Whenever we are clearly making progress on social dynamics such as racism, we can always expect to get some ugly behavior popping up. When Georgia Republican Lynn Westmoreland called the Obamas "uppidy" he was using the good ol' south racist meaning of the word, applied to Blacks who have the odacity to do well for themselves, in this case have Harvard degrees, get elected to the Senate, have lovely family values. Being uppidy used to be cause for getting killed, lynched, or at least severely beaten up.
Republicans aren't the only ones nervous about a "Black" who could become our President. Demos can be just as racist...but my heart goes out to Obama who has to walk a fine line between being articulate and wise, and being "too" articulate and wise. Kinda like Margaret Fuller, one of our UU Transcendentalists in the 1800's who felt the cultural pressure to dumb down her intelligence if she wanted to get a man in her life. She didn't dumb down, and ended up being one of our nation's first women foreign correspondents, and falling in love with an Italian revolutionary. Good for her.
And thank you Senator Obama for being such a wonderful role model for all children, white and black...yellow....brown...and mixed, as you are.
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