Georgia Rep Calls Obamas 'Uppity' Elitists
Posted Sep 5, 08 11:10 AM CDT in
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An Atlanta-area Congressman described Barack and Michelle Obama as belonging to "an elitist class ... that thinks that they’re uppity,” CQPolitics reports. Lynn Westmoreland's comments, inspired by questions about recent speeches by Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama, touched off a linguistic battle over the word's racial implications. "I’ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense," Westmoreland, who is white, said in a statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“This was an adjective for elitism, not a code word,” said Westmoreland's press secretary. But "everybody gets that who is from a Southern background," according to veteran consultant David Gergen, notes the Hill, which broke the story. And a professor of political rhetoric tells CQPolitics.com: “The racial politics that it reanimates are very worrisome.”
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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