Hari's unfair charge

I have today been unmasked as a racist. Johann Hari of The Independent has managed to peer into my psyche and diagnose me. You see in my News of the World column (now online) I called Barack Obama “uppity”. Except, of course, I didn’t – I said that this was the charge being levied against him by his opponents. But Hari wouldn’t recognise this distinction – it spoils the fun. As he explains “Visit the South, and the word that invariably follows “uppity” is “nigger.”” Richard Littlejohn has used the u-word, and I find myself in the dock beside him. So Hari asks his jury: “The question is, are Nelson and Littlejohn really just ignorant of all this – or are they – consciously or not – racists? What do you think?

Well, CoffeeHousers, what do you think? Here’s Exhibit A, my offending paragraph.