the use of this word, in the context that so many are claiming was done in contempt, was common place ? ? ?

How Long Ago ? ? ?

Geez …

Talk about Living in teh Past …

Move Forward Peoples …

It’s the 21st Century ! ! ! .

By gwinnettian

September 5, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Mr. Fulton Resident @456 : <>

hello…Westmoreland’s picture is posted beside this blog…sure looks like a white guy to me.

By petekeller

September 5, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

To everyone holding John McCain up as some paragon of virtue, remember this nugget from the Clinton era?

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

• John McCain, 1998

By Uppity 1

September 5, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

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.

A racial word?

That is about like saying or implying that just because you are from the south and use the work “uppity” you are a racist….both a signs of common sense run crazy!

My thoughts and life reflect those of Down South previously posted.

By Mechelle Johnson

September 5, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I am a freshman at West Senior High School and I plan to continue further education after highschool…Now as far as the “Uppity” comment…Everyone knows what he meant, some of you might think it’s ironic or whatever, but he meant a racial slur…He might as well had said, “Black man, learn to stay in your dumb place and recognize that it’s in your nature to be unknowledgeable and let’s keep it that way,” so don’t try to act like this dude is innocent. He’s old enough to be responsible of his actions, and him and ALL of those darn Republicans knew exaclty what he meant! I’ll be damned if I let those Reps. laugh in the face of My OBAMA!

By bmurray

September 5, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Yet another reason not to visit the south.

By Know your history

September 5, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Lynn Westmorland was born in 1950 and went to segregated schools. Trust me…he doesn’t think “uppity” means elite. I was born in 1968 know what the word “uppity” means when refering to a person of African/Afro Carribean/Afro Latino/etc heritage.

To some unlightened, frightened, and uneducated people this election is all about race and ethnicity. The saddest thing about it is that they are spreading this hate to their innocent children.

You better believe Westmorland will get a call and letter from me regarding his statement. He can kiss his congressional seat goodbye!

By Poor Lynn

September 5, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Poor Lynn he can’t help it. He only has a high school diploma, so lots of people are elitist to him. He couldn’t even graduate from a second rate junior college, so he dumps on American success stories like the Obama’s to make him feel better about himself. I think it bothers Lynn that people like the Obama’s are above his station in life. The Obama’s got where they are without money, power or priviledge on their side, so to call them elitist is just plain ignorant and to call them uppity is borderline racist.

I think Lynn Westmoreland is a prime example of the dumbing of the Georgia Republican Party and to some extent the national Republican Party. That convention hall in St. Paul didn’t represent America in 2008. Ironically, most of the people who were in that hall think their the “real Americans.” Do the math. The GOP is getting older, whiter, more rural in a country that is becoming more diverse and urban/suburban. Win or lose this is the last hoorah for the Reagan/Bush Republican Party. The Republican Party can either change or become a permanent minority. Lynn Westmoreland on the other hand would like to go back to the days of George Wallace and Lester Maddox.

Westmoreland probably is racist. He was one of the sponsors of a bill to recind the 1964 Voting Rights Act. Some would argue that it puts unfair regulations on Georgia, but with Karen Handel running elections I thank God for some degree of federal oversight of elections in Georgia.

By Calyn

September 5, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Lynn Westmorland was born in 1950 and went to segregated schools. Trust me…he doesn’t think “uppity” means elite. I was born in 1968 know what the word “uppity” means when refering to a person of African/Afro Carribean/Afro Latino/etc heritage.

To some unlightened, frightened, and uneducated people this election is all about race and ethnicity. The saddest thing about it is that they are spreading this hate to their innocent children.

You better believe Westmorland will get a call and letter from me regarding his statement. He can kiss his congressional seat goodbye!

By B REAL

September 5, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

I guess America is not used to a black man that doesn’t scratch where he doesn’t itch. Lynn Westmoreland typifies the conscience of most Amerikkkans that vote Republican. They like it when we Buck Dance and Jive all day long for Massa.

By Manus

September 5, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

‘Uppity’…. There are those who want racism to be a thing of the past. There are those who think that we as African-Americans need to get over ourseleves and stop complaining. Well let’s see how this really works, the Republican Party and its cohorts can use fear tactics (ex. Birth of a Nation) disparage and revive fears European-Americans harbor about African-Americans. Well, coming from an ‘Uppity’ family and being ‘Uppity’ so I’ve been told, by European-American men, in the South. These comments neither surprise or astonish me; this kind of thinking and this can of person will in the next 6 -8 weeks bring to light how far this nation has to go in undoing her past.

By Calyn

September 5, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Lynn Westmorland was born in 1950 and went to segregated schools. Trust me…he doesn’t think “uppity” means elite. I was born in 1968 know what the word “uppity” means when refering to a person of African/Afro Carribean/Afro Latino/etc heritage.

