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(Yahoo)   Cynthia McKinney admits that some people in her home state were embarrassed by her actions, but points out that they were all "whites and uppity blacks." Glad she cleared that up   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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2006-12-19 6:33:08 PM  
So what does that mean exactly? Is she admitting to being ghetto or is she saying there is something wrong with "whites and uppity blacks"?
 
2006-12-19 6:34:48 PM  
Do people this stupid really exist?
 
2006-12-19 6:38:30 PM  
Manfred Richthofen: Do people this stupid really exist?

Not only that but they serve in Congress!
 
2006-12-19 6:38:43 PM  
They not only exist, but they get ELECTED.
 
2006-12-19 6:42:05 PM  
elchip: The American public
 
2006-12-19 6:42:33 PM  
elchip
Michael Jackson, for simply existing. Even though he wasn't competing.
 
2006-12-19 6:43:03 PM  
elchip: If Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Chuck Rangel, Ray Nagin, and William Jefferson got in a crazy-fight, who would win?

The rest of us?

/ i don't actually think that, but i couldn't resist
 
2006-12-19 6:43:42 PM  
elchip: The Turrists.
 
2006-12-19 6:44:04 PM  
Those grapes are tasting mighty sour. Time to move on to the next career as an extreme boxer or a tenured crank at a private school
 
2006-12-19 6:44:07 PM  
Technically, her spokesperson/ex-campaign manager said this, from tfa:

And as for Walker's claim that McKinney has caused embarrassment to Georgia, [John] Evans said: "He must be talking about white folks or uppity black folks."[emphasis added]

but I believe she also truly thinks this way. I wish they'd kept her elected. She's hot death for Democrats and she's a hoot every time she opens her mouth.
 
2006-12-19 6:44:09 PM  
How come this nutcase doesn't have to meet with the self-designated Leader of All White People to apologize?

Oh, I forgot. She isn't being a racist.
 
2006-12-19 6:45:25 PM  
Them black senators is getting uppity again
 
SSP
2006-12-19 6:52:16 PM  
First off, Subby needs to RTFA. It was John Evans, McKinney's former campaign manager that made the remarks, not Mckinney. Second off, uppity blacks probably refers to black Republicans who opposed her anyway. Case closed.
 
2006-12-19 6:54:27 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: Not only that but they serve in Congress!

Thankfully, between her and katherine harris losing, two less now serve.
 
2006-12-19 6:55:32 PM  
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2006-12-19 6:56:18 PM  
SSP: uppity blacks probably refers to black Republicans

Maybe that point could have been clarified a wee bit better?
 
2006-12-19 6:57:54 PM  
 
2006-12-19 6:59:35 PM  
I also find the remark aimed at "whites" to be offensive. Nice job thinking in racial lines, when she's supposed to be serving her constituents equally.

Actually, it's kind of frightening to see that a person's word can be so divided into the racial lines and that this person served as a U.S. Representative.

Someone come up with a white guy's "that's racist" gif . . .
 
2006-12-19 7:00:48 PM  
World. Person's world. Not word. Oops.
 
2006-12-19 7:00:53 PM  
SSP: Second off, uppity blacks probably refers to black Republicans who opposed her anyway.

So it's ok to call blacks that don't agree with you "uppity"?

Cool!
 
2006-12-19 7:01:03 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson


Manfred Richthofen: Do people this stupid really exist?

Not only that but they serve in Congress!


and post on Fark! ;-)
 
2006-12-19 7:02:15 PM  
SmashLimousines: SSP: uppity blacks probably refers to black Republicans

Maybe that point could have been clarified a wee bit better?


Yeah, he can't possibly have meant that seriously. I laughed when I read that "excuse".
 
2006-12-19 7:15:53 PM  
Is this the new PC term for smart people? Whites and Uppity Blacks?
 
2006-12-19 7:22:21 PM  
if you're popular it doesn't matter how stupid you are, you just might receive enough votes to win.
 
2006-12-19 7:22:36 PM  
I interpreted "uppity" to mean "educated" or "paying attention"
 
2006-12-19 7:23:36 PM  
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2006-12-19 7:23:42 PM  
Tom Bevan stole my grammars.
 
2006-12-19 7:23:57 PM  
She's an embarassment to humanity.
 
2006-12-19 7:24:15 PM  
There are also efforts under way to rename the Cynthia McKinney Parkway in Atlanta. Georgians want no trace of this woman hanging around.
 
