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To: maggief

It’s in the Urban Dictionary. Deal with it.


2 posted on 10/24/2012 10:24:03 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

In the wake of Sarah’s tweet, the Urban Dictionary has already altered their definition of “shuck and jive” to have racist connotations.

More evidence that the MSM will go to great lengths to destroy Sarah Palin and promote Obama.

To shuck and jive” originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards. The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.

“Shucking and jiving” was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, “Oh, yes, Master,” and have no real intention to obey. Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of “doin’ the old shuck ‘n jive.”

It has been adopted into non-Afroamerican speech, with a reference to behavior adopted in order to avoid criticism.
In order to keep my job, I had to do the shuck and jive!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shuck+and+jive&defid=1340082


8 posted on 10/24/2012 10:45:09 AM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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