To some unlightened, frightened, and uneducated people this election is all about race and ethnicity. The saddest thing about it is that they are spreading this hate to their innocent children.

You better believe Westmorland will get a call and letter from me regarding his statement. He can kiss his congressional seat goodbye!

By Obama08

September 5, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

I’m from Congressman Westmoreland’s district and am embarrassed by his ignorant and redneck comments. I cant wait until hes up for reelection and we can vote his incompetant a$$ out of office.

By Obama08

September 5, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

I’m from Congressman Westmoreland’s district and am embarrassed by his ignorant and redneck comments. I cant wait until hes up for reelection and we can vote his incompetant a$$ out of office.

By Tman

September 5, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

It amazes me (I am white) that Obama will not win any Southern states where most of the black population resides in our nation. The majority of the white people in our state and most of these southern states cannot and will not vote for a black or half white president Just look at the numbers. The race card will be played until people vote outside color lines that also includes minorities. This election has definitely brought the race card out. Many White people tell me I cant vote for Obama with no real reason I sense a bit of racism I am no pollyanna to the race issues that are still prevelant in our country no matter what the Republicans say

By B REAL

September 5, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Westmoreland,Zell Miller,Sonny Perdue,Casey Cagle, Ralph Reed, Karen Handel are all cut from the same Confederate Cloth. As history has shown back in the day that whenever a black person recieved the tag “Uppity”, his family would most certainly recieve a visit from the “Night Riders” to teach that boy a lesson. Wake up Amerikkka, race still matters in this country to most people like the aforementioned.

What the Obama’s signify is the real American Dream of overcoming great odds. I thought Republicans were all about hard work and achievement and self determination. Whenever a black person does rise above all odds they always find a way to inject race. Uppity, elitist, articulate are all buzzwords for that a “N word” and he is not one of us.

I’m not surprised at Westmoreland because he has proven that the Klan no longer wears sheets but suits. GIVE’EM HELL OBAMA. Lookout fried chicken and collard greens at the inauguration ball.

By tcoach

September 5, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

So when I was going to college in south Georgia were people being racist when they called me uppity? I was unaware it was a racist term. Because they would call me uppity but I am white, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and as pasty as can be.

By SteveO

September 5, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Obama thinks he’s so great. Just cause he’s some single parent kid that worked his way to Columbia and then to President of the Harvard Law Review don’t make him special.

He should be more like a real American! A guy like me! A person that shuns hard work in school. A person that avoids making the extra effort to get ahead in life.

Listen hear Obama! Just because you’re harder working and more intelligent than me doesn’t mean nothing. Us real Americans understand what it’s all about. Sitting around and criticizing people who work hard.! USA USA USA!

By Jessica

September 5, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Of course he’s going to say they’re “uppity”, he has no more than a high school education! He attended GA State Univ for 2 years but didn’t get a degree! Michelle and Barack are very well educated at prestigious universities and Westmoreland graduated from high school! That means to Westmoreland, someone with an AA from GA Perimeter is “uppity”. He ghetto-ignorant!!!

By Gwenola

September 5, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

You can criticize, but it sounds like Westmoreland is ashamed of himself. I suggest that he does something tangible for his constituents so he can keep that seat warm at the Capitol. Also, someone needs to tell him and others like, that there are millions of Blacks with Ivy League education. I guess that makes us uppity, I don’t think so, just educated enough to know how to phrase.

By ej

September 5, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

“Someone recently reminded me how the south was always democratic and when blacks started populating the south in huge numbers the white southerner changed to republican. That shows that the republican party still stands for segregation. Don’t get it twisted this country truly is not the land of the free!!!”

By The Truth Comes Out

September 5, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Why I’m voting Democrat

I’m voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. Im voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I’m voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

I’m voting Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as they see fit.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe three or four elitist liberals need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe element who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that when the terrorists from over there come over here, I don’t want to have any guns in the house to fight them off.

I’m voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my motorcycle.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

Makes you wonder why anyone would ever vote Republican, right?

