I have NO IDEA what an uncle tom is, do you? If so could you explain it to me please?

Oh yeah.  Remember the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?   Harriet Beecher Stowe? 

Basically the term defines a black man who kisses the butt of whitey.   But the book is about anti-slavery.

I always thought of Condosleeza Rice as an Auntie Tom.

The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people.^[14] These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."^[15]

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly,^[1][2] is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".^[3]

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.^[4][5][6]

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.^[7][8] It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.^[9] In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain.^[10] In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day."^[11] The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."^[12] The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."^[13]

 

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 2, 2019 10:15 AM MDT

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The term "Uncle Tom" is also used as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person, particularly when that person is aware of their own lower-class status based on race.