2006-12-19 7:26:24 PM  
GuyCaballero how did you read my mind? no, seriously i was going to search for that exact scene, but with the line:
"sherriff's coming! and he's a attractive and successful African-American!"

seriously though, how did you do it?
 
2006-12-19 7:26:26 PM  
Manfred Richthofen: Nice job thinking in racial lines, when she's supposed to be serving her constituents equally.

To be fair, the vast majority of her district is black. Heck, the vast majority of her district is black and poor. She played the "victim" card and the voters identified with her.

Just remember, the last time she was voted out, it was because of "those J-E-W-S". Nothing ever seems to be this woman's fault.
 
2006-12-19 7:27:43 PM  
up·pi·ty /ˈʌpɪti/
-adjective Informal.
1.affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
2.rebelliously self-assertive; not inclined to be tractable or deferential.
 
2006-12-19 7:27:44 PM  
Outshined-

I think as long as the Dekalb County Jail is on the road, it should remain the Cynthia McKinney Parkway....Truly, that run-down, crime-ridden stretch of road stands for her successes better than any other...
 
2006-12-19 7:28:21 PM  
The color of her skin is irrelevant. She's an idiot. If she was white she would be a white idiot. Stupidity knows no color.
 
2006-12-19 7:28:53 PM  
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2006-12-19 7:29:01 PM  
ELEANOR: You know what's really uppity? Mt St. Helen
 
2006-12-19 7:29:27 PM  
Who? Oh, someone I have never heard of before now. That is because I am an uppity Asian/Inuit. Would this be in the news if it involved a black minor celebrity poking at whites? I think not. Nancy up jerks.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:20 PM  
ELEANOR: Do you know what else was white and then uppity black? The top of Mt. St. Helens.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:23 PM  
If someone who was white said something similar, they would be crucified.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:41 PM  
To be fair, the article quotes McKinney's former campaign manager John Evans as having said that.

imo, McKinney is clearly a bigot.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:51 PM  
elchip
If Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Chuck Rangel, Ray Nagin, and William Jefferson got in a crazy-fight, who would win?

Charlie Rangel and William Jefferson do not belong on your list; the others are crazy. Rangel is a substantial person. Jefferson is a number of things- calculating, shrewd, corrupt, deceiving- but he damn sure isn't crazy. A lot of people thought they could handle Jefferson and woke up wondering what fell on them.

If you put all of the above in a knife-fight my money would be on Jefferson- he would fight as dirty as it took to won. Or maybe Rangel- that guy has balls.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:54 PM  
Dancin_In_Anson: So it's ok to call blacks that don't agree with you "uppity"?

well...it IS better than the alternative.
 
2006-12-19 7:30:54 PM  
FTA That's the sort of vicious slander some blacks use against members of their own community to keep them in line,

It is? I highly doubt black people are super super sensative to any stupid thing some dumbass says.
 
2006-12-19 7:31:08 PM  
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2006-12-19 7:31:12 PM  
If she was white she would be a white idiot

No, if she was white and made the same comments, she'd be a racist white idiot.
 
2006-12-19 7:31:16 PM  
Damn you, Hactar42.
 
2006-12-19 7:31:19 PM  
So what did she actually do the first time? I have no idea who she is.
 
2006-12-19 7:31:33 PM  
In a January 2004 issue of Jet magazine, McKinney said that the "white, rich Democratic boys club wanted her to stay in the back of the bus."

She is comedy gold.
 
2006-12-19 7:31:48 PM  
Don't like no uppity blacks either.
Give me some shuckin' and jivin'.

Come to think of it, don't like uppity whites, either.
 
2006-12-19 7:32:32 PM  
Flip the statements around,can you imagine a politician saying something along the lines of: "the only people who support this are blacks and white trash." There would be a howl raised immediately about it.

Hate racist, racism and bigotry. I'm from a mixed race family (sister has adopted black son, now a young adult). Hate douchebags like McKinney (and her minions) because they are racists in the same vein as David Duke. (Same coin, different side.)

Secondly, as to one of the comments above, if I were to participate in the pick who can out-crazy the other one contest above, I would have to remove Rangle from the list. He is not deserving of being classed with the others. I know he proposed the draft, but if you look past the surface and understand the reasoning why he did so, it actually makes a lot of sense. (If the rich and powerful had to serve, it may make the powers that be less likely to engage in some half-assed war somewhere for questionable reasons and based on half-assed policies.)
 
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