Obama=Ohellno

By ARE YOU KIDDING ME

September 5, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

LET ME FIRST START BY SAYING THAT, DO WE NOT HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH THAT A CONGRESSMAN CALLING OBAMA “UPPITY”? DO ANY OF YOU HAVE JOBS TO GO TO OR CHILDREN TO ATTEND TO OR SOMETHING. COME ON FOLKS, WE ALL HAVE HEARD SINCE THIS STORY BROKE THAT THE TERM “UPPITY” IS IN SOME WAY RACIST!!! BUT REALLY HOW DO WE USE IT? WE USE IT TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE IN BUCKHEAD OR PEACHTREE CITY WHO USES EXPENSIVE GOLF CARTS TO GET AROUND TOWN AND WHOS PARENTS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO 20,000 A YEAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS, WHY? BECAUSE THEY CAN!!! THEY ARE “UPPITY” TO ME. IM 31 YEARS OLD, AND I HAVE NEVER EVER IN MY 31 YEARS ON THIS EARTH EVER AND I MEAN EVER HEARD THIS TERM USED IN THIS MANNER. DOES THAT MAKE ME STUPID OR IGNORANT? NO IT DOES NOT, IF ALL YOU RETARDED DUMBA_ ES, OH IM SORRY DID I OFFEND ANYONE BY SAYING “RETARDED”!!! SO SORRY, IF YOU KNOW HIM THEN YOU KNOW THAT HE IS NOT RACIST AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANT BY IT. SO TAKE YOUR WHINEY AS SOMEWHERE ELSE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT STUFF THAT ACTUALLY HAS SUBSTANCE!!! BET YOU 1 MILLION HE GETS RE-ELECTED AGAIN, NOT BECAUSE THERE ARE IGNORANT PEOPLE THAT ARE VOTING HIM IN, CAUSE HE ACTUALLY DOES DO A GREAT JOB IN CONGRESS AND ACTUALLY HAS REPRESENTED HIS CONSTITUENTS THE WAY HE SHOULD. CHECK OUT HIS VOTING RECORD PEOPLE THAT WILL SAY IT ALL. WHO REALLY HAS TIME FOR THIS

By BJ

September 5, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Why would you be surprised about the use of the word “uppity” coming from a southern white redneck when referring to intelligent, articulate and educated black people. There is a campaign going on in the four corners of the country to aggressively launch an attack against this movement that has called so many to action - for change, real change. Ninety-five percent of the republicans do not want change of any kind. They have it too good. So, watch out; this is only the beginning. The racial remarks and comments from “high” places have only just begun.

By Al

September 5, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Head Hunter says that you all forget that culturally inept, clueless person such as Lyn “W” is a real conservative (Segregationist)that has to live in a diverse world as his is going extinct. He knows what uppity means or otherwise he would not have said it. You see, he was a Democrate first and then went Republican. The Segregationist Hijacked the Republican Party in the Mid Sixties because the Demo seated black delegates. Lyn is not an average REDNECK, he is a SLICK REDNECK that represent all people in his district (black and White). He can be removed democratically. VOTE his RACIST A* OUT IMMEDIATLY!!!

By ron

September 5, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

it had racial overtones and there is no dobut about it.blacks are familiar with white code words.

By Stan

September 5, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I rather be Uppity than White Trash. and that what Palin is. McCain is just plain crazy. He has Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and he will have the nuke box in his hands.You Wackos will put these losers in the Whitehouse

By Tman

September 5, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

The Republicans have always felt that hearses should be able to pull a u-haul behind them

By Jessica

September 5, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Of course he’s going to say they’re “uppity”, he has no more than a high school education! He attended GA State Univ for 2 years but didn’t get a degree! Michelle and Barack are very well educated at prestigious universities and Westmoreland graduated from high school! That means to Westmoreland, someone with an AA from GA Perimeter is “uppity”. He is ghetto-ignorant!!!

By Ron

September 5, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Poor word choices is a result of an individuals’ lack of knowledge about the group of people that can be adversely affected by the comments.

By Learn to use Capslock

September 5, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Are you kidding me is an example of someone who doesn’t know how to use the capslock button.

And your failure to use that button shows that you are, in fact, an ignorant moron.

Also, just saying, “I’m not racist!” is not enough to really determine whether you are one or not. The real question is, do you have the same mentality as the people who ran the state 40 years ago who felt that the Separate but Equal was viable.

And given that Republicans still like to play ‘lets pretend’ and say things like ‘we’re agents of change’ when they don’t really intend to change anything except perhaps lower taxes for the rich MORE and get rid of government, no matter what part of government that is, MORE then there is every reason to believe that anyone who says the word “Uppity” is, in fact a racist.

By Tman

September 5, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

The Republicans have always felt that hearses should be able to pull a u-haul behind them

By Ronald Robinson

September 5, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Is the congressman from mars? Everyone over 30 knows that the term uppity when applied to Blacks means the Black person in question is attemting to rise above their appointed station in life. I am calling the congressman a liar. He knows what the term means.

By Lynn is a dummy

September 5, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50142715536&ref=ts

Join the “Lynn Westmoreland is Crazy” group on facebook.

By Grey Mist

September 5, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Well, he’s my Congressman and he’s as dumb as a post. Colbert made him look like the moron he is. He couldn’t even recite the Ten Commandments. That’s cause he’s a phony lightweight. Now, we know he’s a racist too. Anyone who’s spent time in the South knows that word is racist.

