Posted on 02/25/2015 1:24:12 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Cleveland TV anchor Kristi Capel has been temporarily taken off the air in the wake of using a racial slur during a live broadcast on Monday.
Cleveland.com reported that Capel did not appear on the Fox 8 morning show on Wednesday, and would not appear on Thursday or Friday of this week either. She will return to the broadcast on Monday, March 2.
While praising Lady Gaga's performance of a "Sound of Music" medley at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday, Capel said during the Monday broadcast, "It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music... She has a gorgeous voice."
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Dam Jigaboo is a very very old school term..considering her age did she even know what it was
This one is strong in the Force of Not Guilty...
Same here. Gotta have been 30+ years. I would bet serious money that few people under 50 could define it.
Kristi Marie Capel (born July 7, 1983). She's like, twelve years old. That word went out of fashion before she was born.
She was born in 1983. That word went out at the end of the 1970s.
Can't do that. I can give you a list of acceptable words, though.
It follows here:
We had black housekeepers when I was a kid, and everyone the blacks included had thicker skin 50 years back.
Lots of things we said to each other that today would be considered hate speech, I guess. When our parents were gone out we cussed each other out, literally.
Housekeepers hated us. Pretty funny.
A few years ago my mother’s girlfriend used the term “this friggen thing...” to describe something she couldn’t get to work. Unfortunately she was saying this at a church event. She had no idea it was inappropriate to use the word friggin. She had no idea. She found out quickly.
Lol. That’s why I’m forever telling my children,”never use a word that you don’t fully understand.”
If you take a pre-1960 dictionary, that will give you a great start on the offensive word list. Just begin with “A” and stop right after “Zymurgy.”
Our local high school (Pekin, Illinois) sports teams were known as the "Pekin Chinks" until 1981 when the P.C. crowd made them change it. It is now the unimaginative "Pekin Dragons".
Actually, you were right. It does mean jerk, but a really obnoxious jerk.
Well I understood that part, but evidently it also was a slur name for a Jew. Had no idea and I was raised in a community with many Jews.
That is such good advice. Another girlfriend, at a basketball game, hollered out and I’m embarrassed to even type this, she hollered out “come on pecker” to one of the basketball players. That was his nickname but she had no idea that maybe she shouldn’t holler his name out.
In the olden days many girls had no idea about these words. Now they’re sending nekkid selfies. The world has changed.
Good grief, in the olden days I was once told that if there was a problem then t.s. I had no idea what t.s. was so I asked. I was told t.s. meant tough shoveling. I believed that for many years. It was a total surprise to find out that t.s meant something else.
You could watch all of Spike Lee's movies. School Daze comes to mind.
Also, I used to know a guy that knew a perjoratve word for anyone you could think of. We were sittin’ around with a guy I used to work with that was half Portuguese and half Eskimo. The older guy looked at him and called him a “blubber-snubber.” I ‘bout fell out of my chair.
As young as she it, she probably never heard the word used in a racial context and thought it was a cool sounding word. The younger generation has a very different vocabulary. My daughter was livid when I referred to her as a “real hustler,” meaning she really work her butt off and gets things done ... she took it quite another way.
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