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Wikipedia changes definition of "shuckin' and jivin'" today (10/25) after Palin use
Vanity | 10/25/2012 | Anonymous

Posted on 10/25/2012 11:09:24 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a statement on her Facebook page accusing President Obama of engaging in "shuck and jive shtick" regarding last month's attack in Benghazi, Libya.

She was immediately attacked as a racist by Mike Krumboltz of The Ticket:

"For those who aren't familiar with the phrase, "shuck and jive" is a racially-tinged expression.

This morning, I looked up "shuck and jive" on Wikipedia and saw this:

"Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is an American slang term for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously."

This afternoon, I went back to Wikipedia and saw this:

"Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is an African American slang term for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously."

Some anonymous Progressive went on Wikipedia and inserted the word "African" into the definition in order to dishonestly support the idea that Sarah Palin's use of the term is inherently racist after the fact.


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To: Mad Dawgg

Will you ever get over Macho Grande?


21 posted on 10/25/2012 11:34:36 AM PDT by Salamander (I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy...in a straight white vest.)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Somebody needs to tell Art Garfunkel he's a racist.....he has a song titled, “Mr. Shuck and Jive”.
22 posted on 10/25/2012 11:35:17 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Dr. Thorne

The miracle of the internet has allowed us to witness each stroke of the soviet airbrush in realtime.


23 posted on 10/25/2012 11:38:46 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Mygirlsmom

“I came in from Memphis, where I learned to talk the jive.” I guess the Grateful Dead are racist too, as well as Eric Clapton with “Willie and.the Hand Jive.” Oh, and how could I forget Skynyrd with “You’re talkin jive, woman when you say to me.” Where does all of this PC nonsense stop?


24 posted on 10/25/2012 11:39:00 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Mygirlsmom
"If you are of a certain age, you will appreciate this..... "

I picked a helluva week to stop sniffing glue.

25 posted on 10/25/2012 11:43:20 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
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To: Freestate316

Art Garfunkle, “Mr. Shuck n Jive”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDc9gKt9Ly4

As an aside, imagine how much power Governor Palin would have if she was relevant...


26 posted on 10/25/2012 11:44:28 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: Scoutmaster
Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a southern American slang term, that gets the people at Freerepublic's panties in a wad, for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuckin'_and_jivin'
27 posted on 10/25/2012 11:52:13 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!


28 posted on 10/25/2012 11:58:19 AM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Work for a successful 2012! +Throw the liberal garbage out!)
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The thing to do in a situation like this is to make an objective comment on the talk page documenting what changes were made and the context of the change (ie the recent Palin comment) so that there is a permanent indication of what liberal editors have done on the page.

Comments on talk pages tend to remain there forever, although they may be archived on active pages. Its good for people to stumble upon evidence like this sometime in the future.


29 posted on 10/25/2012 12:07:53 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Dr. Thorne
You can anonymously change it back, you know.

HA! Yes you can! I did this back in 2003-2004 when some idiots on Wiki wanted to change the colors of ALL electoral maps when the progs thought it would be funny as painting Republicans as the color red.
30 posted on 10/25/2012 12:24:02 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (We the People are coming!!)
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To: Elyse

Yes. A very bad girl. And now, you must be spanked.


31 posted on 10/25/2012 12:33:59 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Dr. Thorne

barry and the hand jive...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk&playnext=1&list=PLB09390C2AA69EA5F&feature=results_main


32 posted on 10/25/2012 12:36:43 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes you can amend it but if they detect controversy they check your, er, progressive credentials and you’ll soon find yourself locked out.

Been there, done that


33 posted on 10/25/2012 12:42:45 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Shouldn’t even be an issue....and as bad of the 50-60s may have been, it was changing. It took the civil rights movement to mess things up (pre CRM two parent families, literacy, percentage of college graduations were all on the rise).

“We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.”

~~ Booker T. Washington


34 posted on 10/25/2012 12:44:08 PM PDT by petro45acp (The question isn't "are you better off?" it should be "is it really the government's job?")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
We should change to read: " Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a southern American slang term for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously. Talking "jive" was made popular in the pop lexicintently the 1980s Bee Gees hit "Jive Talking" and was firmly planted in the hit movie Airplane when Barbara Billingsly declared, "excuse me stewardess, I speak jive." However, the term is widly viewed as a racial epithet when uttered by a conservative."
35 posted on 10/25/2012 12:58:31 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!r)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Wiki screen capture - Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a southern American slang term, that gets the people at Freerepublic's panties in a wad, for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously. Photobucket
36 posted on 10/25/2012 1:15:38 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Salamander
I have no idea where/when/how the phrase originated.

For years people have "shucked" corn, removing the papery husk and silk from the ears. Peas are also "shucked" from their pods. These labor intensive tasks were often accomplished by several people working together, sitting on the back porch around a washtub full of vegetables that were to be shucked of their inedible portions. Many hands made the work go quickly and gossip among the workers relieved the boredom.

I believe "jive" started as a reference to early jazz music which extended to include dance done to "jive" music. Ultimately "jive" included the people dancing to the jive music, interpreted as silly or uninhibited. The gossip then could be jive or silly talk.

Regards,
GtG

PS People used to "shuck" their clothes before skinny dipping at the 'ol swimmin' hole. Archaic English?

37 posted on 10/25/2012 1:40:59 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Java4Jay
They changed it again.


38 posted on 10/25/2012 1:43:40 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The Pravda Press has gone from 'biased' straight on through to 'utterly bizarre'.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Jive is a dance step that we've seen every week on Dancing With The Stars. It's a fast kick routine performed to a quick beat song.

Palin must have seen it performed many times over the two seasons that her daughter was on the show.

-PJ

39 posted on 10/25/2012 1:55:18 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

The shuck part I knew, having shucked my share of horse and cow corn.

Wasn’t clear on the jive except the kin did a lot of yapping as we sat around shuckin’. ....;)


40 posted on 10/25/2012 2:04:56 PM PDT by Salamander (I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy...in a straight white vest.)
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