By tcoach

September 5, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Tman so if I choose to vote against Obama it is all because he is half black. You think maybe it could be because he accepts funding froma terrorist, or that as a communty organizer he worked under a group that supports a communist interest, or definatly not because he thinks that all I do when times get tough is to go get my gun and go to church. I get what you are doing trying to guilt the undecided vote into voting for Obama. Not everything that happens to black people is because of white peoples “great hate of blacks”. Do you remember the Olympic village and surrounding area. Remember how nice it looked after all of those white people cleaned it up for the olympics in ‘96. Then remember by ‘98 how it was infested with crime and the buildings had been spray painted everywhere. I guess that was white people sneaking in and doing it at night huh. I am white, and proud of my heritage, none of my relatives have been members of the Klan or anything like that. But I guess because I think Obama is wrong not just for his tax me cause I’m successful policy and the issues listed above, that makes me a racist. Well I think you are a racist clown who is only not voting for McCain because he is a white guy and there just happens to ba a half black guy running against him.

By Tman

September 5, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

it amazes me how biased these political emails are and how each party adds a spin to each topic that distorts the truth and puts fear in the hearts of our populace.

The Republicans have been in office 8 years, in the majority of the house and senate for 6 years, and have had upper hand in the supreme court 5-4 for these 8 years. So if Abortion should have been abolished or criminalized why haven’t they ? It only comes up at election time

I suppose we should just write off the trillion dollars of debt mainly due to a war of policing the Muslims in Iraq who we detest and fear by dropping our taxes.

Finally the most important issue and the greatest fear in our society and in this election, make sure gay people stay put. The republicans have feared for years the advancement of gay people in churches, jobs and should they marry our country will tumble. I am against abortions, gay people decisions do not affect me, but paying a 1/4th of my salary for healthcare is appalling.

The next thought is not email generated It is my own thought I dont need email to make my decisions.

“I cannot believe that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican ! The republicans now days would think it would be “liberal thinking” to free the slaves. Keep those people in their place too.”

Mccain will win mainly because our country cannot and is not ready to vote for a black man even when he is half white. I am not a republican or a democrat but I will vote for Obama I am a Christian which means I am my brothers keeper.

Thanks Harvey

By Grey Mist

September 5, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

He’s my Congressman and he’s dumb as a post. Now, we know he’s a racist too. No one who lives here believes that crap he’s peddling. He’s just another Republican pig. Another old white guy who belongs to the party on the wrong side of history.

By Ginger

September 5, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

I do not believe this man when he says he has never known the term “uppity” to denote black folks who don’t know their place. I am also a white southerner, like Mr. W, and am very familiar with that term and its double meaning. Gee, a lying Republican. Imagine that!

By threedeep

September 5, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

It appears he would have a president in mccain who graduates in the bottom 5 of 800+ midshipmen from the Naval Academy and a vice president who had to attend 5 colleges in 6 years just to get a BS in journalism. He is the idiot.

By Tman

September 5, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Arguements are good but making personal remarks towards me means you have no material to argue with and you have lost the arguement. Explain to me how Iowa has 98% white population and Obama will win that state But Georgia has 49% white population and Mccain will win our state Leave out the personal attacks and argue with facts

By threedeep

September 5, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Election night surprise, Obama wins GA. It is no longer a red state but pink, and in about 60 days it will be blue. We just need Sonny to get out on the stump with Palin and McCain and that should do it.

By deegee

September 5, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Lynn was probably caught up in the rapture of the highly charged, Palinesque atmosphere surrounding the 4-day White Wonderbread Republican National Convention. If he hadn’t been drunk on the white lightning he might have caught himself before he described the Obamas as uppity. I suppose that he has done it so many times before with a wink and a nod that he just got too comfy with it. Loose lips sink ships and all that stuff…

By old91A10

September 5, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

I am sure I have heard the word ‘uppity’ used now and then over many years, but I have never known it to be a racial invective, and I can’t seem to pinpoint once where it could have been used the way being discussed here (i.e., as a well-known, disparagement by white against black).

I don’t use the word, but that is merely because I would be more inclined to use ‘conceited’ and ‘snob’, or to be more folksy, ‘thinks he’s the big frog’, ‘head too big for his hat’, ‘made him(her) king(queen)’.

Two more recent times I do recall hearing it are (a) a 40-ish white woman saying it about a 30-ish white woman, and (b) a 30-ish man of color saying it about a business owner (unknown to me) of a different color.

The first case of ‘uppity’ had nothing to do with racism, because it was about cars, clothes, and jealousy. In the second case, I found the diatribe offensive for many reasons and said so. The word ‘uppity’ had nothing to do with my reaction, so I remain clueless about it being a keyword of deep and bitter meaning.

Though anecdotal, I’ve lived in the south for over twenty years, and the most frequent prejudicial language used seems to come from (a) people of a particular color against people of two other particular colors or ethnicities, and (b) white people against other white people of a particular religious background. Reprehensible — and, I will always immediately call you out on it!

I don’t know Westmoreland, and this is not a defense of him, but I think more evidence is needed of patterns of using other offensive language (directed at any identifiable segment of society). Please do more verifiable research before reacting.

