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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:12 AM Original message |
Republican defends use of ‘uppity’ |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. He's a liar and he knows it.......he knows that he's heard it his |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. The correct and incorrect use of the word... |
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BattyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
2. “I’ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense" |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I'd warrant he never heard it used in any OTHER way. . . |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. yep |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
32. He's such a liar! |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sure, & crackers like Westmoreland are made by ritz. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
41. snort. |
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MinneapolisMatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
4. LIAR. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. Bullshit. |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Funny |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, I guess at least he's somewhat ashamed by his overt racism. |
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jjanpundt (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. When I lived in Georgia the word "uppity" was only |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
27. Not to mention the "L" word: "Lynching". Ditto on the lying sack of shit. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
10. "Ain't nevah heahd oh grits meanin' corn before neithah" |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
11. Macaca, anyone? |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. A race neutral term such as "arrogant" or "elite" would have gotten his |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
47. "Arrogant" when aimed at Obama.. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
13. Oh bullshit. It is commonly used before n* or b*. |
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Buenaventura (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
15. I don't understand how |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 06:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
46. It is important because the Repugs are becoming very sloppy |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:40 AM Original message |
When I refer to Rep. Westmoreland as a "dumb cracker" |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. Zing! |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
18. Defending the indefensible... by looking America in the eye and lying. |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. Suuure you haven't heard it used like that Westmoreland |
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BonnieJW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
21. Bullshit. |
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DinahMoeHum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
22. Lynn Westmoreland is a PIG, plain and simple. |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
23. FINALLY! |
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flakey_foont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
24. what? |
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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
25. I don't know what Georgia cave that guy has been in for the entire time he has |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
26. "Uppity" applied to African Americans during Jim Crow meant one thing. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
28. That peckerwood is lying |
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Stryguy (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
29. WAIT, So he's never heard the word used racially? - HELLO!? |
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needledriver (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
30. It's a good thing he didn't say "niggardly". |
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Stern21 (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
31. He was born & raised in 1950 Atlanta and never heard the word |
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done_left_austin (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
33. Yup. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
34. Sure she is |
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DrZeeLit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
35. Realllly? In GA? He NEVER heard that word used riiiiiight (raht?) before the N word? Huh? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
36. He also said, he didn't know that chicks don't like it when you call them broads. n/t |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
37. If that's the case, why have I NEVER heard a white person called "uppity"? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
38. Why, bless his pointy little head and matching hoodie: he certainly talks trashy |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
39. dupe |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. Just as Allen tried to defend "macaca.' |
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DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-05-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
42. Oh for shit's sake that doesn't even pass the laugh test |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
43. good--insert foot further in mouth. correct Obama response to any racist attacks: |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
44. Have you ever heard the term "Inbread White Trash Fucktard" used in a negative manner? |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
45. I never heard 'Uppity' used when it wasn't used in |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
48. I was born in 1958... |
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EndElectoral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
49. Colbert humiliated this guy. Colbert asked him what the 10 commandments were? He didn't know. |
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Greg K (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-07-08 01:00 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Actually, watching him on Colbert makes me want to give him benefit of the doubt on "uppity" |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-06-08 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
50. Liar liar pants on fire.... |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-07-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
51. oh please |
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