“I’ve never even heard the word.”
Like a lot of other things in this time of racial finger pointing, it’s a very old word that has been considered unacceptable for years. But as long as there are people, there will be efforts to create conflict...both ways.
If you are really interested in the origin, then here’s a site:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/jigaboo
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Thanks.
Another aspect of the story brought back nice memories for me.
My father loved horse racing, and routinely went to the track. When he did well, he’d come home with his pockets full of candy for the kids on the block, and two-dollar bills for me and my brother. He used to employ me to calculate from the newspaper racing results what the daily ‘number’ was. (He’s long dead and so is his bookie, so I guess it’s ok to tell that :-)
Once, he heard about a contest to win a thoroughbred foal, and to win, you had to come up with the best name for the baby.
As I recall, the sire was named ‘Porterhouse’, and the dam was ‘Lily’-something. He thought ‘Li’lFilet’ would be a good name.
I thought we should have won, dammit. (Though I have no idea what we’d have done with a racehorse...)