I dimly recall a case of outrage over either the word ‘denigrate’ or ‘renege’ that was covered many years back in the AJC. I completely excuse the accuser’s initial unfamiliarity with the word. But, even after it was shown to be completely unrelated to prejudicial language, the charge was continued based on spelling and phonetic similarities — ridiculous!

By threedeep

September 5, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Election night surprise, Obama wins GA. It is no longer a red state but pink, and in about 60 days it will be blue. We just need Sonny to get out on the stump with Palin and McCain and that should do it.

By T-Stake

September 5, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Actually it is perfectly possible to attack both you and the substance of your ideas.

I am beginning to think that some how in some planet Republican somewhere they actually really BELIEVE that they haven’t been making vicious biting and nasty personal attacks for 20 years and that Democrats have just somehow invented the tactic.

And sadly, people are morons…so you have to use them. But given the choice between having Republicans in charge another 8 years and being ‘nice’ I say pour out the acid boys.

By WORDS

September 5, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Oh the heck with it all…any word that is used to describe an AfroAmerican that does not further their cause is a racially motivated statement that requires an apology. Why can’t a white man say what he feels without worry? In fact, what can’t whites have a white Miss America?

By Liven

September 5, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

I dont often call anyone a liar but Westmoreland is a liar, without any doubt at all. Unless he lived in a cave there is no way he didnt know. He was born in 1950 in the South.. I was more in the mid 50s in the way North and I knew it. I thought that Ameericans had evolved beyond these harmful and destructive people like Westmoreland. I guess there has to be some who get left behind.. You Mister Westmoreland are a liar and a racist, step down and go away.

By Keeping It Real

September 5, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Lynn Westmoreland is my representative and he is a racist. He has said other things like this. He is not significant and is of no importance to the world. I vote against him continously. However he represents a constituency that mostly shares his beliefs. He is harmless as long as he is not given a position of power. If the republicans win the presidency and/or regain control of the House, then he will be a problem.

By Dave

September 5, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Wow, these desperados are pulling out all of the stops!!!

can you say henchman!

By Johnny Montez

September 5, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Well..at least we know the truth..all these attacks are just veiled racism..finally the Veil has dropped!

By The Truth Comes Out

September 5, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

As I read these posts I am not surprised to see that 95% of the racist comments are coming from black people. Look in the mirror and you will find the racist.

By History of Defeat

September 5, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Did you know in Japan they keep altering the history of what happened more and more? They refuse to admit their mistake in history so they keep trying to whitewash it.

Words…I could use a lot of swear words to describe your statement but they’d be filtered out by blogs. Words matter. Words change the world. Ideas and images matter.

The question is the substance behind them. Do you spend hours of careful thought formulating them or do you get a focus group together to find out what sounds good and then repeat ‘Thousand points of light’ ‘Drill For Oil’ and ‘Change You can Xerox!’ over and over again until it sticks?

How about:

How many houses again? $500 Shoes. “It was about Economics, not slavery!” Shooting Wolves From A Helicopter.

America might be stupid, but eventually even Democrats can learn the game.

By Politically Correct

September 5, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

Ok…Just so everyone knows which words are off-limits, will someone please publish a comprehensive list of words that no one should use in reference to Obama and African-Americans in general? Because, in the land of free speech, we need to know which words should not be used.

By BiteMe

September 5, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

I cannot believe this - Uppity is racists?!?! Uppity always meant antsy to me……my God, it looks like every single word muttered by anyone non-black will be taken out of context. This is already like a modern day witch hunt against whitey! Stop trying to find racism in EVERY CORNER, PEOPLE! Seriously, if Obama is elected, this is what we have to look forward to?!?!!

By Cornell Keith

September 5, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Uppity huh? Well Michelle shops at Target for the stuff she wears in public. While Cindy wears a 300K outfit to the RNC

Now that is Spending we can beleive in.

By jesse

September 5, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

you rascist a***** (of course I am speaking to you, westmoreland)!

By T Whalen

September 5, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Lynn never saw “Blazing Saddles?”

By READ

September 5, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Hey DAN DEACON Have you ever gone to school or read a book. I challenge you to find the word “uppity” in any book where it is used to describe a white person.. It has been a racist remark and it will always carry those negative characteristics because of the harm done in the awful time in our history.. Read a book Dan

By The List

September 5, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Here is the list of vile curse words someone should never say.

the B word (Bush) the R word (Republican) the D word (‘Drill Fer Oil!) the C word (‘Change you can Xerox!’) the F word (‘Republicans are Feminists’!) the S word (‘Surgesurgesurgesurgysurgh! It worked! It worked! Bwaahahahahahah! It’s ALIVE!) the P word (‘Patreaus. It is the Patraeus Charm. I am commander and chief and the decider except when I screw up and then it is Patraeus who is wise and compotent and if you attack him you attack our men and women in the armed forces so therefore I can do no wrong and bow before me.’) the H word (Houses.) The W word (Shooting Wolves from Helicopters!) the U word (Uppity. As in Uppity Republicans)

That help?

