There is a long history of the term “uppity negro” going back to slave days.
“Since when is the word “uppity” racist? That is just dumb, frankly.”
It has a long history in the South—”uppity n****r”. It was an unfortunate choice of words by Limbaugh.
Didn’t you get the memo? It has been decided that a lot of words and phrases are now racist, e.g., niggardly, tar baby, tar pit, uppity, tar and feather, niggardly, Little Black Sambo (who was from India and wasn’t even black, LOL) call a spade a spade, lynching, lynch mob, picnic, on and on.