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Uppity? (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2021
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LetMyPeopleVote
(144,919 posts)1. Great cartoon
MyOwnPeace
(16,917 posts)2. Love the
NAMES and QUOTES included - and yet they continue to 'do their thing.'
Truly, no shame......
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Rudy's fart
I'd forgotten about that.
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)4. The "coup coup ka-choo" sign is a nice touch.
patphil
(6,150 posts)5. I am the eggplant, I am the walnut. Goo goo ga choo.
With apologies to the Beatles.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,559 posts)6. "Uppity" makes me cringe.
It is, in some ways, more damaging than the slur that can never be said. It is minimizing, and trivializing AAs who "dare" to take some equality and dignity for themselves. How dare they?
"They bein' UPPITY!"
I'm reasonably sure I must have heard it used in other contexts, but I can't remember one.