There is a long history of the term “uppity negro” going back to slave days.
Up here in the north, there were two words you learned not to use” Uppity, and belligerent. Both of them would get you bitch-slapped on the bus.
There is a long history of the term “uppity negro” going back to slave days.
But I have seen my children acting “uppity”. Do you want to keep playing liberal’s language rules? You will always lose.
“There is a long history of the term “uppity negro” going back to slave days.”
That’s true, but only someone with a niggardly vocabulary would bitterly cling to one single understanding of the word ‘uppity’; it’s a word with several applications, depending on context. You just choose to be obtuse - do you vote Democrat or Independent?.