By Westmoreland's greatest hits

September 5, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zXftyVAhk

Here’s a clip of Lynn Westmoreland praising Blackwater during a house committee hearing. According to Lynn Westmoreland holding private contractors in Iraq accountable for their actions is a step toward socialism in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd239X4LPa4

Here’s the famous clip of Westmoreland botching the ten commandments on the Colbet Report.

By tcoach

September 5, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Read, What about “Uppity Women of Medieval Times” by Vicki Leon Or: “Uppity Christian Plauge” by Abbey Press Or: “Mr. Upitty” by Roger Hargreaves and that is a childrens’ book

None of those even talk about it in the context you would have it to be.

By dj

September 5, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Puh-leez! I grew up in Atlanta, white, upper middle class… the ONLY time I heards the term “uppity” it was followed by the n-word… Of course it is a word in the english language that has been used countless times in other ways, but c’mon. In this context… you can’t talk your way out of that.

By Keeping It Real

September 5, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

The Truth Comes Out,

For many years, black people could not address racist attacks from white people without being beat, killed or run out of town. It takes time to let this go.

However, the state of Iowa changed a lot of blacks in the way they feel about whites. For a state that is 95% white to vote for a black person is testament of the change in racial relations for all of us. I never thought that I would experience the possibility that a qualified black person would be considered for President of the United States. We now have black kids talking about being president in lieu of playing basketball in the NBA. This is a big deal and we all need to recognize it.

By Uppity Animals

September 5, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Shooting Uppity Wolves In Helicopters.

Thanks Palin.

Now we’ll see if Obama is smart enough to use the equivalent of the Bear ad or the Willie Horton ad.

This could cost you uppity republicans the election.

(There, I’m using the word in reference to white people, does it make you feel better?)

By old91A10

September 5, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

@Keeping It Real “… he is a racist.” and “He has said other….” Again, I am not defending Westmoreland, and I am not saying you are right or wrong. But, please cite some of these cases. Otherwise your comment carries no real weight, is of itself careless language, and may even be characterized as racist.

Because of the fervor of comments, I will take it that ‘uppity’ is a racially denigrating keyword in particular contexts and usages. I must add that the contexts and usages I have in mind are themselves racist, and would remain such even if ‘conceited’ were used instead of ‘uppity’. Context, usage, and prior habits are not only very important considerations, but are necessary evidence.

Over the years, I have been lucky that ‘conceited’ or ‘head too big’ would be much more likely to come out of my mouth than ‘uppity’, but in no case would any context or usage be interpreted as prejudicial. As such, I may have accidently escaped the possibilities of false charges.

By Dave

September 5, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

I found this in his Wikipedia page”“During a 2006 campaign stop in Georgia, Westmoreland discribed the “days of the Klans” as “the good ‘ol days.”

This is from AP “Westmoreland is one of the most conservative members of Congress. He has drawn criticism from civil rights advocates on a number of issues, including last year when he led opposition to renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He also was one of two House members last year who opposed giving the Justice Department more money to crack unsolved civil rights killings.

By Dave

September 5, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

I found this in his Wikipedia page”“During a 2006 campaign stop in Georgia, Westmoreland discribed the “days of the Klans” as “the good ‘ol days.”

This is from AP “Westmoreland is one of the most conservative members of Congress. He has drawn criticism from civil rights advocates on a number of issues, including last year when he led opposition to renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He also was one of two House members last year who opposed giving the Justice Department more money to crack unsolved civil rights killings.

By soma

September 5, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

WOW….FEELINGS ARE SO SENSITIVE THESE DAYS……WHEN DID UPPITY BECOME RACIST? …COME ON PEOPLE, ECONOMNY, JOBS, HOUSING, GAS PRICES AND OTHER THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT…..TO ME THE ENTRIE CONGRESS, SENATORS ARE UPPITY AND NEED TO COME OFF THEIR HIGH HORSE….. I’M NOT EVEN SURE IF I WILL GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE THIS YEAR…

By SusannahK

September 5, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

What I want to know is why are Republicans such bad spellers?

By Darla

September 5, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

This is the dumbest article. Look up the definition of “uppity”. It is “arrogance” “snobbish”. Try as you might. It is NOT a racial term.
If you personally have ever used it as such, then you are ignorant and need to improve your vocabulary.
Stop TRYING to instigate hate and racism, evolve evolve evolve your mind. You will achieve much much more.
Think about saving our environment and stop wasting ink and our paper for something so hate filled and ignorant. Use your dictionary next time.

