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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tom, Uncle Tomnoun

    (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

  2. Uncle Tomnoun

    a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wiktionary

  1. Uncle Tomnoun

    A black person who is obsequiously servile to white authority.

Wikipedia

  1. Uncle Tom

    Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as a ground-breaking humanistic portrayal of a slave, one who uses nonresistance and gives his life to protect others who have escaped from slavery. However, the character also came to be seen, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations, as inexplicably kind to white slaveholders. This led to the use of Uncle Tom – sometimes shortened to just a Tom – as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person or house negro, particularly one aware of their own lower-class racial status.

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  1. uncle tom

    "Uncle Tom" is a term originating from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In the novel, Uncle Tom was depicted as a long-suffering black slave. However, the term over time has been used pejoratively, particularly among African Americans, to describe someone who is perceived as betraying their own group or cultural identity by showing subservience or excessive deference to white people out of fear, out of a desire to get along with others, or for personal gain. It is considered a racially charged term and generally offensive.

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  1. Uncle Tom

    Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The phrase "Uncle Tom" has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group. The negative epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel.

Rap Dictionary

  1. uncle tomnoun

    A black man who acts like a willing servant to whites. From the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

  2. uncle tomnoun

    A tattle-taler; a person who befriends another only to deceive him, usually in the workplace.

Who Was Who?

  1. Uncle Tom

    An old negro actor who appeared in every city, town, village, and hamlet in the United States north of the Confederate States. His history was written by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, and was the match which kindled the Civil War. The Northerners have since learned that all negroes are not Uncle Toms, and are wondering whether any mistakes were made back in 1861.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Uncle Tom in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Uncle Tom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Uncle Tom in a Sentence

  1. Ben Carson:

    I think the way that I'm treated, you know, by the left is racism, because they assume because you're black, you have to think a certain way. And if you don't think that way, you're 'Uncle Tom,' you're worthy of every horrible epithet they can come up with; whereas, if I weren't black, then I would just be a Republican.

  2. Ben Carson:

    Because they assume because you're black, you have to think a certain way. And if you don't think that way, you're 'Uncle Tom,' you're worthy of every horrible epithet they can come up with; whereas, if I weren't black, then I would just be a Republican. i don't find any particular problem being an African-American in the Republican Party. The people??I know that in the progressive side of things, they like to say that the Republicans are racist. I know that. I haven't experienced that.

  3. Candace Owens:

    You can feel free to call me an Uncle Tom. You can feel free to call me an Auntie Tom. It does not affect me, do you want to know why? Because I actually read the book. Uncle Tom was the hero.

  4. Ben Carson:

    If you're black and you don't think a certain way as far as they are concerned, you're an Uncle Tom, a sellout, a traitor, you hate yourself.

  5. Tim Scott:

    I have experienced the pain of discrimination, i get called Uncle Tom, and the N-word by progressives, by liberals.


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