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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
-Lillian Hellman
The word "Uncle Tom"is a political and psychological tool which seeks to exert in-group pressures on the black community!
The Democratic party which is dominated by white leftist, will on occasions
give a wink, and a go a head to black demcratic elite to use this term.
It is used primarly against Republican blacks, who are "deemed" a threat to
the Democrat's black voting base!
Like a cult who uses terms like "apostate", or heretic,
such terms are used as means to alert the "group" to ignore
such new ideas which could threaten the conformity of its members!
The term is used as means to direct attection from the issues of debate!
By playing on cultural sensitivities, and the complex history of race in America,
the left uses such name's as political warfare!
Just a few names who have been crowned with this cowardly term!
Reverend Martin Luther King
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Thomas Sowell
Bayard Rustin
Roy Wilkens
Louis Armstong
Jackie Robinson
W.E.B. DuBois
Cornell West
Christopher Darden
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer;
Karl Malone ..Utah Jazz basketball player
Colin Powell
and the list goes on!
Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by other blacks to be servile to white authority.
An Uncle Tom is eager to win the approval of white people, or who rubber stamps white supremacist notions about the inherent superority of whites and its corollary, the inherent inferiority of blacks.
"Uncle Toms" are perceived to take the side of whites when there is an injustice against blacks. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of white author Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Black public figures who oppose affirmative action or busing are often accused of pleasing Whites only to elevate themselves -- socially, politically, and economically.
Civil rights leaders of the 1960s were called Uncle Toms by more militant Blacks.
Whitney Young, Executive Director of the Urban League from 1961 to 1971, was a "radical integrationist."
His willingness to work with Whites led to charges that he was an "Uncle Tom."
Reverend Martin Luther King's unwillingness to advocate retaliatory violence led Stokely Carmichael to accuse him of "Uncle Tomism." Bayard Rustin, one of the chief tacticians of the Civil Rights Movement, was also called an "Uncle Tom" by Black militants.
Roy Wilkens was called an "Uncle Tom" because he publicly stated that Blacks could achieve political power "in the system." Civil rights leaders were judged to be too passive, too religious, too eager to integrate -- too much like the stereotypical Version A "Uncle Tom.
" Older, more established Blacks have often been accused of being too conservative, too passive, and too desirous of White approval. In the 1950s Louis Armstong was called an "Uncle Tom" by young bebop musicians.
Sports champions, especially those who publicly express conservative political views, run the risk of being labeled "Uncle Toms." After retiring from baseball, Jackie Robinson wrote a newspaper column about civil rights issues. He was vilified in the Black community when he announced that he was a "Rockefeller Republican.
" Arthur Ashe, the tennis champion and human rights activist, was called an "Uncle Tom" for playing in the South African Open tennis tournament in 1973. His participation was seen as supporting apartheid. Muhammad Ali routinely berated his Black opponents as "Uncle Toms."
In 1965 Ali fought Floyd Patterson, a devout Christian and staunch integrationist.
Ali not only called Patterson an "Uncle Tom" and "the technicolor white hope," but he predicted: "I'm gonna put him flat on his back, so that he will start acting Black; because when he was champ he didn't do as he should, he tried to force himself into an all-White neighborhood.
In February, 1967, Ali's opponent was Ernie Terrel. At the pre-fight press conferences Terrel repeatedly called Ali by his given name: Cassius Clay. Ali promised to beat Terrel until he addressed him properly.21 In a fight which Sports Illustrated described as "a wonderful demonstration of boxing skill and a barbarous display of cruelty," Ali beat Terrel while shouting, "What's my name, 'Uncle Tom,' what's my name?"
Before their first fight, on March 8, 1971, Ali called Joe Frazier an "Uncle Tom" and said that Whites would be cheering for Frazier.
He also used the slur against Joe Louis because of Louis' passive political stances.
In recent years the "Uncle Tom" slur has been directed against Christopher Darden, the Black member of the prosecution's team in the O.J. Simpson murder trial; Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer; Karl Malone, the Utah Jazz basketball player; and Colin Powell. Cornell West, the author of Race Matters and a lifelong civil rights activist, was called an "Uncle Tom" by the African United Front because of his "support" of Jews.
The "Uncle Tom" slur has even been appropriated by other ethnic groups to exert in-group pressures on their members.
A Native American, for example, who is believed to be too friendly with or admiring of Whites, is called an "Uncle Tomahawk"; Chinese Americans use the term "Uncle Tong."
Even W.E.B. DuBois, arguably the greatest, most sustained civil rights voice of the 20th
Century, was called an "Uncle Tom" -- by Marcus Garvey, who added that DuBois was "purely
and simply a White man's nigger."
http://hiphoprepublican.com/2005/11/uncle-tom-negro.html
-Lillian Hellman
The word "Uncle Tom"is a political and psychological tool which seeks to exert in-group pressures on the black community!