By Keeping It Real

September 5, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

old91A10,

I assume that you are a white person.If you lived in the 40’s, 50’s 60’s,70’s,80’s, 90’s and now the 2000’s, and you were a black citizen of the USA, you have heard this word used in the context of a racial slur i.e. uppity N word. If you were lucky, you were not beat, lynched, castrated, raped or murdered by the locals including the police and/or sheriff. If you have never heard this term before, consider yourself fortunate.

By JG

September 5, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

So I guess it’s fine to call Rep. Westmoreland a “cracker”, then, because that’s what he is!

And it’s “Messiah”, for the earlier poster’s comment.

By Darla

September 5, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

This is the dumbest article. Look up the definition of “uppity”. It is “arrogance” “snobbish”. Try as you might. It is NOT a racial term.
If you personally have ever used it as such, then you are ignorant and need to improve your vocabulary.
Stop TRYING to instigate hate and racism, evolve evolve evolve your mind. You will achieve much much more.
Think about saving our environment and stop wasting ink and our paper for something so hate filled and ignorant. Use your dictionary next time.

By Darla

September 5, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

This is the dumbest article. Look up the definition of “uppity”. It is “arrogance” “snobbish”. Try as you might. It is NOT a racial term.
If you personally have ever used it as such, then you are ignorant and need to improve your vocabulary.
Stop TRYING to instigate hate and racism, evolve evolve evolve your mind. You will achieve much much more.
Think about saving our environment and stop wasting ink and our paper for something so hate filled and ignorant. Use your dictionary next time.

By Darla

September 5, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

This is the dumbest article. Look up the definition of “uppity”. It is “arrogance” “snobbish”. Try as you might. It is NOT a racial term.
If you personally have ever used it as such, then you are ignorant and need to improve your vocabulary.
Stop TRYING to instigate hate and racism, evolve evolve evolve your mind. You will achieve much much more.
Think about saving our environment and stop wasting ink and our paper for something so hate filled and ignorant. Use your dictionary next time.

By Keeping It Real

September 5, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Carla,

You appear to be very intelligent. However,you need to enhance your intelligence by reading about the civil rights movement and history before speaking your mine on something you are not qualified to address. You must be very young if you do not realize that the USA has and will continue to evolve its collective mine.

By Right

September 5, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Quit trying to associate the word uppity with Republicans instead.

Because Republicans are elitist.

Because Republicans lie.

Because Republicans like to shoot wolves out of helicopters.

By Shep

September 5, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Yeah…Old lady Cindy McCain wore clothes this week that cost more than most the delegates at the convention this week make in a month, and she and her husband are worth over $40M yet the Obamas are “uppity”. With all the pompous candidates over the years (e.g. Mitt Romney), funny how the word “uppity” eminates from the mouth of a good ‘ol southern redneck aimed at a black candidate. Things that make you go hmmmmm… Go back to the sticks where you come from Westmoreland and shut it up!

By tcoach

September 5, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

So I guess that you all think it is ok for JG to call someone a “cracker”. How is that any different than if someone called anyone the “N” word. See how I have to call it the “N” word because everyone will go nuts if someone writes or says it regardless of the context. What a double standard, a racial slur is a racial slur. So is teh word “redneck” for those of you that do not know. Black people are racist

By Black Helicopters

September 5, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

No but it is OK to say that Sarah Pallin likes to shoot wolves out of Helicopters.

By KevinA

September 5, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Goeoria is ashamed. Why do Republicians have a problem kicking the racism tag? Hmmmmmmmmmm

By old91A10

September 5, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

@Dave discribed[sic] the “days of the Klans”

I visited wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland) and a few of its links, and can not locate the above quotation. Please provide the URL you used, and if possible, the chain of links leading from it to a reliable eye-witness account.

You may have a point with regard to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. However, I’ve heard some reasonable arguments against it, but personally believe a rewrite is in order for strength, breadth, and generality (especially in this new era of the e-vote, appreciation of the many minorities who might be affected, and the new call for overly stringent voter ID). Whether pro or con, arguments about it are not necessarily racist. The same can be said about any conversations that might address contributions by both Reverend King and President Johnson.

Wikipedia is not the end-all be-all of research, although it can be a reasonable jumping off point. Be very critical though, since anybody can enter anything at any time. One of the links contained in the Lynn Westmoreland article (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-shipler16apr16,0,2335261.story) is amusing because of its conflated and muddled truisms, truthy-isms, and the manic political circumstances and hidden agenda surrounding it.

By JG

September 5, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

tcoach: It’s SARCASM! I’m white, Southern, and “uppity” has been used racially as a slam since times of slavery and still is in far too many quarters — just as “cracker” and “white trash” and to a worse degree, the “N” word have been used for hate and bigotry. And, no, it’s not okay, particularly to feign ignorance!

By Diamonion

September 5, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

that ornry negro needs to be less uppity and have his 5 tailors sew $300,000 outfits on his wife one thread at a time just like all the other down to earth blue collar republicans.

