I wonder if she even knew what the word meant? It is not used much anymore, from what I gather.
“... it is not used much anymore...”
I agree with you.. it isn’t used much anymore. It is a dated word. I know what it means but the younger generation doesn’t. I don’t want to get into the whole story but I can say the teens/twenty something’s have never heard it before.
My father uses it, but then he’s going to be 85 years old in May. Plus, he only uses it in private conversation with me, certainly not in front of a microphone.
My guess is the anchor has had or does now have an older black boyfriend who she has heard use that while in the company of other blacks. So she listened, and she learned what to say, but not when to say it.
I’m a non-native speaker, and I have NO idea what it means. I didn’t even know it was offensive. I like that combination of consonants and vowels (ji-ga-boo) the same way I like words like dingaling and bupkis. Is there somewhere I can get a list of terms and the minority that is likely to be offended by them?
30 years ago, I went to a record store. A young black man came in wearing a shirt that said “jigaboo” on the front, and “spearchucker” on the back..We were both looking at Jazz records. I finally couldn’t contain myself! I started laughing, and asked him where he’d gotten the shirt. He started laughing too. We talked, and I found he was studying Mechanical Engineering at Case, as my Father had. Nice young man!
She probably picked it up from an old Disney cartoon. Or it was some type of term of endearment used with little kids in her family. It is a very cute sounding word. After watching the video it was quite obvious that she meant no disrespect to anyone. Why is it that any word that is associated with black people cannot be used.
My wife grew up with a black house keeper, she always called her mom and dad and the kids crackers, pork chops, whitey, white bread, and a half dozen other terms that no one cares about. Jigaboo was one of the least derogatory terms they called her and also their next door neighbor who was also black. Her dad did all the maintenance on their cars. She did housework because my wife’s mom had some medical problems. My wife said one time the house keeper wore a bright green dress to church and her dad told her with that dress on you look like a giant pile of coal in a lettuce patch. She laughed so hard that she fell to the ground.
Kristi Marie Capel (born July 7, 1983). She's like, twelve years old. That word went out of fashion before she was born.
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.
It is not used much anymore, from what I gather.....You don’t hang around my area, much. “Get off my lawn, jig or BOOM!”