Just in case you missed it on the Facebook News Feed (or we're not Facebook friends lol)... A friend of mine posted a note about how slick the Republicans think they are:
Uppity. An effective connotation to put an educated black man (and his wife in place). This insult was hurled at Barack and Michelle Obama by Georgia Congressman Westmoreland. And this wasn’t a slip of the tongue, he later defended this statement. Clearly this statement was interjected to remind Georgian voters (where the traditional republican stronghold is extremely close 44 percent to 48 percent) that Obama is just a ‘uppity’ black man.
These insult was popular during slavery as slaves who worked in the field called ‘house-negroes’ this term- uppity. This correlation is strong as it feeds into the false theme that Obama is an elitist. But what’s funny is how the tables have turned and why the congressman is putting himself in the shoes of a field-working slave in order to disparage the Obamas. Clearly the republicans are attempting to build a majority of ‘working people’ who abstain from uppity negroes This reeks of the Willie Lynch papers, but inviting the ‘workers’ into this discussion. But instead of dividing people by shades of black, the new tactic is to divide by class.
- EJ Alford
And here's what I had to say:
This shit happens all the time, when the GOP, or any conservative group fears a loss of power/stronghold. The mudslinging tactics, the deliberate mislabeling and conjuring of images of Obama as everything from a terrorist to uppity negro, and even the recent media circus around his "lipstick on a pig" comment are old, tired, and trifilin'. I'm surprised there aren't photoshopped pictures of him snorting lines of coke with Lil Wayne circulating around on the internet, for that matter. These folks will stop at nothing to undermine and undercut the legitimacy of worthy competition.
The bottom line is, this is NOTHING new. If we go ALLLLL the way back to the founding documents of this country, the conservative framework from the outset has been based upon the premise that the American public is a bunch of blundering fools, and cannot be trusted to make critical decisions about legislation and who should run the country. Why do you think we have an electoral college? The entire point is that the GOP has always treated the American public like we are damned idiots unfit to make a decision. This election REEKS of that belief...cough, cough, Sarah Palin. As a matter of fact, the entire Elephant circus at this point relies not on developing a framework to address critical issues of this country (the economy, the war, the fact that gas will cost me my firstborn child, etc.), but rather banks on the fact that we have the mental capacity of a goldfish. That's exactly why stupid shit like "uppity" and "Obama/Osama" and every other image will continue to surface until he is elected in November, well honestly, it will continue after that.
My next prediction: they (meaning conservatives/republicans/right-wing media) will try to draw some parallel between Obama verbally attacking Palin and licentious Black men that prey on "pure" white women. Mark my words.
And they will continue to do it, because they think we're that damn dumb, and as racist and sexist as they are.
-- Crown Royal On Ice --
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