By Diamonion

September 5, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

that ornery negro needs to be less uppity and have his 5 tailors sew $300,000 outfits on his wife one thread at a time just like all the other down to earth blue collar republicans.

By tcoach

September 5, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

My question is were is the outrage for that. Why is one racial slur ok while another one can ruin your life(depending on your job) if it is ever uttered out of your mouth? Is that not a double standard. You could not use the “N” word in sarcasm, so why choose to use that word either.

By rascalofearth

September 5, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Although Southern Culture On The Skids is one of my favorite bands….especially the song Shotgun which kept playing in my head whenever the camera flashed upon that upstanding young hockey player…. I am from Massachusetts and so ignorant of your genteel Southern ways.

Can some one explain when it is appropriate to attack someone with uppidty vs bougie?

By mom

September 5, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Distraction…This is the word of the day. The republicans are clearly on edge. They are grasping at straws to hold on. Yes the word UPPITY was the buzz during earlier times. We as Obama/Biden supporters know that they are down to earth and very approachable. They have been in the trenches when that was not a popular thing to do as community organizers. The Mccains have only gone overseers to help REGULAR people. I wonder why. Where is Cindy’s sister why was she left out the video on FAMILY? We know where Obama’s brother is but has anyone asks him if he is surviving because their way of living is different from ours. The only thing we should be interested in right now is that Mccain’s health plan will give $5,000 tax credit but guess what it will also allow your employers to tax premiums on us that get insurance through employer group. Now most of us get premiums deducted before taxes. This is an uppity issue that their family won’t have to worry about. They will take away the remainder of the pell grant but MCcain’s can send their kids to college on what’s in the trust fund. Don’t give people the time nor the audience go to the polls please. I am not a foot solder for Obama but I am a supporter and I read and research.

By mom

September 5, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Distraction…This is the word of the day. The republicans are clearly on edge. They are grasping at straws to hold on. Yes the word UPPITY was the buzz during earlier times. We as Obama/Biden supporters know that they are down to earth and very approachable. They have been in the trenches when that was not a popular thing to do as community organizers. The Mccains have only gone overseers to help REGULAR people. I wonder why. Where is Cindy’s sister why was she left out the video on FAMILY? We know where Obama’s brother is but has anyone asks him if he is surviving because their way of living is different from ours. The only thing we should be interested in right now is that Mccain’s health plan will give $5,000 tax credit but guess what it will also allow your employers to tax premiums on us that get insurance through employer group. Now most of us get premiums deducted before taxes. This is an uppity issue that their family won’t have to worry about. They will take away the remainder of the pell grant but MCcain’s can send their kids to college on what’s in the trust fund. Don’t give people the time nor the audience go to the polls please. I am not a foot solder for Obama but I am a supporter and I read and research.

By As compared to people

September 5, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Who like to shoot wolves from Helicopters.

Democrats=Not people who like to shoot wolves from helicopters.

Republicans=People who think a Hockey Mom who cackles with glee while gunning down a wolf with a moose gun from a helicopter is AOK with them.

By old91A10

September 5, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

@Keeping It Real — 2:18 PM You’re correct, including all of those decades.

I hope you understand my bewilderment over ‘uppity’ (see any dictionary, today’s AJC crossword puzzle 30 Across, and my prior comments).

I really do believe that I may have accidently escaped the possibilities of false charges, merely because ‘uppity’ is not a word that would come to mind before ‘conceited’, ‘snob’, or more folksy, non-loaded expressions.

One would be very wrong-headed to call me a racist (which you did not), but it seems I may have lived my life only a few syllables away from infamy (disregarding lack of context and intent).

Thus, my tendency would be to demand more extensive and concrete proof of charges such as these.

The context in this issue includes “Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual ….,” which seems to provide leeway in Lynn Westmoreland’s defense (again, I am neither pro- nor anti-LW).

Here, it is very possible that the underlying thoughts are about “empathy for consumers’ woes” expressed as “cost of arugula” rather than “milk, beans, or hamburger.” That is pretty f’n detached and elitist!

By the way, I posted requests for you and Dave. Perhaps you’ve already responded while I was cleaning up my tools and scarfing down lunch.

By HotInATL

September 5, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

What I want to know is this. Do all you people who support McCain really think he is in touch with you and your needs or lives the same type of life you live. When was the last time you ladies spent $300,000 on a dress. Ask Cindy McCain or better yet, Do you really think Cindy McCain shops at the local Wal-Mart or JcPenny. Who is the real elitist????

By Janet

September 5, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I’ll show you uppity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY

By Last time I checked....

September 5, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

It wasn’t Democrats that were teh Gey.

That was Republicans.

Who like to shoot Wolves from helicopters.

By LizaMarie

September 5, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Look at this footage of Palin murdering wolves:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY