"Uppity"

Following up on a previous post, there was a good explanation of the racial connotations of "uppity" in the Times yesterday:

The term “uppity” was applied to affluent black people, who sometimes paid a horrific price for owning nicer homes, cars or more successful businesses than whites. Race-based wealth envy was a common trigger for burnings, lynchings and cataclysmic episodes of violence like the Tulsa race riot of 1921, in which a white mob nearly eradicated the prosperous black community of Greenwood.

Thanks, Marian, for pointing this out to me.