The Uppity Negro

I am not an Obama apologist.  I have not been drinking the Kool-Aid.  Still, I cannot but feel a little annoyed by the HRC's subtly racist campaign.  I know, no one could dare accuse anyone in the Democrat Party of race-baiting, but Hillary's latest line with respect to Obama's "bitter America" speech seems a little familiar.  I lived in the South for some time as a kid.  I remember the way that people there talked about coloreds (black, brown, yellow, etc.), which was never out-right KKK style racist.  It was more subtle, more poisonous.  They painted them with old stereo-types.  If the black guy tried to sound smart, he was called "arrogant" or, as Hilary is doing now, "elitist." 

Imagine, a black man who thinks he's better than you!   Why, that uppity negro needs to be put in his place.  And, in the way only a woman of the South could get away with, it's a woman who points this out.  Hilary seems to be trying to play the Grande Dame of white America, suggesting something that would draw the ire of all men of good will and noble up-bringing:  "He's saying he's better than us, he's elitist!  That negro is insulting us and one of you should do something about it, or you're no real man, you must stand up and defend us!"  It's this kind of suggestion that gave us the unrecognizable body of 14 year-old Emmit Till.  Today, Hillary's trying to use it to give herself the delegates of Pennsylvania.

Disgusting.  I'm not a huge fan of Obama but, God please, anyone but Hillary.

Comments

[plez...]

i don't quite make the Southern lady connection, but i agree with your assertion that they are using the "Uppity Negro" attack to quash Obama. i have a similar post over at my blog.

i am a Black man (born in the North, currently live in the South) and hate it when white folks want to denigrate or minimize my intelligence because of their insecurities about strong, motivated, and upstanding Black men! this latest ploy by the Clintonistas has me fuming because this "elitism" *ish* is just code word for "uppity Negro"!

[Franklin Jennings]

I don't get it either, since she is from Illinois, and not even Little Egypt.