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UPPITY NEGRO™
Not a joke. Not to be associated with the stereotypical “FOR SALE” Uppity Negro a.k.a. “bourgeois” or the punk*** social brokers a.k.a. “political pimps”
GENERATION NEXT VERSION(syn. MAVERICK) 1. A FEARLESS black person who by social definition is “not in their place”.
UNAPOLOGETIC. VAINGLORIOUS. MULTIFARIOUS. JUST. AUDACIOUS.
2. A black person who knows his or her American legacy, his or her actualized social status, and his or her social and emotional plights with still the identical high regard to self as an equally entitled American due the same privileges, attitudes, concessions, and respectability of THE ENTITLED.
3. Conscious of his or her impressive yet awkward esteemed existence throughout the evolution of America’s prescription to annihilate, denigrate, ignore, placate, satirize, extort, ostracize, and water-down the institution of the Uppity Negro; immune to The Entitled’s reverse psychological guilt of the legacy.
SURVIVOR.
4. Conscious of the debt owed by the country to the legacy.
5. Equally conscious of the debt owed by blacks to blacks.
6. APPRECIATIVE of the expensive price paid by ancestral Uppity Negroes for the presumed entitlement claimed.
ADAMANT. Never whining, never begging. DEMANDING. NEVER ASHAMED. COCKY (rightfully).
7. COMMITTED with imperial passion to define “their place” as equal (if not BETTER.)
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Fact: We have been lied to and bamboozled by our own people because of fear and shame.
Association of Black Psychologists
Ironic: People admit and defend a meaning that was created to destabilize them for nearly 600 years (ago) and counting rather that destabilize the perpetuated meaning. It didn’t mean a bourgeois slave in 1442/1443. It meant a resister to the system in 1442/1443 when the first slaves were taken to Portugal and fought to get back home. It always meant the adage, “You think you are too good”. During slavery it meant the question in intimidation, (Oh, you think) "You’re too good to pick that cotton?"
During Reconstruction it meant, “Oh, you’re too good to buy from me or work for me?” So they, racist, jealous Whites burned our businesses, burned our communities, hung our men, and we defeated and scared again by this new thing, Jim Crow, went to work for them again. We started to buy from them only and teach each other we were worthless and needed them to survive. For decades during Jim Crow it meant, “Oh, you’re too good to walk through the back door” or “You’re too good to give me your land?” Then we found our fathers or grandfathers hanging from a tree. Our people with dignity were called UPPITY.
Then one time, they taunted and terrorized with words, “you’re too good to sit in the back of the bus?” to a nice little fed-up lady. She in turn got UPPITY, talked back, and remained seated.
Rosa Parks wasn’t bourgeois. The lady caught the bus. She didn’t have a driver. She wasn’t rich. She had to go to work like most brothers and sisters did. She was an activist. She wasn’t paid a lot. She was UPPITY though. So were her husband and her mother. I thank her for being an Uppity Negro. She had the choices to not be. She could have just tried to not stand out and she could have taught her family to try their hardest to stay in their place. But it was her husband and mother that all decided together to work as a team to fight.
Martin Luther King wasn’t bourgeois. He was educated though. Education still however didn’t delineate bourgeois identity. Black people playa-hating (i.e. SLAVE MENTALITY) label people and do not realize how criminal they are judging and dividing us. How is it that White people who are educated aren’t coined bourgeois? Are Black people not supposed to defend their manhood and humanity? That gets you coined.
King wasn’t rich. He was poor. He just looked rich because he had dignity in how he walked like a man. He didn’t walk broken. The same was with Malcolm. The same was with Ali. He said the things he said when he was poor. Both men. Ali’s wealth didn’t all of a sudden open his mouth. His celebrity exposed his thoughts to the world because finally he had a microphone putting him on blast. Harry Belafonte wasn’t rich being an activist. He was actor paid only a portion of what his White counterparts made. Yet he gave his money unselfishly and time to the causes activists led in any way he could support and still leave him time for his craft. He was an Uppity Negro that risked the comforts of his growing career to fight injustices for other people.
So did Lena Horne, Bill Russell, Esther Rolle, and Arthur Ashe. These people were not ashamed of their indictments of being coined Uppity Negroes. It was insulting but it was also clarification that they were doing the right thing. Once you’re coined, you are notified of your ironic positive contribution to the entire American community and not just the Black community.
