I wouldn't call the elitist charge racist. Certainly it's been used against non-black politicians, and no party has a monopoly on populism. But still: "Just from what little I've seen of her and Mr.

It’s not unusual for criticism and scrutiny to intensify about a political candidate after the launching of a campaign. But the tone and attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party Republican from Texas who ...

Conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh has made a career of race-baiting, so his use of the word “uppity” to describe First Lady Michelle Obama (on the occasion of her booing by some NASCAR fans) was ...

I don’t know whose idea it was to send first lady Michelle Obama to a NASCAR race. But the reaction offers a timely lesson in political correctness, a regime that used to be known simply as good ...

Democrats are calling on a Republican congressman from Georgia to apologize for referring to Barack and Michelle Obama as “uppity,” but the lawmaker stood by his comments and said he meant no offense.

On the heels of an escalating divide between several NFL members and President Trump, an essay published in the New Yorker, titled, “From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity,” ...

Justin Jones, one of the Black Tennessee state lawmakers who was expelled from his House seat Thursday, said racism played a part in his expulsion. “I basically had a member call me an uppity Negro,” ...

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