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To: kellynla

Like Magic Kenyan cares??? He’s out there profiling and looking good just like the rap artists he models himself after.

White buyers make these rap artists rich and white voters brought us Hussein the Kenyan. They liked his shuck and jive

What is shuck and jive??——>>>
“To shuck and jive” originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards. The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.

“Shucking and jiving” was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, “Oh, yes, Master,” and have no real intention to obey. Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of “doin’ the old shuck ‘n jive.”

Today, the expression has expanded somewhat from earlier usage, and is now sometimes used to mean “talking pure baloney,” “goofing off,” or “goofing around.” The original meaning of deceit often remains, however.


8 posted on 02/28/2009 11:49:38 AM PST by dennisw (Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
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To: dennisw

thanks for your illuminating post...never knew this.

Freeprs rule.


15 posted on 02/28/2009 12:12:00 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (" IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT !" ( just getting a head start..hee.))
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