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Your explanation tells me uncle tom is a good thing but when I watched the movie it said its bad to call someone uncle Tom.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Basically means a black guy who doesn't have a grudge against white people.Sup wrote:
Can someone explain to me what "uncle Tom" means?
WRONG, Ill use your basically explanation.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Basically means a black guy who doesn't have a grudge against white people.Sup wrote:
Can someone explain to me what "uncle Tom" means?
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k i'll go into more detail (or you can just read the wikipedia article, i read part of uncle tom about a year ago so it's fuzzy in my memory):.Sup wrote:
Your explanation tells me uncle tom is a good thing but when I watched the movie it said its bad to call someone uncle Tom.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Basically means a black guy who doesn't have a grudge against white people.Sup wrote:
Can someone explain to me what "uncle Tom" means?
If I remember correctly, Uncle Tom was a slave in the story who, while knowing very well the cruelty of slavery, did not harbor hatred towards his masters.Uncle Tom is a pejorative for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although there is debate over whether the character himself is deserving of the pejorative attributed to him. Stowe never meant Uncle Tom to be a degrading character, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage
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lol....but i broke teh googleFlecco wrote:
Read the thread m8, it's already been extensively explained..Sup wrote:
Yes. You broke it.usmarine wrote:
is your google broken?
You think that one sentence on wikipedia means Ralph Nader didn't mean that Uncle Tom comment as a negative thing?Hurricane2k9 wrote:
k i'll go into more detail (or you can just read the wikipedia article, i read part of uncle tom about a year ago so it's fuzzy in my memory):.Sup wrote:
Your explanation tells me uncle tom is a good thing but when I watched the movie it said its bad to call someone uncle Tom.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
Basically means a black guy who doesn't have a grudge against white peopleIf I remember correctly, Uncle Tom was a slave in the story who, while knowing very well the cruelty of slavery, did not harbor hatred towards his masters.Uncle Tom is a pejorative for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although there is debate over whether the character himself is deserving of the pejorative attributed to him. Stowe never meant Uncle Tom to be a degrading character, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage
explain to me how one 'sucks up' to a white person please
Quite impressive actually. You should be proud.usmarine wrote:
lol....but i broke teh googleFlecco wrote:
Read the thread m8, it's already been extensively explained..Sup wrote:
Yes. You broke it.
You never post anywhere without having a smartass comment like that.usmarine wrote:
you know roc, you never post in this section unless it is about race as of late. i smell an agenda.
its not smartass, its an observation.Roc18 wrote:
You never post anywhere without having a smartass comment like that.usmarine wrote:
you know roc, you never post in this section unless it is about race as of late. i smell an agenda.
same, its just an observation.usmarine wrote:
its not smartass, its an observation.Roc18 wrote:
You never post anywhere without having a smartass comment like that.usmarine wrote:
you know roc, you never post in this section unless it is about race as of late. i smell an agenda.
gimme ur moneyzPoseidon wrote:
Quite impressive actually. You should be proud.usmarine wrote:
lol....but i broke teh googleFlecco wrote:
Read the thread m8, it's already been extensively explained.
i would but obama is going to take most of it..Sup wrote:
gimme ur moneyz
Sorry, I don't give my money to ignorant euros who hide not-so-subtle-anti-semetic-one-liners in their posts..Sup wrote:
gimme ur moneyzPoseidon wrote:
Quite impressive actually. You should be proud.usmarine wrote:
lol....but i broke teh google
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Why vote for him then? failusmarine wrote:
i would but obama is going to take most of it..Sup wrote:
gimme ur moneyz
/win
They made us read that in school.Mek-Stizzle wrote:
CameronPoe wrote:
What does the phrase 'Uncle Tom' actually mean and where does it originate?A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with "the white man" including betray his own people
Leroy is such an Uncle Tom; he told the boss I took a 2 hour lunch; I had to go see my baby mommahttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p … =uncle+tomTheatrical productions of Uncle Tom's Cabin played throughout the nadir (post Civil War and Reconstruction); but since the novel's indictment of slavery was no longer congenial to an increasingly white society, rewrites changed Uncle Tom from a martyr who gave his life to protect the people into a sentimental dope who was loyal to kindly masters. In the black community, Uncle Tom eventually came to mean an African American who sells out his people's interests and still does today. In my opinion the phrase "uncle tom" should not be used today by black people because it degrades the status of a man who wasn't in fact a sell out but a hero who's name should be used with reverence not disgrace.
Uncle tom, a martyr who should be admired til the end of time.
no. sup asked whether it was supposed to be a compliment or an insult, and i bolded that while it started off as simply an innocent title of a character, it got morphed into an insultRoc18 wrote:
You think that one sentence on wikipedia means Ralph Nader didn't mean that Uncle Tom comment as a negative thing?Hurricane2k9 wrote:
k i'll go into more detail (or you can just read the wikipedia article, i read part of uncle tom about a year ago so it's fuzzy in my memory):.Sup wrote:
Your explanation tells me uncle tom is a good thing but when I watched the movie it said its bad to call someone uncle Tom.If I remember correctly, Uncle Tom was a slave in the story who, while knowing very well the cruelty of slavery, did not harbor hatred towards his masters.Uncle Tom is a pejorative for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although there is debate over whether the character himself is deserving of the pejorative attributed to him. Stowe never meant Uncle Tom to be a degrading character, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage
explain to me how one 'sucks up' to a white person please
While I agree with the general gist of what you're saying, Nader really is acting like a douche now. It seems with each passing year that the man just goes further and further out there.oug wrote:
honestly these people piss me off so bad
all of a sudden the same fuckers calling him Osama "by mistake" now became sensitive to this?
and it's not like Nader actually called him anything. He said that if he plays the corporations' game he will become. Future tense. And he's right about that.
So what the fuck is all the fuss about?
And let's not forget that bitch at the end. " mieh mieh mieh his career is over mieh mieh"
News for you BITCH! Some people actually care about political agendas, not fucking facades and empty characterizations. So fuck off and die in a fire at your new station. Bitch. You too fuckface.
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