{"id":4768,"date":"2008-09-04T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/04\/you-knew-they-couldnt-keep-the-racism-covert\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:05:27","slug":"you-knew-they-couldnt-keep-the-racism-covert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"You Knew They Couldn&#039;t Keep the Racism Covert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term &#8220;uppity&#8221; to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just from what little I\u2019ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they&#8217;re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they&#8217;re uppity,&#8221; Westmoreland said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to clarify that he used the word \u201cuppity,\u201d Westmoreland said, \u201cUppity, yeah.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve been saying for weeks &#8212; although they&#8217;ve been using words like &#8220;elitist&#8221;\u00a0 and &#8220;cosmopolitan&#8221; because &#8220;uppity&#8221; is, well, racist. The rest of the GOP campaign is too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to get ugly, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.: Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term &#8220;uppity&#8221; to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin&#8217;s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}