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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They had their windows open and the guy yells out the window to the bus driver, "What are you drivin? A Jiggaboo Jitney?!?"
My shirt says "Creepy Ass" on the front and "Cracker" on the back.
And once a word is on the “offend” list, it will never come off.
Eventually what you can call a protected minority will comprise a shorter list than what you can’t.
In 1963, when I was 12, I lived in Savannah, Ga.
Recently I was telling my 33 YO nephew some of the colloquialisms of the time. I was surprised at how many he had never heard.
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!”
Kristi Capel — a Cleveland TV anchor and former Miss Missouri USA who used the word "jigaboo" on the air last week — returned to the air today with no mention of the incident.
"Good morning, everyone, I'm Kristi Capel," the anchor said at 4:30 a.m. to kick off the morning show on WJW (Channel 8), said a report from Cleveland.com, website for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Capel used the dated racial epithet Feb. 23 when describing music played to accompany Lady Gaga's performance on the Oscars awards telecast Feb. 22.
The station pulled her from the air for three days last week, Wednesday through Friday, after she issued an apology Tuesday. She said she didn't know the history of the word.
Capel, 31, attended Evangel University in Springfield, Mo. After graduating, she won the Miss Missouri USA 2006 title and then worked at KSPR (Channel 33) in Springfield. She has been in Cleveland since 2011.
I always enjoyed Long John Baldry's song Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll
Includes a definition of what sort of music "Boogie Woogie" music is.
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