Posted on 01/11/2008 8:48:02 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
ALBANY - If you asked the bloggers yesterday, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo stepped on a rhetorical land mine when he used the racially charged phrase "shuck and jive" while discussing the Democratic presidential primary in a recent radio interview. Speaking Tuesday to the New York Post's Fred Dicker, whose show airs on Albany's Talk 1300 radio station, Cuomo said of the early primaries: "It's not a TV-crazed race. Frankly, you can't buy your way through." He added later, "You have to sit down with 10 people in a living room. You can't shuck and jive at a news conference; you can't just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you, saying 'answer the question.'" The 1994 book "Juba to Jive, a Dictionary of African-American Slang," says "shuck and jive" dates back to the 1870s and was an "originally southern 'Negro' expression for clowning, lying, pretense."
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When did “shuck and jive” become a “racially charged” phrase?
And how does that compare with someone saying that the way to stop a golfer is to take him in the back ally and kill him? Suggesting murder as a way to beat an opponent is objectionable, regardless of how you say it, so a suspension is called for.
Well we are getting way to many “racial/racist” comments ranging from Hillary (spade) Clinton to all of her supporters. The Clinton Campaign seems awash with codeword use. Almost daily. Wonder if when Jesse Sr or Rev. Al will call them on it since the MSM does not care.
Hey Charlie Rangel you on vacation or what (paid for by Hillary)?
From www.urbandictionary.com (definiton) -
3. shuck and jive
To act like a ni**er.
‘Cleon was shuckin an jivin outside da club’
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I can’t speak Jive, can we get Barbara Billingsly to translate?
Still, your point that the MSM regularly gives Democrats a pass on the kind of racial references that would get a Republican tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
Can I still refer to someone being "tarred"? It wasn't a racial idea when first said. Mark Twain said of the man who'd been tarred and feathered and put on a rail, "If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I'd rather walk."
Congressman Billybob
I’m so out of touch.
Because publicly acknowledge liberals can say whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want.
Surprised you had to ask....(chuckle)
Seriously, Cuomo junior and Cuomo senior are simply the most two overrated hacks I’ve ever seen in politics.
“Suggesting murder as a way to beat an opponent is objectionable, regardless of how you say it, so a suspension is called for.”
That’s utter nonsense.
So everybody who ever said, “Let’s murder those guys.” or “We’re going to kill ‘em.” or “We’ll beat you to a pulp.” or “You’re dead meant.” is, according to you, “suggesting murder as a way to beat an opponent.”
What a bunch of PC crap.
Can you say “Plantation”?
You probably aren’t old enough to know who Amos n’ Andy were, either.
That can be taken at least two different ways. Care to expand?
Not sure what that has to do with my point, there, Kingfish.
IMO, this is nothing but political assassination. Since when is it a crime to insult somebody?
It’s been in my vocabulary since I was po’ white South Carolina boy.
It’s from a speech Hillary made at a Dem forum. She said (IMOW) that working with the Repubs was like working on a plantation.
Brian Wilson/Jack Rieley
I need a breeze blowing softly
To keep my wind vane from standing
I need a whole lot of sunshine
To keep my sundial advancing
I need some soil ‘fore my grass will grow
I need some spark to make my candle glow
Relief I cried
Ain’t no shuck ‘n’ jive
I need a mess of help to stand alone
Depends. If you're Hillary, you can stand in a black church and say "I ain't in nooo way tarrrred," and it's all right.
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That is Ruby Begonia to you, bub! :}
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