Is "Elitist" code for "Uppity Negro"? by Pearl Jr.
March 16, 2008
There was once a time when Black people were killed for knowing how to read and write because Blacks could never, under any circumstance, realize that White people were using, demeaning, and abusing them for the sole purpose of White upward mobility, i.e., the jig is up and Blacks would then aspire to want a lifestyle as good as Whites.
Yes, yes there has been progress, but has real change really occurred?
Pre 1960's, the term "Uppity Negroes" was widely used to describe "colored" people who had education, intelligence, status, influence, and material wealth; furthermore, had enough self-worth as a human being to attain the same standard of living as well-off White people. Well, today with all the racial overtones used in this presidential election of a Black versus a White to become the democratic nominee for 2008, the word "boy" has been uttered to describe an adult male African-American Harvard Law School Graduate, and phases like "rolling the dice" and "clean and articulate" are used to stir up stereotypical images, plus comparing accomplishments of Jesse Jackson's win in South Carolina with the professed imminent loss of Barack Obama's campaign has been a constant occurrence to remind Whites about Black inferiority.
On the contrary, with all the supposed discrimination against White women, I'm not seeing the same line of demeaning terms with describing Hillary's womanhood like broad or tootsie, not even the massive promotion of a music video featuring a muscular hunk praising his lust for the married Mrs. Hillary Clinton as with disrespecting Mrs. Michelle Obama and their children with "Obama Girl" sticking out her T&A all over the media while lip-syncing, "I got a crush (on the happily married) Obama".
Now, on every station all day (again) the airwaves have been bombarded with Obama's "bitter" statement in describing people who have unfairly fallen victim to today's economic failures as if he had been impeached or disbarred like another US President that Hillary is tightly attached to.
This latest psychological trick intends to remind Whites that Blacks are supposed to stay behind Whites, and Barack Obama is nothing more than an irritating Uppity Negro looking down on hardworking good White folks who have less than he has, which is most untrue. After all, Barack Obama's momma was a good hard-working white folk. Unlike, the $109 million dollar Clintons and Mrs. (Cindy) McCain's $100 million dollar inheritance, Barack and Michelle Obama earned a meager $900,000 in 2007--finally those student loans could be paid off. Now who's the real elitist? Using Bill Cosby's book title, "Come On, People"
Up until now, Blacks have been accused of being obsessed with talking about race, but apparently whenever an opposing race is perceived to be on the winning end, the other tends to bring up race most often. The irony is the dual meaning of the word "RACE"; hmmm, maybe not, COMPETITION could be its only definition.