Uppity

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, born 1950, a Georgia Republican, who called Barack Obama "uppity" now claims this:

"I've never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of 'uppity' is 'affecting an air of inflated self-esteem --- snobbish.' That's what we meant by uppity when we used it in the mill village where I grew up."

Strains credulity. Never heard the term used in a racially derogatory sense.