From TPM Election Central

GOP House Candidate Calls Black Newscaster “Uppity”
By Eric Kleefeld – September 9, 2008, 10:26PM

It looks like more than one prominent Georgia Republican likes to use the word “uppity” in regards to prominent African-Americans — this time, it’s the GOP nominee in one of the few House seats that Dems could possibly lose this year.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Rick Goddard, a retired Air Force major general running against conservative Dem Congressman Jim Marshall, referred in a radio appearance to “a very uppity newscaster” who had a testy TV exchange with Newt Gingrich at the Republican Convention. This appeared to be a reference to MSNBC reporter Ron Allen, who is black.

The Goddard campaign didn’t deny that he was discussing Ron Allen, telling the Journal-Constitution that Goddard “simply evoked a word — that by definition — described the reporter’s demeanor as being superior, arrogant and presumptuous.”

This comes after Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) told The Hill that he believed both Barack and Michelle Obama were “uppity,” then denied that there was any racial connotation to the word.

Another Southern White Man claiming he doesn’t know what UPPITY means.

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