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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:11 PM Original message |
Salon: Obama is "uppity". |
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illinoisprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Salon is known to have a real problem with Obama. They have been |
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NobleCynic (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
69. If they've been running negative press on Obama |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. That's a cheap shot |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Not just Salon |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm just curious... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Aaahhh... I knew they couldn't be far away.... |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Just a sample from Google, search results for uppity, with black or white behind: |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. I can think of several uppity whites: Ch*ney, *, and R*ve, for starters |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. "Uppity N_gger" |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:48 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Well, actually, when I search I actually searched for that particular phrase... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Make it into "uppity negro". |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:57 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. I don't know where you searched, but I found 134,000 hits |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:02 AM Response to Reply #38 |
46. I used the one... |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:24 AM Response to Reply #46 |
53. Saddening and maddening, but not surprising, |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:07 AM Response to Reply #30 |
47. I am looking at the top right hand corner where it says |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:17 AM Response to Reply #47 |
50. If you put quotation marks around a search term in Google... |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:30 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Yes, I know |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Back in the day it meant 'acting confident around white folks.' That used to justify a beating or |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Everybody knows that. The reason for such questions... |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. You're right, and I'm white too. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. How else would I know? (grin) |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Ohhhh. Sorry. It's a way to remind people on the QT "Obama's black, I mean really really |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. I have never seen it used except to mean "outside of your station." |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Yes. I almost chose a different "uppity" name |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:11 AM Response to Reply #34 |
68. I have seen bumper stickers that say |
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Kixel (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
39. It was used in a LTTE to describe a friend of mine |
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badgerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
41. Term gets applied to women too... |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
61. Who ya gettin your TALKIN' Points from, Willis? |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. Maybe a collective foot should go "uppity" Salon's ass! |
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qanda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. LOL |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I'm just so sick of this racist bullshit, you know, people don't have to be... |
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qanda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. That is so true. |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 06:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
74. And its these types of people I worry about in a general |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Or go medieval on they hiney |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Well, it looks like someone's at least gone a little Jim Crow... |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. Did somebody photoshop him a blond natural? |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. No, they DIDN'T! Holy sheet! How does that get by editors! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Self-answering question. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
19. Is Joe Biden writing headlines for Salon these days? |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:36 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yeah, because that word "uppity" used to be followed by the n-word in the South... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Used to? |
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spacelady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:01 AM Response to Reply #19 |
62. Hey, at least he is not "niggardly", Barf to Salon & their |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
21. Subtle racism at it's best |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
36. Nope. Not subtle at all. |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
22. Salon is a has-been news source |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. They. Did. Not. Say. That. |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. Freudian Slip, heh? |
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ariesgem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. Submit a letter to the editor here..... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:51 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Thank you! |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
32. The article was written by Edward McClelland... |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-11-07 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
35. Good Lord. |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
40. They changed |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:02 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Yup - That's what my "Then they changed the subtitle..." referred to. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
44. uppity...but clean....AND articulate... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
45. Them's fightin' words to me |
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Katherine Brengle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
48. Ew. |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
49. Infighting is a nasty habit among progressives. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:19 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. This goes beyond mere divisions, this is racist. |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #51 |
57. I understand the REACTION. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:56 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. which is why it still happens. Fucking "good whites". |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:03 AM Response to Reply #60 |
64. I Replied further up the thread. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:01 AM Response to Reply #49 |
63. That has exactly nothing to do with a racist remark in a header. |
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Clinton_Co_Regulator (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
52. Why the hell isn't this on the home page yet? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:31 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. (shrug) annanicolesmith is more important? |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
56. Wow |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:55 AM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Nobody does. |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
59. O really? Last I heard they were accusing him |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:07 AM Original message |
Salon changed it... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
66. Yup. |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
65. Salon is fishing for publicity again |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
67. So, how long until they'll start calling him "boy", I wonder? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
70. Where he was born & grew up, the word uppity isn't even in the vocabulary |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
71. I have a special place in my heart for Salon (not;) |
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Doondoo (843 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
72. bump |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
73. Just didn't know his place, I guess... |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
75. "Uppity"?? Yeah, ever since the war of |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 06:39 AM Response to Original message |
76. Bah! |
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Clinton_Co_Regulator (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-12-07 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
77. K + R Bossman |
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