even when you spell it out for people blatantly, they wanna argue that it isn't that.
and I usually hear "uppity negro." in fact, a black woman came to my college trying to convince the black students that particular term was a compliment. ha. she felt the backlash, I'm sure.
"Redneck" and "cracker" are indeed racial slurs. And just as you'll almost never hear a black person called either of those, you'll also essentially never hear a white person--even a redneck, even a cracker--called "uppity." It's a heavily loaded, barely coded way of saying that a black person is inappropriately rising above his or her station (said station implied to be somewhere below white people--even the crackers and rednecks).
No problem. Walk into a room of black business people, call them uppity, and then explain you really meant it in the way that can also apply to white trash (a term which is, by the way, itself an implied slur against blacks).
If you don't mind my asking, now that I think of it, how are a man who went to Harvard and a woman who went to Princeton and Harvard acting uppity? They went into community organizing. If anything, they're acting low-ity.
I'll answer by asking a question: Why aren't they just called "trash"?
