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Using the Name “Uncle Tom”...
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:35 pm
Regarding Antonio Brown calling Ryan Clark an Uncle Tom, it amazes me the ignorance of so many people regarding the name Uncle Tom. I guarantee you more than 99% of the people who use the term have never read two pages of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19th century novel. Of course I shouldn’t be surprised, Antonio Brown tried to enroll at Florida State and was denied because he was too dumb and even tried to enroll at Alcorn State. Maybe the fool should read the book before using terms he is totally ignorant of.
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:36 pm to OGTiger
What if I have an Uncle Tom?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:36 pm to OGTiger
Feel better now?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:37 pm to TDsngumbo
I do have a Uncle Tom. 
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:37 pm to fishfighter
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I do have a Uncle Tom.
We’re cousins!
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to OGTiger
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Of course I shouldn’t be surprised, Antonio Brown tried to enroll at Florida State and was denied because he was too dumb and even tried to enroll at Alcorn State.
Damn. If only life would have worked out for him.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to OGTiger
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I guarantee you more than 99% of the people who use the term have never read two pages of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19th century novel.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to OGTiger
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I guarantee you more than 99% of the people who use the term have never read two pages of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19th century novel.
I saw Tbird's post on this, and I've got to ask - why does this matter?
Everyone knows what it means today.
ETA - Using it incorrectly is dumb, no doubt, but why to you have to read the book in order to know what the term means?
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to TDsngumbo
I have an Uncle Tom who also has a cabin
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to OGTiger
He went to Central Michigan right? How do you know he tried to enroll at Alcorn?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:38 pm to OGTiger
Chris Rock has a gay uncle named Aunt Tom
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:43 pm to OweO
Cuz wiki
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:43 pm to jchamil
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Just for the record let's get the story straight Me and Uncle Tom were fishin' it was gettin' Pretty late Out on a cypress limb above the wishin' well Where they say is got no bottom say it take You down to Hell. Over in the bushes and off to the right Come two men talking; in the pale moonlight Sheriff John Brady and Deputiy Hedge Haulin' two limp bodies down to the water's edge
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:45 pm to OGTiger
What if someone had an uncle that was really named Tom?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 3:51 pm to OGTiger
no one on this board, except for me it seems, knows what the term third world means, it is used here strictly to mean an impoverished nation, but that is not what it means
Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:28 pm to slackster
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but why to you have to read the book in order to know what the term means?
Perhaps not be culturally illiterate?
The "meaning today" is not an appropriate description of the character in the novel. The Uncle Tom in the novel had strong character qualities that should be admired not denigrated.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:30 pm to OGTiger
Way of racist AA POS to call out non-racist AA anytime they don’t agree with thier bullshite..
Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:31 pm to OGTiger
All that and i still dont know
Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:35 pm to pistolpete23
I’ve got a secret down at uncle Tom’s cabin. I’ve got a secret that I just can’t tell. I’ve got a secret down at uncle Tom’s cabin. Know who put the bodies in the wishing well.
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