The Democratic party which is dominated by white leftist, will on occasions
give a wink, and a go a head to black demcratic elite to use this term.
It is used primarly against Republican blacks, who are "deemed" a threat to
the Democrat's black voting base!
Like a cult who uses terms like "apostate", or heretic,
such terms are used as means to alert the "group" to ignore
such new ideas which could threaten the conformity of its members!
The term is used as means to direct attection from the issues of debate!
By playing on cultural sensitivities, and the complex history of race in America,
the left uses such name's as political warfare!
Just a few names who have been crowned with this cowardly term!
Reverend Martin Luther King
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Thomas Sowell
Bayard Rustin
Roy Wilkens
Louis Armstong
Jackie Robinson
W.E.B. DuBois
Cornell West
Christopher Darden
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer;
Karl Malone ..Utah Jazz basketball player
Colin Powell
and the list goes on!
Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by other blacks to be servile to white authority.
An Uncle Tom is eager to win the approval of white people, or who rubber stamps white supremacist notions about the inherent superority of whites and its corollary, the inherent inferiority of blacks.
"Uncle Toms" are perceived to take the side of whites when there is an injustice against blacks. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of white author Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Black public figures who oppose affirmative action or busing are often accused of pleasing Whites only to elevate themselves -- socially, politically, and economically.
Civil rights leaders of the 1960s were called Uncle Toms by more militant Blacks.
Whitney Young, Executive Director of the Urban League from 1961 to 1971, was a "radical integrationist."
His willingness to work with Whites led to charges that he was an "Uncle Tom."
Reverend Martin Luther King's unwillingness to advocate retaliatory violence led Stokely Carmichael to accuse him of "Uncle Tomism." Bayard Rustin, one of the chief tacticians of the Civil Rights Movement, was also called an "Uncle Tom" by Black militants.
Roy Wilkens was called an "Uncle Tom" because he publicly stated that Blacks could achieve political power "in the system." Civil rights leaders were judged to be too passive, too religious, too eager to integrate -- too much like the stereotypical Version A "Uncle Tom.
" Older, more established Blacks have often been accused of being too conservative, too passive, and too desirous of White approval. In the 1950s Louis Armstong was called an "Uncle Tom" by young bebop musicians.
Sports champions, especially those who publicly express conservative political views, run the risk of being labeled "Uncle Toms." After retiring from baseball, Jackie Robinson wrote a newspaper column about civil rights issues. He was vilified in the Black community when he announced that he was a "Rockefeller Republican.
" Arthur Ashe, the tennis champion and human rights activist, was called an "Uncle Tom" for playing in the South African Open tennis tournament in 1973. His participation was seen as supporting apartheid. Muhammad Ali routinely berated his Black opponents as "Uncle Toms."
In 1965 Ali fought Floyd Patterson, a devout Christian and staunch integrationist.
Ali not only called Patterson an "Uncle Tom" and "the technicolor white hope," but he predicted: "I'm gonna put him flat on his back, so that he will start acting Black; because when he was champ he didn't do as he should, he tried to force himself into an all-White neighborhood.
In February, 1967, Ali's opponent was Ernie Terrel. At the pre-fight press conferences Terrel repeatedly called Ali by his given name: Cassius Clay. Ali promised to beat Terrel until he addressed him properly.21 In a fight which Sports Illustrated described as "a wonderful demonstration of boxing skill and a barbarous display of cruelty," Ali beat Terrel while shouting, "What's my name, 'Uncle Tom,' what's my name?"
Before their first fight, on March 8, 1971, Ali called Joe Frazier an "Uncle Tom" and said that Whites would be cheering for Frazier.
He also used the slur against Joe Louis because of Louis' passive political stances.
In recent years the "Uncle Tom" slur has been directed against Christopher Darden, the Black member of the prosecution's team in the O.J. Simpson murder trial; Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer; Karl Malone, the Utah Jazz basketball player; and Colin Powell. Cornell West, the author of Race Matters and a lifelong civil rights activist, was called an "Uncle Tom" by the African United Front because of his "support" of Jews.
The "Uncle Tom" slur has even been appropriated by other ethnic groups to exert in-group pressures on their members.
A Native American, for example, who is believed to be too friendly with or admiring of Whites, is called an "Uncle Tomahawk"; Chinese Americans use the term "Uncle Tong."
Even W.E.B. DuBois, arguably the greatest, most sustained civil rights voice of the 20th
Century, was called an "Uncle Tom" -- by Marcus Garvey, who added that DuBois was "purely
and simply a White man's nigger."
http://hiphoprepublican.com/2005/11/uncle-tom-negro.html