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Typically "uppity" was intended to denote a person of color who did not know his place, meaning the supposed natural order in which black people were always subservient to or less than white people. But I've heard a black person call another black person "uppity" when it seemed to have something to do with class, assimilation, and "acting white." But I think that might have been due to the old age of the person using the term "uppity." I think that "bougie" gets used more often now in that regard.
No, seriously, it was a term that used to be used for black people who "didn't know their station in life." Often it was used about educated/ intelligent blacks who spoke well, who carried themselves with dignity, who expected to be treated with respect by bigots, many of whom were not anywhere the same caliber of person.
who are they? and why do people call certain black people that??
Damned if I know. You'll have to ask the Democrats who started and ran the Ku Klux Klan, and who fought so hard against protecting black people's right to vote, and who kept enacting Jim Crow laws after the Civil War, if you really want to find out.
Maybe those Democrats will tell you something like, an "uppity black" is one who objects to Democrats' present-day characterization of black people as being inferior, not being able to make it in life without the assistance of government, while white people get no such allowances.
I don't know. Ask a Democrat.
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