These people made White people better people. If Uppity Negroes didn’t exist, do you really think White people would be this tolerable as they are now? We would still be picking cotton. Maybe not literally but then maybe we just all would be cramped into sweatshops and China would be buying from White American factories still. Reality would have been altered just as reality should have been altered by more progressive moves than has already occurred. We’d still be in tenement buildings while there would be more Robber-Barons. We’d still be walking with our heads lowered in subservience. Hence since the Civil Rights initiatives of the 60’s, public interest groups in the U.S. followed with social movements they dedicate their foray to Uppity Negroes. Other countries as well followed Uppity Negroes lead. Honestly without Uppity Negroes, world history would be different. Uppity Negroes have affected cultural changes worldwide by exposing America and international colonialism. White people would not be as liberal about themselves if not for UPPITIES.
The problem Black people in America faced is the intimidation tactics and fear that made them not to ever want to be considered “too good” and out of their place.
Blacks from the Caribbean were not colonized to the degree that we, Blacks, in America were. We were broken and refused to fix ourselves. We knew fixing ourselves meant sacrifice and we didn’t love ourselves enough to sacrifice ourselves for being the target of retribution that could lead to death. So we got into our place and forever self-monitored our place for the systems.
Black people procreated and taught their offspring to “go along to get along” and to stay in their place. Families for generations grew up stuck in subservience and promoted it to the offspring and threatened them psychologically in holding up allegiance to the subservient mindsets. For some it was survival tactics. And for other families it was their agreement in keeping up with the status quo. Communities were built on it and today we have a dying culture credited to subservience of wanting to fit in, going along to get along, staying in our place, and not wanting to ever be perceived as being too good. Black churches supported and still support the subservience. The American Way for Black people has been the instruction to fit in and not be. It has been the codependent enabler to our speedy, increasing cultural demise.
What Black people hold onto are the same subversion, subterfuge, and distraction the slaves fell for. It is a petty stereotype based on inaccuracy and ignorance that most Black people hold onto that keeps us divided because of jealousy and cowardice to exercise leadership and cohesiveness. It is shameful and unfair. It is unfair to push shame in intimidation onto others that are proud. It is what made slavery work.
It’s deep and psychological. Most people don’t want to admit they too have been affected by the wrong usage of it themselves against other Black people. Most people don’t want to admit the mental and emotional scars slavery left us in legacy. Fear haunts, tortures, and bullies us. Shame owns our future.
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Fact: It does not mean bourgeois.
Fact: It does not mean a person who has left the community behind or has forgotten where they came from.
Fact: It has never meant that.
Black people picked up those ideas in slavery because they were actually jealous of the UPPITY NEGRO slave/captive that had the courage to fight back or run away. Courage was a characteristic to covet and at the same time be afraid of because it was treason to bestow it on the plantation. Courage is still a very dangerous characteristic to bestow in seeking liberation on our modern day plantations (our communities, our churches, our jobs, our families). That is why we “whisper” about injustice instead of speak out. Uppity Negroes didn’t whisper on the plantation. They walked tall.
Slaves that ran away through organized help were envied. They took the risk and were living a freer life while the scared slaves stayed and had to find to ways mentally to not support and downgrade liberation. It was because of their cowardice. It is named SLAVE MENTALITY.
Association of Black Psychologists
Once an UPPITY NEGRO found freedom in Northern States, they assumed lifestyles of free men. They adapted to civilized society which was more than the shamed life living as a slave. They acquired homes and land. It as a result fostered more jealousy with those who had not the courage to seek the same liberation in fleeing. Free men risked their lives for liberation to only have to face the jealous onslaughts of broken coward brothren that intimidated them right along with the racist Whites. It still happens today with the self-righteous attitudes of moral and social justification (i.e. SLAVE MENTALITY).
The term, UPPITY NEGRO, was coined of any slave demanding respect.
*Any slave that refused to be subservient and cooperate was called UPPITY.
*Any slave that was too smart was called UPPITY.
*Any slaves that thought were called UPPITY.
*Any slave that learned or attempted to read was called UPPITY.
*Any slave that rebelled or revolted was called UPPITY.
So when a slave refused to bow down and pick the cotton or kiss ass, he or she was called UPPITY.
Slaves that worked in the field called slaves that worked in the House, UPPITY NEGROES. It was all divisive and circumstantial because of jealousy or rightful annoyances orchestrated for use against us to pit us against one another. Because of the Masters taunt in intimidation that most UPPITY NEGROES (Joseph Cinques, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman) thought they were too good, it has been the reigning marker Blacks used to harass other Blacks of the same harassment.
People still try to justify with SLAVE MENTALITY why it is their right to call another Black person out on this in a policing way when they don’t realized the parameters of their measure is ancient, terrorizing, and subversive. It is futile, judgmental, and divisive behavior.
Even when people justify that “this concepts meaning” is different from what it means in the community, they fail to acknowledge that it should not mean what it means in the community at all. The original meaning should take precedence.
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