uppity
an epithet used by white people in the Jim Crow era to describe black people they believed weren't showing them enough deference, this loaded (black women and men were lynched by white mobs for seeming too "uppity") adjective was frequently lodged against President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, usually by conservatives who claimed they were unaware of the word's racist origins. U.S. and British journalists have more recently used the term to describe Meghan Markle, who is biracial, after she became the Duchess of Sussex.
