The South shall rise again, as two southern congressmen evoked the mantra of the old Confederacy and the American Apartheid Era or Jim Crow, when Rep. Westmoreland called Mr. Obama "uppity," while Rep. Geoff Davis called Mr. Obama a "boy." According to Crooks and Liars, "Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term "uppity" to describe Obama."Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.
"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”
Steven Colbert's interview with Rep. Lynn Westmoreland:
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